sábado, 31 de enero de 2009

Word order: subject, verb, obejct

  1. In English, the order of words in a statement is subject + verb+ object:

Subject + Verb + Object

I enjoy good food

Peter is watching Tv.

She drank a cup of coffee

2. Some verbs (e.g. like) always need an object:

Subject + Verb + Object

I like music

She wants a drink

3. After the verb be, we can use an object or an adjective:

She is a doctor--------> object

Mary is tired---------> adjective

We can also put adjectives after the verbs look, seem and feel.

Mary looks tired

4. now look at this example:

John gave Mary an apple.

John gave her an apple.

After some verbs (e.g. give, send, bring), we can talk about a person (Mary, her) and an object:

Verb + Person + Object

He sent Jane a book

Ann made Tom a cup of tea

Ann brought him a cup of tea.

He left them some money

She wrote him a letter

5. We usually put information about times or places at the end of the sentence:

I had a holiday in Spain----->Place

They gave their son a watch yesterday----->time

2 comentarios:

Mariano de Toledo dijo...

Hola Hermano, sabes mejor que nadie el porque de mi ausencia en el cyber espacio, pero sabemos que más que conectados a travéz de la personal internet lo hemos hecho en vivo, en mi internación, las vacaciones y a diario tratando de estudiar jejejejejeje.

Un abrazo gigante te quiero mucho y sigue enseñando ya que sabemos que el Inglés Británico jamás pasara de moda...

Mariano de Toledo dijo...

Hola Jonhy, recuerda que te espero en casa para ver lo del computador ya que esto está más lento que el transantiago jajajajajaja.

Un abrazo.