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Unit 16
Conditionals and Reported Speech
Conditional tenses are used to speculate about what could happen, what might happen have happened, and what we wish would happen. Most sentences using the conditional contain the word 'if'. There are two clauses, the 'if' clause and the main clause, and either can come in the first part of a conditional sentence. For example, 'If I had the money, I would buy a new car', or 'I would buy a new car if I had the money'. The 'If' clause contains the condition that has to be satisfied before the action or state in the main clause can be realised. The five main conditionals are as follows:
1. Zero conditional
2. First conditional
3. Second conditional
4. Third conditional
5. Mixed conditional
Furthermore, there are also reported or indirect speech which is usually used to talk about the past, so the tense of the words are changed. In this particular unit I have learn't so many concepts, for example I didn't know that I can report someone's words in two ways. I can use direct speech with quotation marks ("I work in a bank"), or we can use reported speech (He said he worked in a bank.)
Additionally, in reported speech tenses, word-order and pronouns may be different from those in the original sentence. For example:
Direct speech: "I travel a lot in my job"
Reported speech: He said that he travelled a lot in his job.
