had If someone put together key pieces of information better, the 9/11 hijackers might have failed

^ in their mission.

 

-S-4e Mood

EXERCISE 2 / Conditional Sentences; Requests, Recommendations, and Demands. Each

of the following sentences contains errors in one or more verbs. Revise the VERB(s) in each

sentence as necessary. Answers to even-numbered items can be found at the back of the

book.

EXAMPLE

1. If John Wilkes Booth’s assassination attempt failed, would Abraham Lincoln have eventually

run for a third term as president?

2. Some scholars argue that if a Serbian nationalist had not assassinated Archduke Franz

Ferdinand of Austria in 1914, World War I would not take place.

3. If the United States did not bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, World War II might

continue longer.

4. If the Boston Red Sox did not trade Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees in 1920, would the

Red Sox have had more success?

5. If Anne Frank was alive today, how old would she be?

6. In developing Apple products, Steve Jobs insisted that design received the highest priority.

7. The 9/11 Commission Report recommended that the organization of the government

changes significantly.

8. If the emergency response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005 was smoother, the politicians

involved would have fared better in public opinion.

9. If a flu vaccine would have existed in 1918, most of the people who died in the flu epidemic

that year could have survived.

10. Even with flu shots available today, health professionals strongly suggest that everyone

washes his or her hands frequently.

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