5 exercises — practise choosing between "even if" and "even though".
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1 / 5
Which sentence correctly uses "even if" for a hypothetical, uncertain scenario about traffic spikes?
"Even if traffic triples during the sale, the autoscaler should keep response times stable" is correct: "even if" introduces a hypothetical condition (traffic tripling is not yet a known fact), paired with present simple like a conditional clause. Option B's "even though" wrongly presents the tripling as an already-confirmed fact rather than a possible scenario. Option C shifts to past tense, which does not fit a hypothetical future condition. Option D's "even so" is a linking adverb, not a subordinator, and cannot introduce a clause this way.
2 / 5
Which sentence correctly uses "even though" to concede a known, factual limitation of a system?
"Even though the cache has a 200ms TTL, most reads still hit stale data occasionally" is correct: "even though" concedes a known, current fact (the TTL setting) before stating a contrasting result, and present simple matches this ongoing factual state. Option A's "even if" wrongly implies the TTL setting is uncertain or hypothetical rather than an established fact. Option C's "will have" incorrectly future-marks a present configuration fact. Option D shifts to past tense, implying the TTL setting no longer applies, which is not the intended meaning.
3 / 5
Which sentence correctly contrasts an uncertain future condition using "even if" versus an established fact using "even though" in the same context?
"Even if the migration fails, we can roll back; even though we already tested it twice, bugs remain possible" correctly uses "even if" for the uncertain, hypothetical failure scenario and "even though" to concede the established fact that testing already happened, before noting a contrasting risk. Option A swaps the two connectors onto the wrong clauses. Option C shifts the hypothetical clause to past tense and uses present in the factual clause inconsistently. Option D's "will fail" wrongly presents failure as an inevitability rather than a hypothetical case.
4 / 5
Which sentence correctly uses "even though" rather than "even if" because the situation described is already true?
"Even though the team already migrated to Kubernetes, some services still run on the old VMs" is correct: because the migration has already happened, "even though" is needed to concede this fact, matched with past tense ("migrated"). Option A incorrectly uses "even if", which would suggest the migration is only a possibility, contradicting "already migrated". Option C's "even if...will migrate" describes a hypothetical future migration, which contradicts the completed fact in the main clause. Option D uses present simple, which loses the completed, past nature of the migration event.
5 / 5
Which sentence correctly uses "even if" to state that an outcome holds regardless of which of two hypothetical scenarios occurs?
"Even if the retry succeeds or fails, the circuit breaker logs the attempt" is correct: "even if" naturally covers a range of uncertain hypothetical outcomes ("succeeds or fails") with present simple, showing the logging behavior holds regardless of which occurs. Option A's "even though" awkwardly implies both outcomes are simultaneously true facts, which does not fit an either/or hypothetical. Option C incorrectly future-marks the verb inside the "even if" clause. Option D shifts to past tense, which does not match the general, always-true nature of the logging rule.