OGE - conditionals and reported

Условные и косвенная речь

Условные

Нереальные if + прошедшее время, would (или could)

If I lived in Australia, I would surf every day

Нереальные

Реальные if + настоящее время, будущее

If I see him, I will tell him

Реальные

Примеры

“If it goes on like this, mum __________________ us a great dinner,” he said.

COOK

Kim felt a bit hurt. “It’s not polite to break off a conversation like that,” she thought to herself. If I __________________ older, I would explain to that lady how to talk to people politely.” 

BE

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“Give it to me anyway,” Bella said. “If I don’t find a proper pen, I __________________ in green ink. I hope it won’t affect my grades.”

WRITE

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“If I __________________ it now, I would be able to take part in the Professional Photograph Competition.

HAVE

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“If the weather is fine, we __________________ on a trip next weekend,” Dad said and put his magazine on the coffee table.

GO

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If we didn’t have robots, our life __________________ less comfortable and more dangerous.

BE

​Нереальное

I wish + прошедшее время

I wish I went

I wish I could

I wish

Примеры

I wish we __________________ talk about our school days for ages, but we have some other business to discuss with your mother. It’s going to be interesting for you, too.”

CAN

“I wish I __________________ my work as much as you enjoy yours,” her husband said, “ but I’m going to have just another boring day at the office.”

ENJOY

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“Look, darling,” he said, “I know it’s my birthday tomorrow but I don’t want to do anything special for it.”

Liz thought, “I wish I __________________ cancel the party but I can’t - it’s too late.

CAN

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The boss was not around. “Thank goodness,” Martin said to himself and sat down at his desk to work. The boss arrived an hour later. “Somebody hit my car and left without leaving a note,” he said angrily. “I wish I __________________ who he was.

KNOW

После слов told, said, asked, thought

Одновременное – past

Было раньше – past perfect

Будущее – would

I thought he lived there.

I thought he had eaten.

I thought she would come

Reported speech

Примеры

Mary called her cousin Vicki and asked if she __________ help with the arrangements.

CAN

All the students run into the North Sea at sunrise to celebrate the coming of spring and for good luck! One of my classmates said that the tradition __________________ him to pass his exams last summer.

HELP – HAD HELPED

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She said that we __________ well.

PERFORM

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To all my questions he said that it was a machine that __________________ fly like a bird. I was probably the only one in the family who took his words seriously.

CAN

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Judy said she ______ to try them on immediately.

Amazingly, she felt safe all through the night. In a few days the lights stopped flashing but Judy realised she didn’t feel afraid of the dark any more.

WANT

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The mechanic said they __________________ the car to find out what the problem was. He told Dylan to come back in an hour.

When Dylan came back, the mechanic said, "The problem is with the fuel pump. You need a new one. It costs $400."

TEST

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However, she was wrong. Our substitute teacher, a student two grades above, was very serious. He said that he __________________ some French poetry to us.

EXPLAIN

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Veronica’s mother had a large piece. She smiled and said that she __________________ it very much.

LIKE