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REPORTED SPEECH
This document provides a brief review of reported speech, second conditional sentences, and wishes. It gives examples of changing direct speech into reported speech for statements, commands, and requests. It also provides examples of type 2 conditional sentences and how to express wishes about present and hypothetical situations. The document aims to review these key grammar structures in English.
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REPORTED SPEECH
- 1. Brief Review Reported speech, 2ndconditional & wishes.
- 2. Reported Speech: Statements. I love drivingmy car every day. • Joe said that… he loved driving his car every day. • Joe said that… he would go to Cancun that weekend. I will go to Cancun this weekend. • Joe said that… he hadn´t visited his mom for years. • Joe said that… he could smoke 20 cigarettes per day. I can smoke 20 cigarettes per day. I haven´t visited my mom for years.
- 3. Reported Speech: Statements. that… •Ana said she wanted to go to Michoacán. • Ana said that… she was going to have a lot of fun that day. • Ana said that… she should eat corundas the following day. I should eat corundas tomorrow. I want to go to Michoacán. I am going to have a lot of fun today.
- 4. Reported Speech: Commands& Requests Open your student book, please. Don´t use your cell phone in the classroom!! Don´t chew gum in the classroom, please . REMEMBER: Ask For requests Tell For commands • The teacher asked us… to open our student book. • The teacher told Julia… not to use her cell phone in the classroom. • The teacher asked Juan… not to chew gum in the classroom.
- 5. Reported Speech: Statements. Snoopy saidthat… he thought it was going to rain soon. I think it´s going to rain soon.. I hate when it rains… Woodstock said that… He hated when it rained.
- 6. Conditional Sentences: Type 2 IfI had a new car… If I were older… If we didn´t study.. If I could fly… The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears. (Native American proverb)
- 7. Conditional Sentences: Type 2 “Ifeveryone on earth just stopped breathing for an hour, the greenhouse effect would no longer be a problem.” Jerry Adler “If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.” Voltaire
- 8. Conditional Sentences: Type 2 “Ifthere were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.” (Charles Dickens) “If women didn’t exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.” Aristotle Onassis
- 9. If this soda werecolder… Conditional Sentences: Type 2 If I exercised every day… If I didn´t drink so much beer… We would have a better life if…
- 10. Wishes: I wish… WISH+ Past simple To make a wish about a Present situation which we would like to be different. I wish I had more time to read. I wish I had a huge bowl of food to eat today. We wish we had a longer vacation. We wish we drank a lot of “margaritas”. We wish we sunbathed all day.
- 11. WISH + COULD+ base form To express regret about something we cannot do at present. I wish I could help you! I wish I could understand chinese. I wish Maria could cook better.
- 12. Complete the followingsentences correctly. 1. The weather´s terrible today. I wish it ________ (be) a bit warmer. 2. It really annoys me that you never do anything around the house! I wish you_______(wash up) from time to time. 3. The last bus always seems to leave early. I wish the driver ________ (wait) until the right time before leaving. 4. We are all living in a small flat. I wish we ____________(be) in a big flat. 5. John wishes he ______(have) a car. 6. I don´t understand this point of grammar. I wish I ________ (understand). 7. I speak terrible English. I wish I ________ (speak) English well. 8. I miss my friends. I wish my friends _______ (be) here right now. 9. I never win at chess. I wish I _________(win) a game occasionally. 10. She´s late again. I wish she ________(be) late all the time.
- 13. 1. The weather´sterrible today. I wish it were (be) a bit warmer. 2. It really annoys me that you never do anything around the house! I wish you washed up (wash up) from time to time. 3. The last bus always seems to leave early. I wish the driver waited (wait) until the right time before leaving. 4. We are all living in a small flat. I wish we were living (be) in a big flat. 5. John wishes he had (have) a car. 6. I don´t understand this point of grammar. I wish I understood (understand). 7. I speak terrible English. I wish I spoke (speak) English well. 8. I miss my friends. I wish my friends were (be) here right now. 9. I never win at chess. I wish I won(win) a game occasionally. 10. She´s late again. I wish she weren´t (be) late all the time.