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- 1BETWEEN and AMONG Se usa “between” para referirnos a algo que está entre dos unidades diferenciadas: dos personas, dos grupos,… o entre dos distancias o intervalos. Cuando hay más de dos unidades, se usa “between” sólo si las unidades que- The distance BETWEEN London and Paris is 213 miles.
- My blue T-shirt is somewhere AMONG all those clothes.
- It was difficult to find you AMONG all the people in the concert. - 2ANGRY AT - WITHANGRY
- AT a thing.
- WITH a person.
-The coach was
angry WITH the
player.
-Tom was angry
AT the low quality
printer. - 3ANNOYED -WITH -ATANNOYED
-WITH a person.
-AT a thing
- The candidate was
annoyed AT the low
salary offer. - 4INDIGNANT (indignado) -WITH -AT-WITH a person
-AT a thing
- She was indignant
AT the lame excuses. - 5ARRIVE -IN -AT- IN countries or
large cities.
-AT small places.
- Her parents have
ARRIVED IN NY. - 6FEWER vs LESS-FEWER for items you
can count individually.
-LESS refers to a
commodity, such as
sand or water, that
can not be counted individually.
- There are FEWER
cakes now.
- Ten items or FEWER.
- LESS sand.
- FEWER grains of sand. - 7AMOUNT vs NUMBER-AMOUNT refers to a
commodity that can't
be counted. (water)
- NUMBER refers to
individual things that
can be counted (birds)
- A great NUMBER of
people.
- The rain damped a
larger AMOUNT of water... - 8WHO vs WHOM-WHO refers to the subject of
a sentence.
-WHOM refers to the object.
-They work in the same way as
HE or HIM.Ask yourself:
-WHO did this? HE did.
-WHOM should I invite? HIM
- WHOM shall I invite?
-WHO is responsible? - 9I.E vs E.G.-I.e means "that is"or
"in other words"
-E.g. means "for
example"when writing
informally.
- He likes many different
cheeses, i.e.cheddar, brie...
- He objects to the changes-
i.e.he won't be accepting
them. - 10FEW vs. A FEW.-A FEW usually has
a positive connotation.
-FEW usually has a
negative connotation.
- I move to Madrid, I have
A FEW friends there.
-I am not popular, I
have FEW friends. - 11NEITHER vs NONE-NEITHER is used
for TWO things.
-NONE is used for
THREE or more things.
-NEITHER of my
parents is retired.
-NONE of the kids
in the class failed
the test. - 12I'LL EXPLAIN YOU THE PTOBLEM. -NOOOOOOI'LL EXPLAIN
THE PROBLEM
TO YOU. - 13I THINK SHE DOESN'T LIKE TOMATOESI DON'T
THINK SHE
LIKES TOMATOES. - 14DO YOU WANT THAT I MAKE BREAKFAST.DO YOU
WANY ME
TO MAKE
BREAKFAST. - 15I'M THINKING TO BUY A NEW CAR.I'M THINKING
OF/ABOUT
BUYING
A NEW CAR. - 16MY TEN-YEARS-OLD DAUGHTER...MY
TEN-YEAR-OLD
DAUGHTER... - 17I LIKE VERY MUCH SOCCER.I LIKE
SOCCER
VERY MUCH/
A LOT. - 18SOME vs ANYNormalmente, some se usa en las oraciones afirmativas y any en las interrogativas y negativas.
- I’ve got some money - Tengo (algo de) dinero.
- Have you got any children? - ¿Tienes hijos?
- I don’t want any sweets - No quiero caramelos. - 19ANY en frases afirmativas.Any se puede usar en oraciones afirmativas con palabras como without, never, little, hardly, etc que le den un sentido negativo a la oración.
- There were hardly any people there - Apenas había gente allí
- I made it without spending any mo - 20FEWER/LESS- If you can count it,
use FEWER.
- If you can't, use LESS.
- Rob has written FEWER
poems since he works.
- Tom has LESS
incentive to do what
I say. - 21APOSTROPHESDog's = belonging to the dog
(eg the dog's ball)
Dogs' = belonging to the dogs
(eg the dogs' ball ) - 22NOOO - ON THIS PICTURE.YESS
- IN THIS
PICTURE - 23NOOO - IF I WOULD HAVE STUDIED, I WOULD HAVE PASSED.SIII
- IF I HAD STUDIED, I
WOULD HAVE PASSED.
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