Podcast ! 🎤

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Here we decided to make something different.

This is a podcast about famous people that I did with my boyfriend Chris.

I hope you like it! 👇👇

                            

Reported speech 😎

What is it?

You can use reported speech to report what a person said without using the exact words that he or she said.

It can be used in two ways: direct and idirect speech.

Direct speech

Here you literally say what the other person said with quotation marks.

Example: Mariana said, "I am sad today."

We usually called direct speech to the positive or negative statements too.

Indirect speech

On the other hand, on idirect speech you say what the other person said, but without quotation marks. It means that you should use the word "that" to introduce what the other person said, and probably you will need to change the verb tense.

Here you have example of how to use reported speech depending on the type of tense:

 Notice that when you develop an indirect speech you change the main verb of the sentence. This is not complicated, depending on the kind of tense in which the direct speech is you must change the verb.

❄ This video will give you a deeper explantion about this topic:

Transitive and Intransitive verbs 🤓✍

Transitive verbs

💥A transitive verb is an action verb that needs a direct object to receive that action and to complete its meaning. 

💥Also, you can answer the questions "who" or what" to know if the verb of the sentence is transitive.

💥Transitive verbs follow this formula: Subject + transitive verb + object

Examples: - Lucas loves his mother. 👉 Who does Lucas love?

                  - Mónica is watching TV. 👉  What is she doing?

Intransitive Verbs

💥They are the ones that do not need a direct object receiving the action.

💥Usually, if your answer to the questions "who" or what" is not an object, let me tell you that you have an intransitive verb.

💥Intransitive verbs have a very simple formula: Subject + intransitive verb

Examples:  - Julia talks.

                   - I agree.

This video would help to understand better this kind of verbs:

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Embedded questions ❓🤔

 

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Today we are going to review a little bit about embedded questions.

First of all, what are embedded questions?

❄ This kind of question is included within another question or usually in statements. Actually, native English speakers tend to use them more than direct questions.

❄ You may say, but what is the difference between a direct and embedded question?

Here is an example:  Direct question: What time did the plane arrive?

                              Embedded question: I wonder what time the plane arrived.

❄ Another important fact that you need to know about these type of questions is that they often start with the following phases: 

Could you tell me

Do you know 

Can you tell me

I wonder (commonly in statements)

Remember: if you start a question with one of the previous expressions (except the last one), the structure of the question changes.

Example:  Regular question: Where is the library?

                 Embedded question: Can you tell me where the library is?

As you can see, embedded questions are not always an exact question, but they can be used in a sentence or even inside regular questions.

Here you have a video for a deeper explanation about this topic:

Thanks for reading.

See you in the next post! 😉

Clauses! 😎

Adjective, adverb, and 

noun clauses ⛄🎄

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Do you know the difference between a dependent and independent clause? 

❉ An independent clause is a sentence with a subject and verb that transmit a complete thought. It makes sense by itself.  

 ❉ On the other hand, a dependent clause does not express a complete thought. It is not a sentence and this type of clauses can not stand by itself. Besides, dependent clauses MUST be joined to another clause, in order to avoid creating a sentence fragment.

💥Adjective clauses 

They are subordinate clauses that describe a noun or pronoun.

Examples: 

- The TV show called Friends, which is my favorite TV series, is celebrating its 26th anniversary this year.

- I live in a country where there is no army.

💥Adverb clauses

They are dependent clauses that modify the verb, adjective, or adverb.

Examples:

- I think that chamomile tea is delicious, as long as it does not have too much sugar.

- After the storm passed, we went outside to survey the damage

💥Noun clauses

It is a subordinate clause used as a noun. Also, they can be used as:

❉ Subject

❉ Direct and indirect object

❉ Object of a preposition

❉ Predicate noun

Examples: 

- For when the true king arrives, prince Arturo will have to answer for his crimes. 

- whatever my mom cooked is fine for me.