66 ESSENTIAL PHRASAL VERBS (INTERMEDIATE) AGREE WITH - estar de acuerdo - "All women are bad drivers." "I don’t agree with you." BE ABOUT TO - estar a punto de -I was about to leave the house when my friends arrived. BE BACK - regresar -I’m working late at the office tonight so I won’t be back until 10. BE OUT OF - quedarse sin - We’re out of eggs so we can’t make a tortilla. BE OVER - terminarse - When the football match was over‚ we went to the pub. BE UP - estar levantado - "Phil isn’t up
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of Translating English Phrasal Verbs into Russian ANNOTATION Diploma paper is devoted to a very current theme about the translating of English phrasal verbs to Russian. Translating of English phrasal verbs is very important part of the science of translation because it couldn’t be a real good correct translation without correct translating of the phrasal verbs. The paper
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Multi-word verbs Phrasal verbs Prepositional verbs Phrasal-prepositional verbs Multi-word verbs compared to verb + PP combinations Intransitive verbs Intransitive vs. causative verbs Copula constructions Different phrase types used as complement Refrences Verb complementation types A clause consists basically of the predicate verb and its complements (additional expressions needed to ‘complete’ the sense of the main verb). The relationship between the main verb and its
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|The subject is one activist and the singular verb is has | |2. |b | | | | |The subject is to one group of people‚ so the verb form requires is right | |3. |a |The subject is plural‚ vitamins‚ and the verb must be plural too‚ "are" is correct. | |
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Regular Verbs and Irregular Verbs English verbs are tricky. Even the regular verbs are not always so regular‚ but what makes a verb regular exactly? Regular verbs can be written in the past tense by adding either -d or -ed to the base verb form (jump‚ jumped). Irregular verbs‚ however‚ have different spellings to change a verb to the past tense. Sometimes the change is as simple as one letter (know‚ knew)‚ and other times the change is more complicated (go‚ went). Most irregular verb forms come
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Stative Verb & Action Verb All verbs in English are classified as either stative or action verbs (also referred to as ’dynamic verbs’). Action verbs describe actions we take (things we do) or things that happen. Stative verbs refer to the way things ’are’ - their appearance‚ state of being‚ smell‚ etc. The most important difference between stative and action verbs is that action verbs can be used in continuous tenses and stative verbs can not be used in continuous tenses. Action Verbs She’s studying
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forms of the gerund may be rendered in different ways‚ the passive forms are nearly rendered by a clause. Also there are the row of verbs and adjectives with prepositions‚ after which are used the gerund. For example after such verbs as to avoid‚ to dislike‚ to enjoy‚ to finish‚ to mind‚ to forgive‚ can’t help and some other$ we use only the gerund‚ but after verbs to like‚ to begin‚ to start‚ to continue‚ to try and some others we can use the gerund or infinitive. I am going to describe all this
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Advanced Core Skills A (D500 101) Ohio Program of Intensive English Summer Semester 2013 Instructor: Andrea Johannes Email: johannes@ohio.edu Office Phone: 740-597-5848 Office: R-Tech 318 A Classroom: Convo 196B Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thurs. 4:00-5:00 p.m. Class time: 9:40 a.m. -12:45 p.m. (or by appointment) Class Goals: * Reading: Strengthen both your general and academic reading skills with an emphasis in expository readings. This also includes academic vocabulary
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Modal Verbs CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ………………………..………………………………….......... 3 CHAPTER ONE. CATEGORY OF MODALITY AND MEANS OF ITS EXPRESSION …………...…………………………...…......4 1.1. Notion of modality and history of its study ……….…….………….4 1.2. Modal verbs as means of expressing modality………………...........6 Conclusions to Chapter One ………………………………………………........12 CHAPTER TWO. LEXICO-GRAMMATICAL MEANS OF EXRESSING MODALITY …………………………………………...…..13 2.1. Modal verbs as means of expressing
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Modal verbs A modal verb is a verb‚ for example ‘can’‚ ‘might’‚ or ‘must’ that is used before another verb to show that something is possible‚ necessary‚ etc. Here are some of the uses and meanings of modal verbs. For a more detailed description‚ use a good grammar book. Here are the main modal verbs of English: can could may might must ought shall will would Expressing degrees of certainty In the speaker’s opinion‚ John has the car: The car’s not here – John must have taken it. The speaker
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