Guía de Síntesis 10° N°1
Guía de Síntesis 10° N°1
Guía de Síntesis 10° N°1
There are many adjectives that we have in English that end in -ED or -ING.
Compare differences:
You can use these adjectives to describe people or situations but be careful that
you are using the correct adjective.
BRAIN EXAM
Power Paper
Death Preparation
Drain Result
Disorder Revision
Teaser Stress
Short-term deadline
Effective strategy
Process information
Recycle material
Pass a test
Long-term memory
Fail an exam
Examples:
2. Infinitives are the "to" form of the verb. The infinitive form of "learn" is "to learn."
You can also use an infinitive as the subject, the complement, or the object of a
sentence.
Examples:
Examples:
3. Both gerunds and infinitives can be used as the subject or the complement of a
sentence. However, as subjects or complements, gerunds usually sound more like
normal, spoken English, whereas infinitives sound more abstract. In the following
sentences, gerunds sound more natural and would be more common in everyday
English. Infinitives emphasize the possibility or potential for something and sound
more philosophical. If this sounds confusing, just remember that 90% of the time,
you will use a gerund as the subject or complement of a sentence.
Examples:
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7. Gerunds are used after prepositions. Most commonly, these are "verb +
preposition" combinations. You don't have to memorize these resources, you just
need to remember that gerunds are used after prepositions!
Examples:
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They are Auxiliary verbs that provide additional and specific meaning to the main
verb of the sentence.
Modal Verbs are sometimes referred to as Modal Auxiliary Verbs because they
help other verbs.
They are:
FORM
A LAST TIP
There are few verbs which often serve as modals too. These are modal-like verbs
or semi-modals and they need to be conjugated.
ACTIVITIES
To reinforce this topic, you can read this information in the Grammar Reference of
your student’s book on page 113 and also it is available in the English blog.
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