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Drag the correct phrases to help the secret agent finish the official protocol for an unlikely alien encounter.

Even if aliens landed on Earth today, our strict boss would still expect us to submit our weekly timesheets. Honestly, if I didn't need this job to pay off my spaceship loan, I would quit immediately!

Even if aliens landed on Earth today, our strict boss would still expect us to submit our weekly timesheets.

This is a classic second conditional sentence. The condition is contrary to fact (aliens landing today), so we use the past simple (landed). The imaginary consequence uses would + base verb (would still expect).

Honestly, if I didn't need this job to pay off my spaceship loan, I would quit immediately!

For negative statements in the "if" clause of a second conditional, we use did not (didn't) + base verb. The result clause continues to use would + base verb.

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