Instrucciones: Responde las siguientes preguntas.

• De acuerdo con el texto, ¿qué información es correcta?

  One of the most common causes of errors in identifying the subject of a sentence is confusing it with a noun used as the object of a preposition. This kind of error can also lead to mistakes in subject–verb agreement. To avoid making this type of mistake or confusion, you first must learn to recognize prepositions and prepositional phrases. Prepositions are the short words in our language that show the position or relationship between one word and another.

  • Sujeto y objeto de una preposición, no se pueden confundir
  • Las preposiciones son palabras que separan las oraciones
  • Para evitar confusión, hay que saber conjugar los verbos
  • En la oración, es común confundir el sujeto con un objeto

• De acuerdo con el texto, ¿qué información es correcta?

  If nouns show number by adding -s to the plural, what do verbs do to show whether a verb is singular or plural? A long time ago, English verbs had many different endings for this purpose, but most of those endings have been dropped. Today most English verbs look the same whether the subject is singular or plural: “I talk,” “we talk,” “the men talk,” “I remembered,” “they remembered,” “the class remembered,” and so on. However, there is one place where English verbs have kept a special ending to show number. That special ending is also an -s, and the place where it is added is in the present-tense singular with the subject pronouns he, she, it and with any singular noun that could replace any of these pronouns

  • Se agrega “s” al verbo, si el pronombre no es he, she o it
  • En el pasado, los verbos tenían las mismas terminaciones
  • Los sustantivos denotan número al agregar -s al plural
  • Los verbos en inglés no distinguen singular del plural

• Identifique en cuáles de las siguientes oraciones se hacen sugerencias.

  1. How about going shopping now?
  2. I don’t like running in the morning
  3. Why don’t we watch a horror film?
  4. We sing in a pop band on weekends
  • 2, 4
  • 2, 3
  • 1, 4
  • 1, 3

• Identifique en qué oraciones se usan expresiones para iniciar una conversación.

  1. You traveled by bicycles
  2. Hello. My name’s Adam
  3. Do not pick up the phone
  4. Good afternoon everyone
  • 1, 3
  • 2, 4
  • 1, 4
  • 2, 3

• Identifique en cuáles oraciones se utiliza el tiempo verbal del presente simple.

  1. I don’t have guitar lessons on Friday
  2. Tomorrow is going to be a great day
  3. You sometimes cheat on math exams
  4. She didn’t give me the right numbers
  • 1, 4
  • 2, 4
  • 2, 3
  • 1, 3