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Ejercicios de verbos modales: expresión de obligación II Elige la opción correcta entre 'must' y 'have to'. 1 You have to mustn't don't have to touch poisonous things. You mustn't touch poisonous things. 2 Today is Friday and we don't have to must mustn't go to...

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Exercises Explanation Downloads

Used to, didn't use to - past habits and states

Exercise 1

Choose the correct forms to complete the sentences below.

Used to, didn't use to - Grammar chart

Used to

Past habits

We use used to for past habits or things that happened repeatedly in the past, but they don't happen any more.

When the economy was better, we used to eat out every week.

Past states

We use used to with non-action verbs ( be, have, etc.) for past states: things that were true in the past, but they are not true any more.

Didn't use to, did you use to?

We use did/ didn't + use to for negatives and questions.

He didn't use to travel a lot.

'Did he use to live here?' 'Yes, he did .'

We can also use never for negatives

Past simple vs used to

Past simple + always, usually, often, etc.

We can also use the past simple tense + frequency adverbs for past habits.

I always met her at the bar down the street. (= I used to meet ...)

I usually had a big salad for dinner. (= I used to have ...)

Past simple (NOT used to)

But we use the past simple (NOT used to) for actions that happened once or when we mention when they happened.

Last week I met her at the bar down the street. (NOT I used to meet ...)

I had a big salad for dinner last Sunday. (NOT I used to have ...)

Usually or used to?

Used to is only used in the past. For present habits, we must use the present simple tense with usually or normally.

I usually get up very early at weekends. (NOT I use to get up ...)

We don't usually play on Sunday. (NOT We don't use to play )

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Used to, didn't use to. In English we use used to to talk about past habits and states. A2. Pre-intermediate English grammar and exercises.

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Used to, be used to, get used to: exercises

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Verbs + -ing

Some verbs in English are followed by another verb in the -ing form. The most common of these verbs are verbs of liking and disliking: love, like, enjoy, don't mind, don't like, hate. If we use another verb after these verbs, it often takes the -ing form.

The second verb is in the -ing form in the past too.

-ing spelling

You can check the spelling of the -ing form of the verbs in the table below.

Verbs + to + infinitive

Many verbs in English are followed by to + infinitive. Some of these verbs are: forget, hope, learn, need, offer, plan, remember, start, want and would like.

The second verb takes the to + infinitive form in the past too.

would like

The verb would like (or 'd like) is different from like. We use would like + to + infinitive and we normally use like + -ing verb to talk about general preference.

The meaning is also different.

We use the question would you like... when we offer or suggest something.

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Many verbs are followed by another verb in the infinitive with 'to', or in the -ing form. Learn the most common of these verbs and do our three tests. A1 English grammar.

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Ejercicios: -ing /to + infinitive /bare infinitive II

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Exercises: Form -ing / to + infinitive / bare infinitive II Elige la respuesta correcta. 1 Last summer we decided ____ to the beach. to go going 2 I hate ____ in the rain. to drive driving 3 I'm looking foward ____ from you soon. to hearing hearing to...

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SECOND CONDITIONAL OR TYPE 2 CONDITIONAL

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Second conditional - Grammar chart

If clause and main clause

We use if + past to talk about an imaginary present or future situation (although the verb is in past, the meaning is present or future). And we use would + infinitive to talk about the result or consequence of that imaginary situation.

Comma

When the ifclause comes first, we normally put a comma after it. We don't use a comma when the main clause comes first and the if clause comes second.

Would

Would/wouldn't is the same for all persons.

I/you/he/she/it/we/they would/wouldn't do that if it was possible.

Could

We can often use could + infinitive instead of would + infinitive in the main clause.

In the second conditional we can use if I/he/she/it were (more formal) instead of if I/he/she/it was (spoken English).

But we use were (NOT was) when we give advice with the expression if I were you.

First conditional vs second conditional

We use the first conditional to talk about possible future situations and we use the second conditional to talk about hypothetical or imaginary future situations.

If I don't have a meeting tomorrow morning, I'll have lunch with you. (It's possible. Maybe I don't have a meeting.)

If I didn't have a meeting tomorrow morning, I'd have lunch with you. (It's hypothetical. I have a meeting tomorrow, so I won't be able to have lunch with you.)

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Conditional sentences, type II, statements, Exercise

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Passive Voice - Online Exercise - Simple Past - Learning English Online

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English grammar exercise about passive verbs with the past simple tense

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What is indirect speech or reported speech?

When we tell people what another person said or thought, we often use reported speech or indirect speech. To do that, we need to change verb tenses (present, past, etc.) and pronouns ( I, you, my, your, etc.) if the time and speaker are different. For example, present tenses become past, I becomes he or she, and my becomes his or her, etc.

Omission of that

We often leave out that after reporting verbs like say, think, etc.

The most common verbs we use in reported speech are say and tell. We must pay attention here. We say tell somebody something, and say something (to somebody).

Tense changes in indirect speech

When a person said something in the past and now we tell somebody what that person said, the time is different, and for this reason, the verb tenses change. Look at a summary of these changes.

Changes in expressions

There are adverbs or expressions of time and place that change when we report what someone said. Here you have a list.

Questions in indirect speech

We use the normal order of words in reported questions, i.e. the subject comes before the verb, and it is not necessary to use do or did.

Imperatives in indirect speech

When we report an order or instruction, we use the form ask or tell someone to do something.

Pronoun changes in indirect speech

In reported or indirect speech we must also pay attention to the use of pronouns. When a person tells us something, he or she uses the first person ( I, me, my, we, us, our) to talk about himself or herself and the second person ( you, your) to talk about us, the person listening. But when we tell someone else what that person said, we are going to use the third person ( he, she, his, her, etc.) to talk about the speaker and the first person ( I, me, my) to talk about ourselves, the listener.

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Exercises Explanation Downloads

Past continuous and past simple

Exercise 1

Choose the correct past continuous and past simple forms to complete the sentences below.

The past continuous - Form

The past continuous - Use

Actions in progress

We use the past continuous to talk about actions that were in progress (not finished) at a specific moment in the past.

'What were you doing at 9?' 'I was studying.'

The specific moment in the past can be described by a time expression (at 9 a.m., at midday, at lunchtime, all morning, all day, etc.):

Or by a simple past sentence:

Describing a scene

We often use the past continuous at the beginning of a story to describe the situation.

Past simple vs Past continuous

We use the past simple for completed actions in the past, and we use the past continuous for actions in progress (not finished) in the past.

The past continuous describes a longer action or situation and the past simple describes a shorter action or event.

When I met Susan she was having a drink at a terrace with a friend.

We didn't go out because it was raining.

The short action in past simple often interrupts the longer action in past continuous.

We use the past simple for completed actions that happened one after the other. Compare:

(The action of having a shower started before he arrived)

(The action of having a shower started after he arrived)

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