2 Minute Lessons

Find the mistake in each sentence and fix it!

I have lived there until 1999.
Who did sing “Imagine”?
The life is beautiful.
He is an special person.
It’s raining all day!

This expression is a piece of advice on how to get revenge. Normally, one gets revenge while extremely angry. This piece of wisdom instead suggests that instead of being mean or rude, we should be extremely and genuinely nice and polite to the wrongdoer.

– “I can’t believe how incompetent you are! Even a 5-year-old could do this better than you! You’re useless!!!”

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:

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

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.

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.

Incorrect sentences:

1. Maria shouldn´t to buy that dress, it is too small for her.

2. When I was little, I use to ride my bike almost every day.

3. What will you do if you won the lottery?

Let´s have a look at the following sentences. What is the difference in meaning between them? Carlos has had this car since 1996 Carlos had this car in 1996. The first sentence means that Carlos bought the car in 1996 and he still has the car. In the second sentence, Carlos had the car in […]

Can, could, and be able to are used to express ability.

Can expresses ability in the present

I can speak English but I can´t speak French

Could expresses ability in the past