martes, 29 de abril de 2014

Unit 6. Image and identity. Grammar

Grammar:
Reflexive pronouns:

Myself.
Yourself
Himself.
Herself.
Itself.
Ourselves.
Yourselves.
Themselves.
Each other.

Relative pronouns

Rules:

1. We can use the relative pronouns where, who and which when we refer to places, people and things.

2. We can use that instead of who and which.

3. We can use whose for possesion.

4. We put prepositions at the end of a relative clause.

I know a man who...
Can we watch the DVD which...?
Is there a shop in town where...?




miércoles, 2 de abril de 2014

REPHRASING: MODALS

Here's a list of the modal verbs in english:

CAN

COULD

MAY

MIGHT

SHOULD

OUGHT TO

HAD BETTER

MUST

HAVE TO

WILL

WOULD

WOULD RATHER

WOULD LIKE

Modals are different from normal verbs:

* They don't use an 's' for the third person singular.
* They make questions by inversion ('she can go' becomes 'can she go?')
* They are followed directly by the infinitive of another verb (without 'to')


Can --> To show ability 
        -->To suggest a possibility or give and option.
        -->To ask for or to give permission.
        -->To show impossibility 

Could -->To show past ability 
           -->To ask a polite question.
           -->To show possibility.
           -->To suggest a possibility/opportunity or give an option.
May -->To ask for or to give permission (formal)
        -->To show possibility.

Might -->To show possibility.

Should-->To show advisability.
           -->To show obligation.
           -->To show expectation.

Ought to-->To show advisability.
              -->To show obligation.
              -->To show expectation.

Had better -->To show advisability.

Must -->To show probability or to make a logical assumption.
         -->To show necessity.
         -->To show prohibition.

Have to -->To show necessity.
              -->To show lack of necessity.

Will -->To indicate future time.
       -->To make a promises or to show willingness.
       -->To state a general truth.
       -->To ask a polite question.

Would -->To ask a polite question.
           -->To indicate a repeated action in the past.
           -->To indicate future time in the sentence that is in the past.
           
Would rather-->To show a preference.

Would like-->To express a desire.