🔼SENSE, SENSITIVE AND SENSIBLE🔽

Function:

.-Sense. 

Any of the faculties, as sight, hearing, smell, taste, or touch, by which humans and animals perceive estimulity originating from outside or inside the body:

a)    My sense of smell tells me that dinner is ready.

b)   Their operation or function; Sensation

c)    A feeling or perception produced through the organs of touch, taste, etc., or resulting from a particular condition of some part of the body: to have a sense of cold.

d)   A faculty or function of the mind analogous to sensation: the moral sense.

e)   Any special capacity for perception, estimation, appreciation, etc.: a sense of humor.

.- Sensitive.

a)    Is physical or emotional.

b)    If your emotions are easily swayed, you are sensitive.

c)       If your sense of touch is very good, you are sensitive.

     .- Sensible

 a)    Is mental. If you do things that make sense, you are sensible.

b)    I was sensible when I bought clothes.

c)    I didn't buy the designer clothes because they were too expensive.

   Exercices:

1.   Sticking to a ______diet plan ensures that the weight will stay off.

2.   Children on drugs often leave clues, and _______ parents will investigate when their suspicions are aroused.

3.   "The children I saw in Yugoslavia appeared _______ and level-headed without the buoyancy of childhood. Here were children I could understand."

4.   An extremely ________ person can have a severe reaction to the small amount of milk protein in a candy bar.

5.   _________medical equipment requires an uninterrupted supply of power.

🔼REPEATED AND DOUBLE COMPARATIVES🔽

Function:

1. Repeated comparatives

Repeated comparisons are used to describe something that is changing

All of them are used to describe actions and things that are increasing or decreasing.

2. Double comparatives

Double comparisons are used to describe how two things change at the same time, or how one thing changes as a result of a change in something else.

Double comparatives describe a cause and effect process. Also, they are written as a sentence with a comma separating the cause and the effect. The structure to use them is the following:

Form:

FORM

.- Comparativo + and + comparativo. .- More and more + multisyllable adjective. .- Less and less + multisyllable adjective.

.- The + more ( + noun ) + verb phras... .- The + comparative + verb phrase… .- The + comparative + the + noun + verb phrase…

Examples:

1.-  As a result of social media, it has become easier and easier to maintain friendships around the world. 2.- Global corporations are becoming more and more powerful. 3.- These days, it is less common for people to spend their whole lives in the same job.

1.- The more you study, the more you learn. 2.- The more food you buy from local farmers, the easier it is to support the local economy. 3.- The more expensive the item, the fewer people will buy it.

Exercices:

2. Complete the sentences with the words in parentheses. use either a repeated or a double comparative.

1.- People are becoming _________________ toward people in other countries. (sympathetic)

2.- The world is becoming ________________ with each new form of media that appears. (small)

3.- _______ I used Twitter, the _____________ I am in its possibilities. (more, interesting)

4.- ________ I read his blog, _____________ I find it. (more, funny)

5.- _______ you use social media, _____________  it becomes. (more, confusing)

For more information check the video link to clarify your doubts about the subject, thank you.

🔼VERBS WITH STATIVE AND DYNAMIC USES🔽

Function:

Some verbs are rarely used in progressive forms. They are called stative verbs because they usually refer to states or conditions that continue over a period of time, for example, know, prefer or agree. However, some stative verbs commonly have both stative and dynamic uses, with different menanings.

Form:

USE	STATIVE (Simple verb form)	DYNAMIC (Progressive verb form)
Be	.- Permanent state, general truth. Lupita is married.	.- Acting, behaving. Michael is being really weird.
Have	.- Possession, characteristics. I have five minutes before class starts.	.- Causing, experiencing. I´m having problems with my car.
See	.- Notice, observe, and understand. Do you see what I mean?	.- Meet or date. They´ve been seeing each other for a while.
Think	.- Have an opinion. I think it’s a good idea.	.- The process of thought. I was thinking about it all day.

Grammar:

Examples:

USE	STATIVE (Simple verb form)	DYNAMIC (Progressive verb form)
Be	.- He's an excellent guitarist.	.- You are not being serious!
Have	.- He has a beautiful car.	.- He's having lunch.
See	.- I see what you mean.	.- He's been seeing the same woman for eight years.
Think	.- I think it's a fantastic idea.	.- I am thinking about my friend.

Exercices:

1.    I _________our city is losing its identity.

   2.    Multinational companies ____ the largest employees.

   3.    We ______an office in Australia. 

   4.    I ____ your point of view.

   5.    I ______ much money right now. Cloud we stay home this evening instead of eating out.

   6.    Susanna _______ anyone now, or are you single?

   7.    Paul and I ______ really happy in our new home.

   8.    I ____ at the news paper.

   9.    You ____ annoying

   10. I ____ a good time.

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🔼REVIEW OF PAST TENSE🔽

FORM	FUNCTION
.- SIMPLE PAST -ed, irregular forms (Was, had, etc)	Used to describe a completed event, action, or state in the past. It is usually the main tense used to talk about the past.
.- SIMPLE PAST WITH DID FOR EMPHASIS Did + base form	Used  to describe a complete event, action, or state in the past and is used for emphasis often the contrast.
.- PAST PROGRESSIVE Was/Were + -ingForm	Used to describe actions or states in progress at a particular time in the past. It is often used to describe background action (e.g. the weather).
.- PAST PERFECT Had + past participle	Used to describe a completed event, action, or state that took place before another past event, action, or state. It is used to talk about things that happened before the man action.

Exercises:

Choose the correct verbs so that each tense appears once.
Simple past, past progressive, past perfect simple, past perfect progressive.

1.     We  went were going had gone had been going  to the cinema last week.

2.     A bird pooed on the window that I   cleaned was cleaning had cleaned had been cleaning  only a minute before.

3.     Yesterday at nine he  sat was sitting had sat had been sitting  in front of his computer.

4.     When their mum got home, the boys  watched were watching had watched had been watching  TV for two hours.

🔼WOULD, USED TO, BE + ALWAYS + ING🔽

WOULD, USED TO, BE + ALWAYS + -ING
FORM	FUNCTION	EXAMPLES
.-WOULD (ALWAYS/NEVER) + BASE FORM	Used to talk about habits or customs in the past.	Sara would never remember to buy milk on her way home.
(ALWAYS/NEVER) USED TO + BASE FORM	Used to talk about habits or customs in the past, or to express something that was true in the past, but is no longer true.	The wind always to blow really hard in the Montreal.
BE+  ALWAYS + -ING FORM (PRESENT OR PAST PROGRESSIVE)	Used to talk about habits or customs in the present and past.	.- They are always laughing and joking. .- He was always singing.

Exercises:

For each of the following sentences, choose either "used to" or "would". If both are possible, use "would".

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Principio del formulario

1. Do you remember how your Uncle David  sit in that chair and smoke those disgusting cigars.

2. Your mother  have a Yorkshire Terrier when she was a young girl, didn't she?

3. For years, they  go on holiday to the Rockies, but then it became very fashionable and, hence, expensive.

4. Years ago, I  write a diary every day but then I got bored with doing it and I stopped. Maybe it was my life that was boring!

5. At the start of their marriage, they  be very happy - but then it all went wrong!

Final del formulario