Ejercicio 3 · Condicionales invertidas

Ficha 3 · Condicionales invertidas (difícil)

Elige o completa. Esto es material de C1.

1. ___ I known you were coming, I would have baked a cake.Tercer condicional: If I had known pasa a Had I known. Se quita if y se adelanta had.
2. ___ you need any further information, please contact us.Condicional formal de email: If you should need pasa a Should you need. Es la fórmula estándar de una carta formal.
3. ___ I in your position, I would accept the offer.Segundo condicional: If I were pasa a Were I. Nunca Was I en este registro.
4. Had it not ___ for your help, I would have failed.La fórmula fija es Had it not been for, equivalente a if it hadn’t been for: de no ser por.
5. Elige la única frase correcta (1).Never I have been so embarrassed.Never I was so embarrassed.Never have I been so embarrassed.Never was I been so embarrassed.Never have I been. La primera y la tercera no invierten. La cuarta mezcla was con been, que no existe.
6. Elige la única frase correcta (2).No sooner had he arrived when the meeting started.No sooner he had arrived than the meeting started.No sooner did he arrive than the meeting had started.No sooner had he arrived than the meeting started.No sooner had he arrived than. La primera usa when, que es de hardly. La segunda no invierte. La cuarta pone el past perfect en la acción equivocada.
7. Elige la única frase correcta (3).Only after she left did I find the letter.Only after she left, I found the letter.Only after did she leave I found the letter.Only after she left found I the letter.Only after she left did I find the letter. La primera no invierte, la tercera invierte la subordinada y la cuarta invierte un verbo léxico sin auxiliar, cosa que el inglés moderno no hace.
8. Elige la única frase correcta (4).Hadn’t I seen it, I wouldn’t believe it.Had I not seen it, I wouldn’t have believed it.Had not I seen it, I wouldn’t believe it.If I had not seen it, I hadn’t believed it.Had I not seen it, I wouldn’t have believed it. La negación va detrás del sujeto y sin contraer; la cuarta además rompe el tercer condicional en la principal.
9. Reescribe con inversión. She had never felt so alone. → ___ had she felt so alone.Se saca el adverbio negativo al principio y se invierte lo que ya era auxiliar: Never had she felt so alone.
10. Reescribe con inversión. We can only solve this by talking. → Only by talking ___ we solve this.Con Only by + -ing se invierte el modal de la principal: can we solve.