Reported Speech (Unit 4)
Report the sentence.
Janet: "My mom will be here tomorrow morning."
Janet said that her mom would be there the next morning.
Janet told me her mom would be there the next morning.
Janet informed me her mom would be there the next morning.
I __________ her last night. (not/see)
didn't
Bullets were fired last night at around 2am.
Passive
The _____________ conditional is used for hypothetical past situations. The ___________ is used for hypothetical present situations.
3rd/2nd
To express regrets, we can use if only/I wish + _________. This structure is very similar to the _______ conditional.
past perfect/3rd
Arthur: "I already spoke to my mom about it."
Arthur said he had already spoken to his mom about it.
While I ________ (run), the rain stopped.
was running
Squid is ______ (eat) in China.
eaten
To form the 2nd conditional, we use if + would + verb, then ___________.
To form the 3rd conditional, we use if _________, then past perfect.
past simple, would have + past participle
We can also use should have/ought to have + ________ to express regrets.
past participle.
Joyce: "I've been so busy these days!"
Joyce said she had been so busy those days.
Last year she went to Europe. The year before that she ______ (travel) to Asia.
had travelled.
Make the sentence passive.
The U.S. military has killed more than one million people in Iraq.
More than one million people (in Iraq) have been killed by the U.S. military (in Iraq).
Respond to the prompt: If I had a millionaire dollars, ......
Answers may vary. Important part is student used would.
I shouldn't have ________ (tell) her the truth.
told
Paul: "Do you eat meat?"
Paul asked me if I ate meat.
I _________ (know) him for several years.
have known (if you still know him)
knew (if you don't talk anymore)
Make the sentence active.
Spanish is spoken by about 400 million people around the world.
About 400 people around the world speak Spanish.
Respond to the prompt: If I hadn't studied what I currently study,...
I would have studied medicine, etc/I would have started working, etc.
Tell me something you shouldn't have done but you did anyway!
I shouldn't have...
The news: "there has been a pandemic going on for the past year".
The news said/they said on the news there had been a pandemic going on for the past year.
When I was a kid, I ______ (swim) on a team. I don't anymore.
used to swim/would swim/swam
The cotton gin ______________ (invent) by Eli Whitney in 1793. It ________ (patent) in 1794.
was invented/was patented
Respond to the prompt: If I was going to die tomorrow,...
I would...
Tell me one regret you have. Everybody has at least one!
I wish/If only I had/hadn't...