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This unit focuses on two aspects: Conditionals and Reported Speech. Conditionals are sentences that contain \"if\" or \"when\" which refer to past, present or future possibilities. There are two clauses in a conditional: the \"if\" clause and the main clause. The if clause states the condition which has to be satisfied before the action or state in the main clause can be realized. Either clause can be be the first clause of the sentence. An example of a conditional is: \"if I had the money, I would buy a new house.\" There are five main conditionals: zero, first, second, third and mixed. Zero conditionals refer to irrefutable facts, and an example of a zero conditional is: \"when you boil water, you get steam.\" The first conditional focuses on a \"real\" situation in the possible future or the probable or even the certain future, once the condition has been satisfied. An example of the first conditional is: \"if he studies hard, he will pass the test.\" The second conditional communicates a present or future unreal or hypothetical situation that is presently not true and is unlikely ever to be true. \"If I won the lottery, I would travel the world\" is an example of a second conditional sentence. The third conditional refers to a hypothetical past action and a hypothetical past consequence, such as \"If I had practiced the piano, I would have been better.\" A mixed conditional sentence is: \"If I had listened to him, I would be in serious trouble now.\" The other aspect that this unit considers is Reported Speech. An example of reported speech is when someone relays what someone else is saying or has said to a third party. The actual words of the person talking are referred to as actual speech or direct speech, while the repeated words are called reported speech or indirect speech. The process of reported speech requires that the form of the verbs must change to make sense of the repeating of the original speech. For example, if the direct speech is spoken as present simple, then the tense must be changed in the reported speech to past simple. The same change of tense occurs with present continuous (changed to past continuous), present perfect (changed to past perfect), present perfect continuous (changed to past perfect continuous), and so on.
