10°) Passive voice with modals (unit 19): "There's nothing you can make, That can't be made" (The Beatles - All you need is love)

This sentence it's an example of passive voice with modals. After the modal the passive is formed with be + past participle of the verb. In this example, can't with the passive to express future possibility or impossibility (in this case, impossibility).

9°) Adjective clause: "Ronaldo, who joined Real from Manchester United in 2009 for £80m, said he had reached an "unbelievable" level on the pitch over the "last eight years" and wants to continue playing for another five or six seasons." (segment of interview of BBC with Cristiano Ronaldo, after he realese his film).

This sentence it's an example of adjective clause. In this example, "who" refer to people (in this case, Cristiano Ronaldo). This adjective clause is called nonidentifying or nonrestrictive, because give an additional information about the noun it refers to. The information is not necessary to identify the noun. And, in writing, a nonidentifying adjective clause is separated from the rest of the sentence by commas.

8º) Conclusions about the past (unit 17): "I must've called a thousand times to tell you i'm sorry, for everything that I've done" (Adele - Hello)

This sentence it's an example of a conclusion about the past. Is formed by subject + modal (in this case, must) + have + past participle of the verb. Use "must have" when you are almost certain about your conclusions.

7º) Modals: "You should go and love yourself" (Justin Bieber - love yourself)

This sentence it's an example of modals. The modal "should" express social functions such as giving advice. In this case, one person give an advice for other to go and love yourself. Probably, they had any relationship.

6º) Passive voice: "When the boy was born, like all spartans, he was inspected." (segment of the film "300")

This sentence it's an example of passive voice because the focus is on the object (the person receiving the action). The passive is formed with a form of be (was, in this example) + past participle of the verb.

5°) Indirect speech: "In an interview with BBC ahead of the realese of his film on monday, Ronaldo said he had reached a level from where it is "not easy to improve" (segment of interview of BBC with Cristiano Ronaldo, after he realese his film).

This sentence it's an example of indirect speech (reported speech) because report what a speaker said without using the exact words. It's formed by the subject + said (that) + what be said.


Direct speech: "He said: "I don't need to say 'I'm in the history of football, I'm a legend'. The numbers say everything."" (segment of interview of BBC with Cristiano Ronaldo, after he realese his film).

This sentence it's an example of direct speech (quoted speech) because states the exact words that the speaker used. It's formed by quotation marks before the speech (he said).

4°) Third conditional: "If I hadn't forgotten my phone, I wouldnt have been on the roda a that time" (segment of the series "once upon a time")

This sentence it's an example of third conditional because use the the past perfect in the "if clause" and use would have + past participle. This conditional talk about past unreal conditions and their imagined or impossible results. In this example the "if clause" gives the unreal condition and the "result clause" gives the unreal result of that condition.