2. QUANTIFIERS O SOME/ANY
IN GRAMMAR, A QUANTIFIER IS A WORD OR PHRASE SUCH AS `PLENTY' OR `A LOT' WHICH
YOU USE TO REFER TO A QUANTITY OF SOMETHING WITHOUT BEING PRECISE. IT IS OFTEN
FOLLOWED BY `OF', AS IN `A LOT OF MONEY'.
EJEMPLOS:
He has a lot of books. (Tiene muchos libros.)
Nombre contable:
Play
He does not have a lot of books. (No tiene muchos libros.)
Nombre incontable:
Play
I have lots of money. (Tengo mucho dinero.)
Nombre incontable:
Play
I do not have a lot of money. (No tengo mucho dinero.)
4. Prepositions of place
Prepositions are a party of English hardest learn to speakers of Spanish language. It
is therefore advisable to store the different variations and uses depending on
whether we talk about prepositions of place, movement or time.
EJEMPLO:
The pen is on the table. (El bolígrafo está sobre la mesa.)
• They have a photograph of Paris on the Wall. (Tienen una foto de París en la
pared.)
• I am on the bus. (Estoy en el autobús.)
• Her apartment is on the second floor. (Su departamento está en la segunda
planta.
5. EJERCICIO
Q1 of 5: The table is below the window. The window is _______ the table.
behind
above
between
by
6. TIME PREPOSITION
Grammar A word governing, and usually preceding, a noun or pronoun and expressing a
relation to another word or element in the clause, as in “the man on the platform,” “she
arrived after dinner,” “what did you do it for?”.
EJEMPLO:
I arrived after them. (Llegué después de ellos.)
•We will see you after the movie. (Te veremos después de la película.)
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They arrived before me. (Llegaron antes que yo.)
•Call me before one. (Llámame antes de la una.)
7. EXERCISE
Completa las siguientes cuestiones y haz clic en el botón -Corregir Ejercicio- para
obtener la corrección de este ejercicio.
Q1 of 6: Write the sentence in the negative: He has got a car.
Q2 of 6: Write the sentence in the interrogative: You have 2 brothers.
Q3 of 6: Write the sentence in the interrogative: You have got a dog.
Q4 of 6: Write the sentence in the negative: She has a big house.
Q5 of 6: Write the sentence in the negative: We have a cat.
8. PRESENT PERFECT SIMPLE
Es un tiempo verbal del presente, el cual es usado en diferentes casos, aunque de manera
general, puedo decir que es mayormente utilizado para enlazar, mediante una oración, el
presente en que se vive, con un pasado de…
EXAMPLE:
Ejemplo:
He has bought new trainers and now he plays even better than before.
Ejemplo:
He has never lost a match.
The referee has not blown the final whistle yet.
The other team has not scored a goal so far.
•Ejemplo:
He has just scored a goal.
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9. EXERCICE
Put the verbs into the correct form (present perfect simple).
I (not / work) today.
We (buy)_______ a new lamp.
We (not / plan) __________our holiday yet.
Where (be / you)_________ ?
He (write)_________ five letters.
She (not / see)__________ him for a long time.
(be / you)______ at school?
School (not / start)________ yet.
(speak / he) to his boss?
No, he (have / not)__________ the time yet.
10. REPORTED SPEECH
Reported speech is speech which tells you what someone said, but does not use
the person's actual words: for example, `They said you didn't like it', `I asked
him what his plans were', and `Citizens complained about the smoke‘
EXAMPLE
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"Do you have a pen I could borrow," he asked. ("¿Tienes un bolígrafo que puedas prestarme?," él
preguntó.)
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Alice said, "I love to dance." (Alice dijo, "Me encanta bailar.")
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Chris asked, "Would you like to have dinner with me tomorrow night?" (Chris preguntó, "¿Te gustaría
cenar conmigo mañana por la noche?")
•I am going to London next week," she said. ("Voy a Londres la semana que viene," ella dijo.)
11. EXERCISE
Q1 of 10: "I'm hungry," Tom said.______________
Q2 of 10: Sarah asked, "Are you busy tonight?
_________________
Q3 of 10: "I am working in a hospital," she said.
