Question tags

• He hasn’t finished yet, aux(if it’s in negative, it goes in affirmative and

the way round)+ S? Has he?

• They are sleeping, aren’t they*?

• * question tags only admit personal pronouns

• They went to school, didn’t they?

• You always study at night, don’t you?
• Let’s go out, shall we?
• I’m tired, aren’t I?
On- in- at (place- time)
• Time
• IN
• Months of the year- seasons- the morning/the afternoon/the evening- years and
centuries (in 1992)
• ON
• Days of the week- dates (12th July/July 12th)- holidays- weekdays- Christmas/Easter
(holidays)

• AT
• Night/noon/parts of the day- the time- the weekend (BE)- Christmas (25th Dec)
/Easter
On- in – at
• Place

• ON: a Surface (encima) (on a train, and the rest of the means of transport)
• On Serrano Street

• IN: inside- in a city or country(name)- (in a car/taxi)

• AT: at the traffic lights (next to/using it) there’s a knock at the door- at home- at school

• She’s at the airport

• She’s in/inside the airport
• Present perfect have/has + participle
Gerunds (playing)- inifinitive with to (to
play)- infinitive without to (play)
• Gerunds
• 1. after prepositions (thanks for coming)
• 2. as the subject of the sentence (Reading is boring)
• 3. after certain verbs (I enjoy reading)
 To infinitive
• It’s impossible to study with music after adjectives with the verb to
be
• I want to read a Good novel: after certain verbs
• She studied to pass the exam: meaning in order to
 Infinitives without to
• I can play the piano: after modals
• after let/make
• She let me go to the cinema
• She made him cry
• Would rather/had better + infinitive
 Exceptions
• Verbs that can be used with to infinitive/gerund (no change in
meaning)
• Like
• Love
• Hate + gerund/to inf
• Prefer
• dislike
Verbs followed by gerunds/to inf
• Change in meaning

• Remember/forget/regret
• Remember to water the plants
• But I remember watering the plants yesterday
• Try
• She tried to call (make an effort without success) him but he wasn’t at home, so she tried
sending (probar, no sabemos si tuvo éxito)him a whatsapp
• Mean
• I didn’t mean to make you cry (have the intention)
• Passing an exam means studying hard (significar)
• Stop
• She stopped reading and went to bed
• She stopped to go to bed