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Unit 16 covers the topics of conditionals, along with direct vs. reported speech. Conditionals generally refer to \"if/then\" statements, and this unit reveals the wide variety of conditionals present in English. I had not previously considered the different ways in which conditionals are created, apart from the \"If/then\" aspect, but I had previously taken a range of logic classes during my undergraduate career, so I am familiar with how conditionals are translated into symbols and how they interact with other statements. Viewing conditionals from this other angle was especially interesting to me, and it makes me curious if the types of conditionals (zero, first, second, third, and mixed) should lead to differing results in logical proofs. The reported speech aspect of this unit was more difficult. It seems that a lot of the changes that native English speakers make between direct and reported speech are results of practiced intuition, so going through the steps of consciously making changes in verb tenses was particularly challenging, but the chart featured in the unit was very helpful.
