Gramática inglesa: verbos con -ing e infinitivo, formación de adjetivos y adverbios, y vocabulario de personalidad

Patrones verbales en inglés

VERB + -ING FORM: enjoyed, deny, mention, keep, propose

VERB + INFINITIVE: hopes, agreed, afford, manage, offer, promise, propose

VERB + OBJECT + INFINITIVE: encouraged, beg, persuade, remind, tell

VERB + OBJECT + PREPOSITION + -ING FORM: praised, accuse, blame, thank for

VERB + PREPOSITION + -ING FORM: admitted, insist on, end up, wonder about

Formación de palabras (Word Formation)

wonder - wonderful - wonder - wonderfully

ease - easy - ease - easily

hope - hopeful - hope - hopefully

laziness - lazy - laze - lazily

beauty - beautiful - beautify - beautifully

creation - creative - create - creatively

pleasure - pleasant - please - pleasantly

sadness - sad - sadden - sadly

surprise - surprising - surprise - surprisingly

annoy - annoying - annoy - annoyingly

Adjetivos de personalidad

bad-tempered: someone who gets angry easily

cautious: you take measures to prevent something bad

bossy: person who wants to control everything

considerate: thinks of someone else's feelings

gullible: when you believe something too fast

industrious: hard working

vain: presumido

judgemental: when you judge someone

selfless: not selfish

untrustworthy: someone who you cannot trust

self-satisfied: thinks that everything goes well

shrewd: smart, clever, good at negotiation

stingy: somebody who doesn't share anything

stubborn: doesn't change their mind

sympathetic: simpático

Adjetivos con guion (compound adjectives)

bad-tempered: rude and not showing respect

easy-going: relaxed and happy to accept things without worry

hard-working: putting a lot of effort into something

light-hearted: cheerful and without problems

open-minded: willing to accept other ideas and ways of doing things

quick-witted: able to think in a fast way

self-confident: having confidence in yourself and your abilities

single-minded: thinks only about the thing that you want to achieve

thick-skinned: not easily upset by negative comments

well-behaved: behaving in a way that is acceptable

Past Perfect Continuous (PPC) y Past Perfect Simple (PPS)

PPC: duración de algo que sucedió en el pasado y también para referirnos a la causa de algo (action verbs).

PPS: referirnos a algo que pasó antes que otro y una situación acabada.

Con state verbs

Vocabulario: prensa y celebridades

NOUNS AND NOUN PHRASES: celebrities, free press, investigative journalism, journalist, paparazzi, the press, press regulators, privacy laws, publicity, scandal, tabloid

VERBS AND VERB PHRASES: be in the public eye, sue for libel, be in the public interest, invade someone's privacy, harass, stalk

Action verbs y State verbs

ACTION VERBS: run, eat, go, walk, find, drink, dance, play. Verbos que hablan de acciones.

STATE VERBS: be, understand, like, love, hate, know, prefer. Verbos que hablan más de estado y no de acciones.

Used to y Would

USED TO: hábito en el pasado que ya no existe. Verbos de estado.

WOULD: acciones realizadas en el pasado de forma habitual o repetitiva. Do not use would with questions and negatives.

Orden de adjetivos

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