📖 Revision Guide — Grade 11 English
The traps this bank targets.
- Past perfect: had + V3 = the earlier past event (by the time...).
- Conditionals: 1 real: If + present, will · 2 unreal: If + were, would · 3 unreal past: If + had V3, would have V3.
- stop to do = pause in order to · stop doing = quit. remember to do vs remember doing same idea.
- fewer + countable · less + uncountable. between two · among three+.
- affect verb · effect noun.
- Reported speech: tense back-shift + time words shift (tomorrow → the next day).
- Modals of deduction: must = certain · might = possible · can't = certainly not.
🔁 Conditional map
| Type | If-clause | Main clause | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | present | will + inf. | real future |
| 2 | past (were) | would + inf. | unreal present |
| 3 | had + V3 | would have V3 | unreal past |
had + V3past perfect
Stop to dopause in order
Stop doingquit
⏪ Reported speech shifts
| Direct | Reported |
|---|---|
| am / is | was |
| will | would |
| today | that day |
| tomorrow | the next day |
fewer carscountable
less trafficuncountable