SELECTIVIDAD- REDACCIN - ERRORES ORTOGRFICOS - FORMACIN DE LOS PLURALES

IRREGULARES EN INGLS

Es importante no cometer errores ortogrficos en el examen. Por eso es bueno repasar

ciertas reglas ortogrficas
PLURALES IRREGULARES LOS SUSTANTIVOS:

- child children

- ox oxen

- foot feet

- goose geese

- man men

- tooth teeth

- mouse mice

- woman women

- Hay sustantivos que no cambian al formar el plural:

- fish - salmon - trout

- sheep - deer - spacecraft

- Hay sustantivos que son plurales:

- people - cattle

PLURAL DE LOS ADJETIVOS:

Los adjetivos en ingls no llevan forma de plural. Los nicos adjetivos que tienen formas
distintas en singular y plural son los
demostrativos:

- this these

- that those

SELECTIVIDAD -ERRORES EN LA REDACCIN CUNDO USAR "A"," An" or "The"? DIFERENCIAS

PRINCIPALES

a/an just means one of a class

the means you know exactly which one.

Look at these examples:

the a, an

The capital of France is Paris. I was born in atown.

I have found the book that I lost. John had anomelette for lunch.

Have you cleaned the car? James Bond ordered a drink.

There are six eggs in thefridge. We want to buy anumbrella.

Please switch off the TV when you finish. Have you got a pen?

Of course, often we can use the or a/an for the same word. It depends on the situation, not
the word. Look at these examples:

We want to buy an umbrella. (Any umbrella, not a particular umbrella.)

Where is the umbrella? (We already have an umbrella. We are looking for our umbrella,
a particular umbrella.)
Compare:

A doctor must like people. ( = any doctor, any one of that profession)

My brothers a doctor. ( = one of that profession) Im going to see the doctor. ( = you
know which one: my doctor)

I live in a small flat at the top of an old house near thetown hall, (a small flat, there
might be two or three at the top of the house it could be any one of these.

an old house: there are lots near the town hall it could be any one.

the top: we know which top: its the top of the house where the person lives a house
only has one top.

the town hall: we know exactly which town hall is meant: theres only one in the
town.)

This little story should help you understand the difference betweenthe and a, an:
A man and a woman were walking in Oxford Street. The woman sawa dress that she liked
in a shop. She asked the man if he could buythe dress for her. He said: "Do you think the shop
will accept acheque? I don't have a credit card."