Transcript Unit 3

FACOLTÀ DI SCIENZE ECONOMICHE, GIURIDICHE E POLITICHE
CdL Economia e Gestione Aziendale
UNIT 4
a.a. 2013/2014
Olga Denti & Luisanna Fodde
OUTLINE
Review of Unit 2-3 pp. 26-27, 38-39
 Unit 4:
 Can/can’t
 Like + v-ing
 Object pronouns
 Possessive pronouns
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CAN/CAN’T …
Can is a modal auxiliary verb and has two main
meanings: ability and possibility
 Ability: I can play the piano (I know how to play
the piano)
 Possibility: I can come to the party (I have the
possibility to come to the party
 Request: Can you help me? (a third meaning
found in questions asking for something)
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CAN/CAN’T…
Can’t comes from cannot and it’s a contracted
form
 Can never changes, does not add the –s for the
third person singular and is followed by the
verb in the base form (infinitive without to):
I can play soccer NOT I can to play soccer
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CAN/CAN’T
Affirmative: I/you/he/she/it/we/they can run
 Negative: I/you/he/she/it/we/they
cannot/can’t run
 Interrogative: Can I/you/he/she/it/we/they
run?
 Interrogative negative: Can’t
I/you/he/she/it/we/they run
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LIKE + V-ING
Sentiment verbs such as like, enjoy, love, hate,
don’t mind (both in the affirmative and in the
negative) are followed by the verb in the –ing form
 Examples: I love reading books, I like playing
football, I enjoy watching crime stories, I hate
driving in the rain, I don’t mind wearing those
shoes
 The same rule is followed by the verbs start, begin,
end, finish, stop
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V-ING
The –ing form is obtained from the union of the
base form of the verb with –ing. This is also
called present participle or gerund
 Examples: talk – talking, dream – dreaming,
study – studying, stay – staying, love – loving
(the –e disappears), drive – driving
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OBJECT PRONOUNS
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Object pronouns, which replace nouns) go after
the verb or a preposition (with, at, of, from, to …): I
call her, I go with them
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SUBJECT PRONOUNS
OBJECT PRONOUNS
I
ME
YOU
YOU
HE
HIM
SHE
HER
IT
IT
WE
US
YOU
YOU
THEY
THEM
POSSESSIVE PRONOUNS
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Possessive pronouns indicate possession and
substitute a possessive adjective followed by a
noun: This is my book and that’s yours
POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVES
MY
YOUR
HIS
HER
ITS
OUR
YOUR
THEIR
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POSSESSIVE PRONOUNS
MINE
YOURS
HIS
HERS
ITS
OURS
YOURS
THEIRS
It breaks … heart ‘couse I know
you’re the one for …
Don’t …feel sad,
there never was a story, obviously
….’ll never be, oh
and … would never know
I would never show
What … feel, what I need from …, no
and … would never know
… would never show
What I feel, what I need from …
… would never show
What … feel, what … need from … , no, no
… would never know
I would never show
What … feel, what I need from …, no, no
No no …’ll never know
No no no …’ll never know
No no no, love …, love me, love …, love me,
no
With every smile comes … reality, irony
You won’t find out what has been killing … and … would never know
Can’t you see … ?
I would never show
can’t …see?
What … feel, what … need from …, no, no
… would never know
and … would never know
I would never show
… would never show
What … feel, what … need from …, no
What … feel, what … feel, what … feel
and You would never know
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what … need, what … need from …, no
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HOMEWORK
Exercise p. 49
 Describe one of your friends and send the
writing to [email protected]
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