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Conditional, Reported Speech, Modal Verbs - Key

The document provides examples and exercises for conditional sentences, reported speech, and modal verbs. It includes joining sentences to form conditionals, putting verbs in the correct form for reported speech, completing conditional sentences with possible answers, changing direct to reported speech, and substituting modal verbs in example sentences.

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Conditional, Reported Speech, Modal Verbs - Key

The document provides examples and exercises for conditional sentences, reported speech, and modal verbs. It includes joining sentences to form conditionals, putting verbs in the correct form for reported speech, completing conditional sentences with possible answers, changing direct to reported speech, and substituting modal verbs in example sentences.

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CONDITIONAL, REPORTED SPEECH, MODAL VERBS – KEY

CONDITIONAL SENTENCES
Join the sentences to make a conditional:
- If I hadn’t been ill, I would have come to class.
- He would improve his speaking mark if he spoke English.
- Peter couldn’t have gone to London if his parents hadn’t allowed
him to go.
- If you go to bed early, you will feel perfectly.
- If he didn’t teach French perfectly, he wouldn’t be a good teacher.
- If she hadn’t brought a present, she wouldn’t have given it to him.

Put the verbs into the correct form:


- would be/didn’t do
- had lost/would have felt
- reads/will cry
- will drink/doesn’t look at
- were/would study
- would have learnt/had lived

Complete the following sentences:


(Multiple answers are possible)
- If I made a cake, I would invite you to have a coffee.
- I would have felt angry if you hadn’t passed your Maths test.
- If I didn’t think about it, I wouldn’t be as stressed as I am.
- Will you wear an umbrella in case it rains?
- Would you mind if I use your telephone, please?
- If he had taken my advice, he wouldn’t have sold his car.
- If you had split pizza into parts, there would have been enough food
for the three of us.
- The sun will shine unless it starts raining.
- If she sleeps a lot, she won’t be able to get to work on time.
REPORTED SPEECH
- She said she had left home the day before.
- He said he was singing then.
- He said they wouldn’t sit there.
- They asked if he had ever ridden a horse.
- He asked if I would have met him two days after.
- He said his brother wrote a novel.
- He said he was going to see a lot of monuments in Cáceres.
- She asked if the boss had to speak with her.
- They asked why they couldn’t build that bridge.
- He ordered not to close the window because it was hot.
- He begged me to tell my mother to look for him.
- He ordered to start with my homework then.
- They said they could fail English if they didn’t study.
- He said he would be buying a new house the following month.
- They said they hadn’t caught the thieves.
- He said he had been bringing a present for his sister an hour before.
- He suggested opening the door.
- He suggested going to have a good day.
- He apologized for not having time to speak to us.
- He begged me to help him with his luggage.
- He suggested that I go to the party with him.

CHANGE USING A MODAL VERB


- He may study in Barcelona.
- He can’t go abroad.
- He must travel to India.
- They must have started a degree.
- You mustn’t use mobile phones.
- You have to speak English in class.
- He shouldn’t have come.
- You don’t have to/needn’t begin now because you can do it
tomorrow.
- You didn’t have to teach me because I knew it.

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