Recursos gratuitos de inglés

Son muchos los idiomas que formulan una oración relativa con un pronombre especial llamado “pronombre relativo” (español: que, quien, cual, cuando, donde y cuanto), por nexos subordinantes, o sencillamente mediante una concreta formación sintáctica.

En línea con entradas anteriores, continuamos con nuestros apuntes gramaticales encaminados a mostrar la, también, abundante idiomaticidad de la lengua inglesa, en muchas ocasiones intraducible o carente de equivalencia a otras lenguas. En muchos casos —tal y como se evidencia en los dos ejemplos que sirven de introducción a este artículo— no quedará más opción …

Es de ello, de expresiones idiomáticas en inglés inspiradas en el mundo animal de lo que hablaremos en este espacio. Para ilustrar el contenido gramatical que trataremos, partimos del propio castellano y de su clásico literario más relevante, universal, y eminente. Arrancamos, así, con una sentencia de Sancho Panza, prolijo en refranes, quien nos advierte: …

Hablaremos en este espacio de tres tipos concretos de modos del condicional, los llamados Conditional Types. This week, we’ll be taking a look at the idea of Mixed conditionals. The time in which we use the Second and Third conditionals is quite limited. For the Second conditional, we must refer the present or the future. …

  This week´s blog is about primary auxiliary verbs and modal auxiliary verbs. In English there are three primary auxiliaries; they are ‘BE’, ‘HAVE’ and ‘DO’. There are ten common modals; they are ‘CAN’, ‘COULD’, ‘WILL’, ‘WOULD’, ‘SHALL’, ‘SHOULD’, ‘MAY’, ‘MIGHT’, ‘MUST’ and ‘OUGHT’. The first thing that we should know about auxiliary verbs is …

  The British weather has inspired many paintings, poems and songs over the years. It’s unsurprising, therefore, that many expressions in English make reference to the weather – it’s a simple, easy way of communicating a feeling or concept so that most people will understand. Let’s look at a few weather idioms now. When you …

  In English a verb is either transitive or intransitive. A transitive verb has an object, whereas an intransitive verb does not have an object. Most verbs fall into one category or the other, but there are certain verbs that can be either transitive or intransitive depending on the context of the sentence. Let’s look …

  Transition (or linking) words and phrases are useful tools that allow us to better express ourselves in formal conversation, and especially in our writing. There are many examples of transition words and phrases, but here we’ll only be looking at a few of them. To get our brains working, let’s see a few examples …

Football is full of idioms that have entered common usage. For example, if the first part of an activity has not been particularly successful, we can reassure ourselves that it’s ‘a game of two halves’ – in the same way that a football team losing heavily at half-time can attempt to motivate themselves to do …