_____________
12. PAST TENSE OF ´THERE IS/THERE ARE
The past tense is a grammatical tense whose principal function is to place an
action or situation in past time. In languages which have a past tense, it thus
provides a grammatical means of indicating that the event being referred to took
place in the past. Examples of verbs in the past tense include the English verbs
sang, went and was.
In some languages, the grammatical expression of past tense is combined with the
expression of other categories such as mood and aspect (see tense–aspect–mood).
Thus a language may have several types of past tense form, their use depending on
what aspectual or other additional information is to be encoded. French, for
example, has a compound past (passé composé) for expressing completed events,
an imperfect for expressing events which were ongoing or repeated in the past, as
well as several other past forms.
13. EXAMPLE
•There is a store round the corner.
Hay una tienda a la vuelta de la esquina.
•There are two houses near the station.
Hay dos casas cerca de la estación.
•There are three schools in this town.
Hay tres escuelas en esta ciudad.
•There was a party last night.
Hubo una fiesta anoche.
•There was a kitten in the basket.
Había un gatito en la canasta.
•There is a lighthouse on the beach.
Hay un faro en la playa.
14. EXERCISE
0 there is - there are English Grammar rules and explanations
01 there is There is and there are: Fill in the gaps
02 there are Choose there is and there - grammar exercise
03 There is / there are? Exercises for there is and there are
04 there is or there are There is and there are - fill in the gaps
05 There is or there are Exercises for there is and there are
06 questions is there / are there Write questions with there is and there are
15. INTRODUCTION TO THE POSSIVE VOICE
Passive voice is a grammatical voice common in many languages. In a clause with
passive voice, the grammatical subject expresses the theme or patient of the main
verb – that is, the person or thing that undergoes the action or has its state
changed.[1
EXAMPLE
Q1 of 10: Mark Twain wrote "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" in 1876.
Q2 of 10: They make many movies in Hollywood.
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The house was built in 1975. (La casa fue construida en 1975.)
•Play
My wallet has been stolen. (Ha sido robada mi cartera.)
•Play
The room will be cleaned while we are out. (Se limpiará la habitación mientras estemos fuera.)
•he speech is written for the president. (El discurso está escrito para el presidente.)
16. ADVERBS OF FREQUENCY
Adverbs of Frequency are Adverbs of Time that answer the question "How
frequently?" or "How often?". They tell us how often something happens.
examples:
daily, weekly, yearly
often, sometimes, rarely
EXERCISE
He listens to the radio. (often) ____________
17. PREPOSITIONS ´FOR SINSE´
s a preposition (followed by a noun): Everything has changed so much since last
spring.
as an adverb (without a following noun): She left home in 1993 and hasn’t been
seen since.
EJEMPLOS
I will tell you a story about a lion.
Above
The plane flies above the clouds.
Absent
Emma was absent yesterday.
Across
They walked across the field.
After
Read more at
18. EXERCISE
A quantity of time includes a unit of time: a minute, hour, week, month, etc. It
may also include a modifier such as now or so far, long, short, a few,many,
several, these past few, these past several
fifteen minutes a quarter of an hour
forty eight hours several hours
two days a couple of days
a week seven days now
a month a month so far
two years two long years (long or short)
two summers two summers ago (*Avoid using ago.)
two centuries
19. PAST SIMPLE OF ´CAN´
El “Could”, es la forma pasada del verbo “Can”, y es utilizado como auxiliar para
expresar una habilidad que se poseía en un tiempo anterior al que está
transcurriendo, así como también para exponer una posibilidad pero de manera más
indirecta que el “Can” y finalmente, es muy útil para pedir permiso u otras cosas
pero de una manera mucho más formal y amable que en su forma presente, debido a
que como se estudió en el apartado anterior, se trata de un verbo o auxiliar modal.
EXAMPLES
I'll be able to go to the beach (futuro).
Podré ir a la playa.
They have been able to find a parking place (present perfect).
Han podido encontrar un lugar para aparcar.
20. EXERCISE
1 I___________ give you a lesson this evening.
2 Do you think one day people __________.
to travel to the stars?
3 I ________________________
do the shopping this week.
4 We were very busy last week but we
do all we ____________had to.
5 You _____________________
get a better job if you'd work harder.
