Which Conditional? - Englicious

Question 1

We're eating breakfast and we're trying to decide what to do today.

First: If it snows today, we'll build a twenty-foot snowman

Second: If it snowed today, we would build a twenty-foot snowman

Third: If it had snowed today, we would have built a twenty-foot snowman.

You've just discovered your grandmother stealing money from your mother's purse.

First: I won't tell anyone if you give me half of it.

Second: I wouldn't tell anyone if you gave me half of it.

Third: I wouldn't have told anyone if you had given me half of it.

Your friend has just fallen out of a tree and hurt his leg.

First: You won't hurt your leg if you tie a short rope between the tree and your neck.

Second: You wouldn't hurt your leg if you tied a short rope between the tree and your neck.

Third: You wouldn't have hurt your leg if you had tied a short rope between the tree and your neck.

A UFO has landed in your back yard, and some little purple aliens are coming out.

First: If they speak English, I'll try to sell them my brother's car.

Second: If they spoke English, I would try to sell them my brother's car.

Third: If they had spoken English, I would have tried to sell them my brother's car.

You're at a restaurant and you see a mouse running across the floor.

First: If I am a cat I will catch that mouse and eat it for a snack.

Second: If I were a cat I would catch that mouse and eat it for a snack.

Third: If I had been a cat I would have caught that mouse and eaten it for a snack.

Your sister has just told you that she's dating a man with two heads.

Zero: That's a little strange, but if he likes basketball, then he's an okay guy.

First: That's a little strange, but if he likes basketball, then he'll be an okay guy.

Third: That's a little strange, but if he had liked basketball, then he would've been an okay guy.

Your friend Markie-poo has once again spilt hot chocolate on your shoes.

Zero: If you are a robot I take you apart and try to fix you.

Second: If you were a robot I would take you apart and try to fix you.

Third: If you had been a robot I would have taken you apart and tried to fix you.

Your sister has just told you that the man with two heads has left forever to live on the Moon, and that he didn't like basketball.

First: That's a little strange, but if he likes basketball, then he'll be an okay guy.

Second: That's a little strange, but if he liked basketball, then he'd be an okay guy.

Third: That's a little strange, but if he had liked basketball, then he would've been an okay guy.