Reported Speech

Verb form in the reported speech

1. You can keep the verb form when the situation that you are
narrating is closer to the reality or more important to the the
present moment.
Juliana: I work a lot. (simple present)
Juliana said that she works a lot. (simple present)

2. You can change the verb form when the situation that you are
narrating is more distant to the reality or no so much important at
that moment.
Marta: I went to my grandparents house every weekend last year.
Marta said that she had gone to her grandparents house every weekend in the
previous year.
If Clauses: making hypothesis
• Zero conditional: situations that are always true.
If you freeze water, it turns into ice.

• If Clause I: situations that are very likely to happen.

I will play the game if  it is good.

• If-Clause II: situations that are unlikely or impossible to happen.

If I lived in Goiás, I would be a cow farmer.

• If-Clause III: situations that happened in the past and can not be changed at all.
If I had had nothing to do, I would have come.