4th Class.
Comments from our previous lesson
1. Use of “of”. You always express property in English using “of” or “´s”.
There is no other way to express property.
In your rst written exercise, you wrote: “The DR has a population OF over
10 million people. The correction was to add the word “of” in your
sentence. The reason is you can only express property using the word
“of”, or if you write: The DR´s population is over 10 million people. Those
are the only two ways of expressing property, but it might be complicated
when to choose one or the other.
The explanation as to why we need to use “of” in your written exercise is
stated in section 1.3 of the following link:
https://linguapress.com/grammar/possessives.htm
Exercise 1. Correct the following sentences using both, ´s and of.
1. Poland invasion was in 1939.
2. Charles kitchen is 40 m2.
3. England biodiversity is half as big as Costa Rica.
4. Of all talks, I liked James speech.
5. Where is the cable the computer?
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6. My classes were presented as modern topics this year.
ANSWER KEY
1. Poland´s invasion… / The invasion of Poland
2. Charles’s kitchen / The kitchen dimensions in the house of Charles …
3. England´s biodiversity…Costa Rica’s/ The biodiversity of England… the
biodiversity of Costa Rica.
4. James´s/ The speech of James is the one I most liked.
5. Computer´s cable/ of the computer.
6. My classes´ topics… / The topics of my classes
II. Verbs + ing.
The use of a verb + ing is very common in English, especially when using
two verbs at the same time. Follow this link to understand this issue:
In the case of the paragraph you wrote, it appears under the subtitle “-ing
Form after Certain Verbs”. Since you used the verb “consider”, you
needed to use the ing form of both verbs.
https://www.englishclub.com/grammar/verbs-ing-form.php
Exercise 2. Translate to English using the ING form of the verb.
1. Estaba trabajando.
2. He estado estudiando Inglés por un año.
3. Escuchar música es divertido.
4. No me gusta hacer tareas o llevar trabajo a casa.
5. Volar y pasar muchas horas en un avión es incómodo.
6. Me rehuso a trabajar hasta muy tarde.
7. Vayan al baño antes de irnos.
8. Consideren tomar un baño antes de irnos.
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9. Esta demanda requiere ser rmada por 3 personas.
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