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blister ampolla IMPERIAL METRIC
crack grieta
skiing esquiar
tent tienda de campaña
pick up Aprender
galloping galopand
Bends Curvas
deadline plazo / fecha limite
Why don't you come with us? ¿Por qué no vienes con nosotros?
amazing increíble
We can Podemos
INVITING PERSUADING
We’d love you to come Nos encantaría que viniera Come on, you’ll Vamos, ¡te va a
with us. con nosotros. love it! encantar!
How about coming with ¿Qué tal si vienes con We’ll have so Nos divertiremos
us? nosotros? much fun. mucho.
What do you think - will Don’t worry, it’ll No te preocupes,
¿Qué opinas? ¿Vendrás?
you come? be fine. estará bien.
You will be tied by a rope all the time. You will be safe
Articles
The indefinite article is a/an; the definite article is the.
The choice of a or an depends on the sound (not the letter) at the beginning of the noun: if
the sound is a consonant, then a; if the sound is a vowel, then an, e.g.:
In general we use the articles in English in similar ways to their use in Spanish. However,
in English:
Personal This is mine and that is yours Este es el mío y aquel es el tuyo
A: Do you like dogs? B: I like big A: ¿Te gustan los perros? B: Me gustan los
dogs but not small ones. perros grandes pero los pequeños no.
There are expressions that have different presuppositions with and without the, e.g.:
Phrasal verbs
Forms: blow up, fall out, listen to, look forward to.
Often the meaning of a phrasal verb is not obvious from the meaning of the two parts, just
as in Spanish the meaning of, for example, influir is not simply in + fluir.
Grammatically, there are four types of phrasal verbs.
1. These consist of two parts, and the sentence has an object. There are normally two
possible orders, e.g.:
When the object is a long expression, it goes after both parts of the phrasal verb,
e.g.:
We have to hand in the projects dealing with the history of the Roman empire.
Debemos entregar los trabajos sobre la historia del Imperio Romano
Would you like to take off any items of clothing that contain metal?
¿Se puede quitar todas las piezas de ropa que contengan metal?
When the object is a pronoun, it goes between the two parts of the phrasal verb,
e.g.:
2. These consist of two parts, and the sentence has no object, e.g.:
3. These consist of two parts, and the sentence has an object, e.g.:
When the object is a pronoun, it goes after both parts of the phrasal verb, e.g.:
4. these consist of three parts, and the sentence has an object, e.g.:
I don't get on with him.
No me llevo bien con él