Phrasal Verbs, Conditionals, and Sports Vocabulary
Phrasal Verbs
- Blow away: Impress somebody a lot.
- Break down: Stop working (for a machine, etc.).
- Build up: Create something.
- Call off: Cancel something.
- Carry on: Continue doing something.
- Catch up: Recover, get to the same point as somebody else.
- Catch up with: Reach somebody.
- Check in: Register.
- Check out: Verify, register.
- Chill out: Spend time relaxing.
- Come across: Find something by chance.
- Come up with: Think of or suggest an idea or a plan.
- Count on: Rely on, trust.
- Cut down on: Reduce.
- Deal with: Handle
Mastering English Tenses: A Comprehensive Study
Mastering English Tenses
Present Perfect
- Affirmative: Subject + have/has + past participle (I have worked here)
- Negative: Subject + have/has + not + past participle
- Interrogative: Have/Has + Subject + past participle?
Present Perfect Continuous
- Affirmative: Subject + have/has + been + gerund (verb + -ing) (I have been working here)
- Negative: Subject + have/has + not + been + gerund
- Interrogative: Have/Has + Subject + been + gerund?
Past Simple (Past Tense)
- Affirmative: Subject + Verb (past form) + Complement
Master English Verb Tenses, Grammar, and Structure
Verb Tenses
Present Simple
Used for habits and routines, with adverbs of frequency:
- Every, on + day of the week, once a…, in the morning
- Always, usually, often, never, seldom, sometimes
Present Continuous
Used for actions happening now or around now, and for future arrangements:
- Now, right now, at the moment, today
- Tomorrow, next…
Past Simple
Used for completed actions in the past:
- …ago, when + short actions
Past Continuous
Was/were + -ing. Used for actions in progress in the past, often interrupted by
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Irregular Verbs and Tenses
This document provides a list of irregular English verbs and examples of sentence structures in different tenses.
- Become, became, become (llegar a ser)
- Present Simple: Subject + verb in infinitive (3rd person singular adds -s or -es)
- Negative: Subject + do/does not + verb in infinitive
- Interrogative: Do/does + subject + verb in infinitive
- Begin, began, begun (empezar)
- Present Continuous: Subject + to be + verb-ing
- Negative: Subject + to be + not + verb-ing
- Interrogative: To be
Essential English-Spanish Vocabulary: Society, Law, and Verbs
Social and Legal Terms
- appointment – cita
- joyriding – pasear en un auto robado
- authorities – autoritats
- judge – juez
- bravery – valentía
- jury – jurado
- capitalism – capitalismo
- jury service – servicio de jurado
- citizen – ciudadano
- lawyer – abogado
- citizenship – ciudadania
- life sentence – cadena perpetua
- civil servant – funcionario
- mugging – atraco
- colony – colonia
- murder – asesinato
- community – vecindario
- pay a fine – pagar una multa
- custom – costum, hábito
- police officer – oficial de policía
- employment – empleo
- reach
English Grammar Tenses, Passive Voice, Verbs & Conditionals
English Grammar Essentials
Reported Speech:
- Present Simple → Past Simple
- Past Simple → Past Perfect
- Past Continuous → Past Perfect Continuous
- Present Perfect Simple → Past Perfect
- Present Perfect Continuous → Past Perfect Continuous
- Past Perfect Simple → Past Perfect
- Past Perfect Continuous → Past Perfect Continuous
- Future → Would
Passive Voice:
- Present Simple → are signed
- Present Continuous → are being signed
- Past Simple → were signed
- Past Continuous → were being signed
- Present Perfect