Inglés B2: Reporting Verbs, Wish, Relative Clauses y Estructuras Clave con Ejemplos

Reporting verbs

• Verb + to + infinitive: offer, refuse, threaten, agree, promise.
• Verb + person + to + infinitive: ask, invite, advise, encourage, warn, tell, convince, persuade, remind.
• Verb + -ing: apologize for, admit, deny, insist on, recommend, regret, suggest. Además: accuse (sujeto) of y blame (sujeto) for.

Wish

• Wish + past simple: I wish I had... (ojalá tuviera...)
• Wish + past perfect: I wish I had studied (ojalá hubiera estudiado).

Relative clauses

• what: lo que (objetos).
• which: que (personas y objetos).
• whom: a quien (personas).
• whose: cuyo.
• that: que.

Due to / Owing to

Due to / owing to + the fact that + frase = debido a

Clauses of contrast

• Although, even though, though (aunque...): Although I had the exam, I didn't pass.
• Despite, in spite of (a pesar de...): Despite / In spite of the fact that I had the exam, I didn't pass.

Have something done

Fíjate en el tiempo verbal de la primera frase:

• I'm having the house painted.
• He's going to have his eyes tested.
• They have had the tree planted.

Enough y too

• Enough = suficiente: You are good enough to play football.
• Too = demasiado: You are too good to play football.

Would rather, would prefer, had better, make

• I would rather (yo preferiría...) go to the beach than be in Pamplona.
• I would prefer to go to the beach to be in Pamplona.
• I had better pass.
• Make you read.

So y such

• So + adjetivo
• Such a + adjetivo + sustantivo contable en singular
• Such + adjetivo + sustantivo incontable o en plural