1. She was angry with him; otherwise she wouldn’t say such offending words.
2. I would came at once if you were really ill.
3. Even if her things were packed, she couldn’t have been in time for the train.
4. But for Dick’s bad manners he wouldn’t have produced an unfavourable impression.
5. I need his help. Oh, that he had come soon.
6. Have a talk with a lawyer. He will help you. In your place I would’ve consulted him.
7. I’m so much obliged to your father. If it hadn’t been he I’d never had caught up with the group.
8. Oh, if they had offer an extra ticket!
9. Did he stay in bed? – Yes, he did. And what if he didn’t? – He wouldn’t have had complications now.
10. It’s high time her ring me up.
11. Mary brought her little son to the picnic but I wish she didn’t.
12. I’d rather you hadn’t scold me.
13. It was such a nice pair of shoes. Oh, if I had money with me!
14. I wish there were more bananas here. Could you go and buy some?
15. You’d better not to wait here.
16. If it hadn’t been the darkness, he wouldn’t have stumbled.
17. It looks as if he had worked for the whole day and is too tired now.
18. It was high time she had known his telephone number.
19. Did Jim learn to play a musical instrument? – No, but I wish he did.
Open the brackets, using the correct form of the oblique moods.
On Thursday morning at breakfast Steven said: “It’s high time you (to make up) your mind about that visit to “Four Winds” this weekend. We ought to go, you know. We haven’t been at the Marshalls’ for ages; we just can’t put them off.”
“But, Steven,” said Ruth ill – temperedly, “I can’t go. If my grey dress (not to send) to the cleaner’s I (can) wear it. But I can’t wear my new suit, it’s not hot enough for it yet.”
Steven finished his food and was looking through his mail.
“Why treat it as if it (to be) a serious problem? Why make such a fuss about nothing? At “Four Winds” everyone wears just anything.”
Opening a letter he added: “really, you’re a most annoying person, Ruth. What I want to know is, can you go or can’t you?”
“I can if you can. You know that.”
“I’m not sure yet how busy I’ll be tomorrow. I suggest that you (to go down) tomorrow afternoon. George (to pick) you up and (to drive) you down if you (to agree) to go tomorrow. And I’ll turn up in the evening, if I can get away, or on Saturday morning at the latest.”
“Oh, no,” Ruth laid down her knife and fork. “I wish we (to go) there together.”
“I wish you (to go) ahead.”
“I’m not going without you,” Ruth said firmly. But for you they (not to ask) me to come, anyway. They only ask me because I’m your wife. And it looks as if Marion (to hate) me. I wish you (to ring) them up yesterday and (to tell) them that I’m coming with you.”
(After “Thursday Afternoons” by M. Dickens)
