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CPE Conditionals

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  • Local people will take kindly to you on condition you show consideration for their customs. UNLESS ______, local people won't take kindly to you.
    Unless you show consideration for their customs, local people won't take kindly to you.
  • Get in touch with me as soon as possible if you change your mind about the trip. SHOULD _________ trip, get in touch with me as soon as possible.
    Should you change your mind about the trip, get in touch with me as soon as possible.
  • Being able to understand the guidebook might have spared us the embarrassment of finding ourselves on a nudist beach. HAD ______ we might have been spared the embarrassment of finding ourselves on a nudist beach.
    Had we been able to understand the guidebook, we might have been spared the embarrassment of finding ourselves on a nudist beach.
  • You'll have a great time at the village carnival as long as you don't let the local wine go to your head. PROVIDED ______ go to your head, you'll have a great time at the village carnival.
    Provided you don't let the local wine go to your head, you'll have a great time at the village carnival.
  • In the event of losing your passport, contact your embassy immediately. SHOULD ______ , contact your embassy immediately.
    Should you misplace your passport, contact your embassy immediately.
  • Because of your insistence on taking the scenic route, we are hopelessly lost now. HAD ______ taking the scenic route, we wouldn't be hopelessly lost now.
    Had it not been for your insistence on taking the scenic route, we wouldn't be hopelessly lost now.
  • Suppose you found yourself penniless and stranded in a foreign city, what would be your first course of action? WERE ______ in a foreign city, what would your first course of action be?
    Were you to find yourself penniless and stranded in a foreign city, what would your first course of action be?
  • Because of the pile of work I have to do, we can't get away for the weekend. WERE ______ have to do, we could get away for the
    Were it not for the pile of work I have to do, we could get away for the weekend.
  • Due to our tight schedule, we didn't have enough time to explore the old quarter of the city. BUT ______ had more time to explore the old quarter of the city..
    But for our tight schedule, we would have had more time to explore the old quarter of the city.
  • I didn't know it was a private event, so I decided to come. HAD ______, I wouldn't have come.
    Had I known it was private event, I wouldn't have come.
  • Owing to the hospitality of the local people, our stay on the island wasn't such a nightmare. BUT ______ our stay on the island would have been a nightmare.
    But for the hospitality of the local people, our stay on the island would have been a nightmare.
  • We didn't take our language lessons seriously and, consequently, couldn't communicate with the locals. HAD ______ our attempts to communicate with local people would have met with more success.
    Had we taken our language lessons seriously, our attempts to communicate with local people would have met with more success.