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Unit 16 covers conditionals and reported speech. There are five types of conditionals: zero conditionals, first conditionals, second conditionals, third conditionals, and mixed conditionals. Zero conditionals refer to factual consequences. For example, \"When you exercise, you burn calories.\" First conditionals refer to probable future consequences. For example \"If I stay up all night, I will do poorly on tomorrow's exam.\" Second conditionals refer to a hypothetical future situation and its future consequences. For example, \"If I had wings, I could fly.\" Third conditionals refer to past hypothetical situations and their impossible consequences. For example, \"If Sansa hadn't lied, her wolf wouldn't have died.\" (But Sansa did lie) Finally, mixed conditionals refer to a consequence in the present from a situation in the past. For example, \"If I had left the stove on, my house would be on fire by now.\" Classifying sentences into conditionals allows students to gain greater confidence in their use of past and present tense. In addition to conditionals, this unit covers reported speech, in which you take a quote from someone and turn it into a sentence without quotes. In doing so, you must change the tense of the key verb, and also change words like \"tomorrow\" into \"the next day.\" It is confusing at first, but fortunately there is a chart that explains the rules, and so if you can classify the original sentence as \"past present continuos\" etc., you will be able to convert it into reported speech. Overall this chapter was challenging, but I think as I continue in the course I will only get better, because practice makes perfect.
