Revise the strucutre of the 3 conditionals with this diagram
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Is English a crazy language?
The answer should be... no, but it has a lot of irregularities and peculiarities that make it a very rich, magical language!!! Have a look at some of these exceptions
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Order of adjectives
There are rules about the order we put adjectives before a noun.
Adjectives which say what we think or fell about something or how we judge it usually come beofre descriptive adjectives.
Although this order isn't completely fixed, we usually put descriptive adjectives in the following order:
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Verbs not normally used in the -ing form
Stative verbs
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Stative (or state) verbs describe
states (things that don't change easily or quickly, for example,
what you believe, think or own) rather than actions (jump, talk or buy).
These verbs are not normally used in the
continuous form (ing).
Stative verbs can be grouped into these categories: |
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Verbs of emotion:
care
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feel
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hate
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like
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loathe
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love
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need
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prefer
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want
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Verbs of ownership:
own
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have
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possess
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Verbs of the mind
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Verbs of the
senses - often used with 'can'
hear
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see
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smell
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taste
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touch
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Other verbs:
contain
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depend
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matter
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Some of these stative verbs can be used in the
continuous form but their meaning will change. For example:
To think: Do you think so? (Stative - Is that your opinion? Is that the state of your belief?) He's thinking about his friends in Poland (Dynamic - The action of thinking. His friends are in his thoughts, in his mind right now but he might be thinking of something else soon). To have: He has got brown eyes (Stative - He possesses brown eyes. The colour is unlikely to change). He's having a pint of beer (Dynamic - The action of drinking. He might be drinking something else soon). To see: I don't see what you mean. (Stative - I don't understand what you mean). She is seeing him next week. (Dynamic - She is meeting him). | |||||
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