Reported Speech (with answers)

Mixed tenses, (key included)

Conditional Sentences

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Reported Speech:statements

If we report what another person has said, we usually do not use the speaker’s exact words (direct speech), but reported (indirect) speech. Therefore, you need to learn how to transform direct speech into reported speech. The structure is a little different depending on whether you want to transform a statement, question or request.

Statements

When transforming statements, check whether you have to change:

- Pronouns

- Time and Place adverbs

- Verbal tenses

EXAMPLES:

"I study English"-- He said that he studied English

"I went to London in 2013"-- She said that she had been to London in 2013

"We'll watch TV"-- They said that they would watch TV

TIME AND PLACE CHANGES

Let's start with some easy exercises: check them below

Exercises  1 /  2 /  3  /  4  /  5  /  6  /  7  /  8  /  9  /  10

Take a look at this listening activity now to practise this skill. You've got some activites below (reordering and True/False)

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Third Conditional

We make the third conditional by using the past perfect after 'if' and then 'would have' and the past participle in the second part of the sentence:

• if + past perfect, ...would + have + past participle

It talks about the past. It's used to describe a situation that didn't happen, and to imagine the result of this situation.

• If she had studied, she would have passed the exam (but, really we know she didn't study and so she didn't pass)
• If I hadn't eaten so much, I wouldn't have felt sick (but I did eat a lot, and so I did feel sick).
• If we had taken a taxi, we wouldn't have missed the plane
• She wouldn't have been tired if she had gone to bed earlier
• She would have become a teacher if she had gone to university
• He would have been on time for the interview if he had left the house at nine (http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/third-conditional.html)

You can practise this kind of conditionals with the exercises below:

Exercise 1,  2,  3,  4,  5,  6,  7,  8,  9,  10

Now, once you have finished with the third conditional, do the following exercises to practise all conditional patterns: click on the following link

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