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Condition with 'should' Wed Oct 20, 2004 20:16 pm  Condition with 'should'
 

Test No. errors/inter-9 "Conditionals", question 1

If I win the lottery, I should buy you a very big car as a present.

(a) If
(b) win
(c) should

Test No. errors/inter-9 "Conditionals", answer 1

If I win the lottery, I will buy you a very big car as a present.

Correct entry: will
The error was: (c) should
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Conditions Wed Oct 20, 2004 21:03 pm  Conditions
 

Hi,

This is the pattern:

If I win the money, I shall/will buy a car.
If I won the money, I should/would a car.
If I had won a car, I should have/would have bought a car.

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Conditions Thu Oct 13, 2005 22:09 pm  Conditions
 

Alan wrote:
Hi,

This is the pattern:

If I win the money, I shall/will buy a car.
If I won the money, I should/would a car.
If I had won a car, I should have/would have bought a car.

Alan

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Why is my answer incorrect?

If I won the lottery, I should buy you a very big car as a present.
Thanks for help:)
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Conditional I and conditional II Sat Oct 15, 2005 12:07 pm  Conditional I and conditional II
 

Katarzyna, your sentence is correct. The thing is that in this particular question we concentrate on the first conditional rather than conditional II and thanks to the forum we can discuss questions like yours too.
So, to sum it up, here are the two possible versions:

If I win the lottery, I will buy you a very big car as a present. (Conditional I)

If I won the lottery, I should/would buy you a very big car as a present.
(Conditional II)
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