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We all know that “¿Cómo está él?” means “How is he?”. Here, we’re asking about his current state or emotion, if he’s well, sick, happy, sad, etc.

But the question “¿Cómo es él?” would also seem to be “How is he?”. Obviously, they both can’t be the same question, and they aren’t—we have two set questions to express those ideas:

Thank you so much. Tonight, more than 200 years after a former colony won the right to determine its own destiny, the task of perfecting our union moves forward. It moves forward because of you. It moves forward because you reaffirmed the spirit that has triumphed over war and depression, the spirit that has lifted […]

These are two very confusing verbs, because they’re both “decir” in Spanish.

One easy trick to know when to use which one is by knowing what follows each verb.

Say is usually followed by the words spoken.
The person they’re spoken to may be mentioned optionally after “to”

Put the following words in order to form a grammatically correct sentence.

1. Madrid. / I / in / week / was / last
2. uniform / wear / to / at / We / work. / have / a
3. enough / study / She / doesn´t
4. still / haven´t / Mark / seen / We

Here are 5 sentences with common errors made by non-native English speakers. [Opportunities Photo]
Correct the errors and then check them against the corrected sentences below.
I have seen Mike yesterday.
Tell to Ann.
This is the house who I like.
Do you know if she lik

Put the following words in order to form a grammatically correct sentence.

1. about/ having / How / pizza?
2. many/ people / were / How / there?
3. you / where / from? / Do / is / know / Johnny

Here are 5 sentences with common errors made by non-native English speakers.
Correct the errors and then check them against the corrected sentences below.

There are not plates left.
Is this a person you told me about?

We use “had better” (= ´d better) to give strong advice. It is followed by infinitive without to. Have a look at the following examples:

You´d better not get home late again.

The train leaves at 6. You´d better start packing now!

In English in order to express a preference for something we can use I´d rather (=I would rather):

Subject + would rather + subject + past tense

I´d rather you didn´t tell my parents I am having a party on Saturday.
I´d rather we went to Cádiz, but my mom wants to go to Mallorca.

In English we can use whoever to mean “it doesn´t matter who”. Let´s have a look at the following examples:

Whoever painted this is a genius!
Whoever calls, tell them I am not available.