UNIT 2

AT WORK


TO DO VERB



TO DO AUXILIARY VERB
 

WH QUESTIONS WITH AUXILIARY VERBS



THE GERUND VS THE INFINITIVE

We use gerunds (verb + ing):

• After to be verb - I am cooking
• After certain verbs - I enjoy cooking
• After prepositions - I drink a cup of water before eating a meal
• As the subject or object of a sentence - Cooking is an art 

We use 'to' + infinitive:

• After certain verbs - We need to cut the onion
• After many adjectives - It's hard to mix the ingredients fast
• To show purpose - I come to Iga to study Culinary Art 

La lista de ''CERTAIN VERBS'' estará en ''EXTRA VOCABULARY''

MODAL VERBS
 

• They don't use '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').
•  You use "not" to make modal verbs negative.
• They cannot be used in the past or future tenses.  

Hacer click en el siguiente link para ver una explicacion en español acerca de ellos y ver algunos ejemplos:
http://www.curso-ingles.com/gramatica-inglesa/modales.php

"ES" AT THE END OF A VERB



ADJECTIVES GO FIRST

An adjective is a Word that produces a little change in a noun. In English, adjectives usually precede, or go before, the noun they modify or describe. In Spanish, most of the time, it is the opposite. In general, adjectives follow the nouns they describe.

• The big kitchen (La cocina grande)
• The old apron (El mandil viejo)
• A red apple (Una manzana roja)
• I like lemon pie (Me gusta el pie de limón)
• My teacher is a tall man (Mi profesor es un hombre alto..)
• I prefer black coffee (Prefiero el café negro.)