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- Despus de preposiciones.
- Cuando funciona como objeto directo de ciertos verbos: finish, enjoy, prefer, like, hate,
love, dislike, avoid, miss, recommend, suggest, think, suggest, practise
I like swimming.
Imagine being a superhero
She finished writing her story.
Skiing is expensive.
Eating vegetables is very healthy.
- Despus de ciertos verbos: decide, want, promise, forget, hope, pretend, refuse, offer,
agree, seem, appear, choose, expect, learn, plan, wish, need
- Cuando hablamos del propsito de alguien para hacer algo, es decir cuando expresamos
porque alguien est realizando una accin.
- Algunos verbos pueden ir seguidos tanto de gerundios como de significados sin que
cambie en nada su significado. (like, love, hate, prefer, begin, start, intend, continue)
- Otros verbos tambin admiten ir seguidos de gerundios e infinitivos pero s que hay
cambios en el significado de la frase (remember, stop, forget, regret, try, learn, teach).
REPORTED SPEECH
Hay dos formas de contar lo que ha dicho otra persona: el estilo directo (direct speech) y el
estilo indirecto (reported speech).
En el estilo directo, introducimos la frase literal que ha dicho la otra persona entre comillas.
En el reported speech contamos lo que otra persona ha dicho sin reproducir sus palabras
literales.
Hay que tener en cuenta que al estar reproduciendo las palabras de alguien de manera no
literal los posesivos cambiarn.
"You must wear your helmet", my dad said - My dad said that I had to wear my helmet.
I may not go to your party", Dan said to Marta - Dan said to Marta that he might not go to
her party.
Los verbos introductorios say y tell son bastante neutrales. En cambio, si queremos
transmitir algo en concreto podemos emplear otros verbos como: admit, announce,
apologise, complain, explain, insist, remind, agree, convince, reply, hear, read, think, know,
realise
THE PASSIVE
Este orden cambia cuando usamos la pasiva. Con la pasiva ponemos la atencin en el
objeto o persona afectada por la accin en vez de en la accin en s. Tambin usamos la
pasiva cuando el sujeto que realiza la accin no es importante o no sabemos cual es.
125 people from Stratford are employed by the new shopping mall.
Es importante que nos sepamos bien los tiempos verbales del verbo to be:
Present simple ----> am/is/are ----> This street is closed to traffic due to works
Present continuous ----> am/are/is being ----> My car is being repaired today
Present perfect simple ----> has/have been ----> Lucy has been promoted!
Past simple ----> was/were ----> His house was robbed while he was on holiday
Past continuous ----> was/were being ----> He was going through a bad time when I met him
Past perfect simple ----> had been ----> The vegetables had been cooked for far too long
Future simple ----> will be ----> All the new merchandise will be sold by the end of Christmas
Future perfect simple ----> will have been ----> We are late, by the time we arrive the play will
have been finished