Mastering English Grammar: Conditionals, Passive Voice, Reported Speech & More

Posted on Feb 26, 2025 in Administration and Management

English Grammar Exercises

First Conditional

  1. If you heat water, it boils.
  2. If it keeps raining, we won’t be able to go out.
  3. Unless the chair is comfortable, I won’t buy it.
  4. I will call you if I have time.
  5. If you rent a car, you will have more freedom.
  6. Unless you give me the keys, I won’t arrive on time.
  7. Come here if you need help.

Second Conditional

  1. Sharon wouldn’t have any problems if she listened to advice.
  2. Lisa will have a great time if she goes to the party.
  3. If I asked you to help, would you do it?
  4. If they go to bed late, they will probably oversleep.
  5. Maggie would know the answer if she paid attention.
  6. What would you do if you didn’t have to work?
  7. Henry made a mistake.

Third Conditional

  1. We would have been on time if we had accepted the earlier offer.
  2. Would you have married him if he had asked you?
  3. Robert wouldn’t have crashed the car if he had driven more carefully.
  4. If it had cost more, I wouldn’t have bought it.
  5. They would have opened the store if they had been ready.

Third Conditional Combined Phrases

  1. If I had had enough money, I would have taken a vacation.
  2. If she hadn’t overslept, the teacher wouldn’t have told her off.
  3. If they had planned their holiday, it wouldn’t have been a disaster.
  4. If I hadn’t had to study maths in the evening, I wouldn’t have missed my favourite programme.

Unless

  1. I’ll pay you at the end of the month unless you disagree.
  2. Unless you come back soon, we won’t wait for you.
  3. I wouldn’t help them unless they asked me.
  4. We won’t be able to go to the concert unless we can find a baby-sitter for tonight.
  5. Unless he is encouraged more, he won’t keep on studying.

Passive Voice

  1. The flight was cancelled because of the storm.
  2. The workshop is being used by the children to build a birdhouse.
  3. You will be given more information tomorrow morning.
  4. A limousine has been hired for the wedding.
  5. Your plans should be changed immediately.
  6. Are the cats fed by Susan every day?
  7. The results were being announced by the local radio station.
  8. The roof had to be mended.
  9. I will be given two tickets for the concert if I volunteer.
  10. The Sistine Chapel was painted by Michelangelo.
  11. The song ”Imagine” was composed and sung by John Lennon.
  12. The film Psycho was directed by Hitchcock.
  13. Many fables were written by Aesop.
  14. Radium was discovered by Curie.

Changing Its Meaning (Passive Voice)

  1. I have been shown all their best photographs.
  2. We should be given information about what we have to do to apply for the job.
  3. She was offered a good salary.
  4. They have already been paid.
  5. The children are being sent to a summer camp.
  6. He will be told the truth.
  7. The police weren’t informed about the incident.
  8. I haven’t been sent an invitation.
  9. You will be taught how to do it.

Two Different Ways (Passive Voice)

  1. She should be offered a lift. – A lift should be offered to her.
  2. She was sent a present. – A present was sent to her.
  3. We were shown his new flat. – His new flat was shown to us.
  4. I have been given two months to complete the project. – Two months have been given to me.

Reported Speech

  1. My mother said to me that she couldn’t take me to the station that day because my father had the car.
  2. He said that he had left his wallet there the day before.
  3. The travel agent said that a tour guide would be waiting for us at the airport.
  4. They said that they would sell olive oil.
  5. He said that he was starting his own business.
  6. They said that they had been walking all day long and they were really tired.
  7. They said that the shops hadn’t closed the day before afternoon, so they had gone shopping.
  8. She said that she hadn’t worked last night; she had been watching TV.
  9. He said that he shouldn’t drive his father’s car without his permission.

Commands (Reported Speech)

  1. He told us not to touch those wires, they were dangerous.
  2. She told me to be home by 10 o’clock.
  3. She told Doris to try this cheesecake, it was a new recipe.
  4. The teacher told us not to write more than 100 words in our composition.
  5. She told me to answer the phone, she was busy.
  6. She told Eva to be careful, she may be making a mistake.
  7. He told me not to tell anyone, it was a secret.
  8. He told me to give him a lift, he was in a hurry.
  9. He told me to stop there.

Questions (Reported Speech)

  1. She asked if she liked playing chess.
  2. She asked who had telephoned me the day before.
  3. She asked where he had spent the weekend before.
  4. She asked if he had gone to the dentist yet.
  5. She asked if he had been there the day before or was he there that day.
  6. She asked how long I had been waiting for him.
  7. She asked how many languages the applicant spoke.
  8. She asked if I enjoyed the night before party.
  9. She asked if I had ever been abroad.

Relative Pronouns

Who – person

Which – things, animals

Where – places

Whose – possessives (whose)