Set Domande Paniere Risposte Aperte Lingua Inglese

Lingua Inglese

(Risposte Aperte)

1) A, AN, THE or NO ARTICLE: use, definitions and examples. Explain in no less than 100 words:

 THE is used to talk about particular things or things in general, when we expect the listener/reader knows

what we are talking about.

Exemples: the teacher today isn’t at school (you know which one); A teacher should love all his students (all

teachers).

The is used before names of: states whose name contains a common noun like Republic, State, Union… (The

United Kingdom, The United States of America);

- Seas (the Mediterranean);

- Mountain groups (the Alps);

- Island Groups (the Falklands);

- Rivers (the Thames);

- Desert (the Sahara).

The isn’t used before names of:

- Proper Names (John lives in London);

- Continents, countires, states, counties, towns (America, Italy, Rome);

- Lakes (Lake of Garda);

- Titles of the principal public buildings (Oxford University) and organization of a town (Rome airport).

 The use of A/AN depens on pronunciation, not spelling. AN is used before a vowel sound (an orange, an

apple), even if it is written as a consonant (an hour, an heir).

 NO ARTICLE is used before plural and uncountable nouns.

2) Use of the third conditional: the third conditional is used to refer to an unreal past condition and its probable

past result. It is formed by PAST PERFECT + WOULD HAVE + PAST PARTICIPLE of the main verb.

3) Both, either and neither: use, definitions and examples: BOTH-HEITHER-NEITHER are used to talk about two

people or things. BOTH is used with plural nouns (i like both films), EITHER/NEITHER with singular nouns (Neither

parent came to meet the teacher).

4) How to use adjectives in English: Adjective in English can go in two places in a sentence: before a noun and after

the verbs BE-SEEM-LOOK-BECAME and other copular verbs.

5) What is a “wh-word”: A ‘’WH- word introduce questions to show what kind of information is wanted. It usually

comes at the beginning of the clause.

6) Use of comparatives and superlatives in English: Comparatives are used to compare two things or tow people.

Superlatives are used to show the difference between more than two things or more two people. It usually adds-

ER and EST to one-syllable words to make comparatives and superlatives. It usually uses MORE to most two-

syllable and three or morewords to make comparatives and superlatives.

7) Relative pronouns in English: Relative pronouns introduce relative clauses. WHO refers to people, WHICH refers

to things, THAT to both people and things, WHEN refers to place, WHOSE is a possessive relative word.

8) Use of the second conditional: definitions and examples: The second conditional refers to a condition in the

future but there is not a real possibility thet it happens. It is formed by PAST SIMPLE + WOULD + INFINITIVE of

the main Verb.

Example: If I had money i would buy a Ferrari.

9) Use of adverbs: Adverbs are used to give us more information and to modify verbs and clauses. They can appear

in a different places in a sentence. Most adverbs are made by adding – LY to the adjectives. Examples: Loud-

loudly, slow-slowly.

10) Simple past vs. Past continuous: simple pasti s used to describe events in the past. Past continous is used to

talck about something that was happening around a particular time in the past. The regular past simple is

formed using ‘ed’ (irregular verbs have a different endings) and the past continous is formed using was/were +

past participle.

11) Use of the first conditional: The first conditiona