Instrucciones: Responde las siguientes preguntas.

• Complete el siguiente fragmento de manera correcta.

  All the students _______ in the contest tomorrow, but only one of you _______ .

  • participate – win
  • participating – winning
  • are going to participate – is going to win
  • participated – won

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

  Verbs can be either main verbs or auxiliary verbs. Main verbs tell what action is being performed in a sentence. Auxiliary verbs are used in combination with main verbs. They perform two major functions: 1. Auxiliary verbs indicate shades of meaning that cannot be expressed by a main verb alone. 2. Auxiliary verbs also show tense—the time at which the action of the verb takes place. Do you know the position that auxiliary verbs have in a sentence? They always come before the main verb, although sometimes another word, such as an adverb, may come between the auxiliary verb and the main verb.

  • Los verbos principales dicen qué acción está en proceso
  • Los verbos auxiliares jamás van antes del verbo principal
  • Los verbos auxiliares cumplen tres funciones principales
  • Un adverbio puede estar entre el verbo principal y el sujeto

• 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

• 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.

  • En la oración, es común confundir el sujeto con un objeto
  • 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

• De acuerdo con el texto, some, half, most y all...

  The subject pronouns, like she or it or they, refer to specific, definite persons, places, or things. However, indefinite pronouns do not refer to a specific person or place or to definite things. Indefinite pronouns, such as the words some, half, most, and all, may take either singular or plural verbs, depending on their meaning in the context of the sentence. If these words tell how much of something is meant, the verb is singular; but if they tell how many of something is meant, the verb is plural. Students should not confuse the words with the words each, either, and neither. Those three words always require a singular verb.

  • pueden aceptar verbos en singular o plural
  • son conocidos en inglés como pronombres subjetivos
  • siempre van a tener un solo significado contextual
  • funcional igual que each, either and neither