Official Secrets

Rewrite these sentences so that they do not use the word ‘if’.

Official Secrets

Rewrite these sentences so that they do not use the word ‘if’.

1. If the terms of the treaty were made public, it would mean disaster.

2. If that does not succeed, don’t be discouraged.

3. If you get yourselves into trouble with the police, I can’t officially help you out of it.

For example

We have plenty of time to get there if we take the tube.

By taking the tube, we can get there in plenty of time.

Let’s take the tube, so we don’t need to worry about getting there in time.

Provided we take the tube...

Unless we take the tube, we’ll be cutting it a bit fine.

Sentences taken from the novels of Agatha Christie. Based on an exercise in Advanced English Exercises (1939) by NL Clay.

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