Wish, Senses, Pronombres Indefinidos, Gerundios y Conectores en Inglés: Guía Completa

Wish: expresar deseos sobre la realidad

Wish: Note: We use wish to express that we want current reality to be different. Wish is similar in structure to conditional and often contains modals.

Ejemplos:

• I wish I were beautiful.
• She wishes she had a car.

Verbos de los sentidos

Next topic is senses:

• See = Can you see that airplane?
• Look = She looked at the painting carefully.
• Hear = I heard the phone ringing.
• Sound = She sounds like Madonna.
• Watch = They watched the film together.
• Smell = Cigarette smoke smells terrible.
• Taste = Can you taste this soup for me?
• Feel = Abdul felt his chair move.

Pronombres indefinidos

Note: We use indefinite pronouns when the subject of a sentence is not well defined.

Every: all the people, things or places.
Some: specific person, thing or place.
Any: an unspecific person, thing or place.
No: no person, thing or place.

Ejemplos:

• Someone stole my wallet.
• Everybody attended the party.
• Somebody called you last night.
• Everybody should come to the park.
• She doesn't have anything to wear.

Gerundios

Note: Some gerunds, or verbs ending in "-ing", can be used as subjects, just like any other subject. They can occur in a variety of tenses and with auxiliaries. Verbs following gerunds as subjects have the same form as verbs following he, she or it.

a) As a subject

Playing guitar is John's favorite activity.

b) As adjectives

Discovery Channel is interesting.

Either... or / Neither... nor

Either... or: Either you take a shower or you don't go to the party.

Neither... nor: Neither Pedro nor John is at school.

Conectores

In order to

I will take a shower in order to smell good.

So as (not) to

(para y para no) They won't drink wine tonight so as to be fresh for the exam.

In spite of (a pesar de)

I won the competition in spite of the rain.

Despite

I study in my house despite the weather.

So that (por, para eso)

I cleaned my car so that I could go to the park.

Because of (por)

They arrived late because of the rain.