Ingles VII

TAG QUESTIONS Las  Question Tags   son  preguntas cortas  que se colocan justo  después de una frase . Mira los ejemplos: You are a dentist, aren’t you? Marta can use a computer, can’t she? Para un  hispanohablante  parece una tontería tener que aprenderse qué son, cómo se usan y cómo se forman porque nosotros con un simple,  “¿no?”  lo arreglamos todo…pero decir una  frase en ingles y acabarla “a la española queda fataaal!! Nunca digas:  You are a teacher, no? Es incorrecto y suena muy pero que muy mal. Por eso necesitamos aprender a  formar correctamente  question tags  en su frase correspondiente. Al principio parece un poco  complicado , pero con un poco de práctica dominaremos el tema. Pues vamos a ello. Cuándo se usan la  Question Tags Las usamos, como en español, cuando  no estamos seguros  sobre alguna  información  y queremos  confirmarla  o corroborarla. En este caso, el  tono de nuestra voz sube  cuando formulamos la  question tag . Dí la siguiente frase

I bought a new car. It is very fast. → I bought a new car that is very fast. Relative clauses What is a relative clause? (See a list of all the exercises about relative clauses here.) We can use relative clauses to join two English sentences, or to give more information about something. She lives in New York. She likes living in New York. → She lives in New York, which she likes . Defining and Non-defining A   defining relative clause  tells which noun we are talking about: I like the woman who lives next door. (If I don't say 'who lives next door', then we don't know which woman I mean). A   non-defining relative clause  gives us extra information about something. We don't need this information to understand the sentence. I live in London, which has some fantastic parks. (Everybody knows where London is, so 'which has some fantastic parks' is extra information). Defining relative clauses: 1: The relative pronoun i

Grammatical form subject + modal auxiliary verb + verb bare infinitive subject + modal auxiliary verb + be + verb-ing It  must be  the postman. She  might be having  a bath. subject + modal auxiliary verb + have + verb past participle subject + modal auxiliary verb + have + been + verb-ing They  could have got  in through the window.     General use of modal verbs of deduction We can use certain modal auxiliary verbs to make deductions, i.e. to make guesses based on known facts. We can make deductions about  the present  : 'Where's Joanna?' 'She's not here. She must be in the kitchen.' We can also make deductions about  the past  : 'How do you think the burglar got in?' 'He must have climbed through the window.' We use different modal axiliary verbs depending on how strong our guess is : He  must  be in the kitchen.  - Very sure - 99% He  can't  be in the garden.  - Very sure - we think it's impossible - 99% He  may / might /