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To Be Verb For what is for to be verb? And why always start at here?

The structures whit to be verb works for communication between several useful aspects like taking about someone (name, nationality, career, feelings), and describe the features of something or someone (what is that?, the color, form who this belong). This multiple purposes such important are the reason why almost all the English courses start with the to be verb. However, even when the grammar its so important, there is a huge variety of words in the vocabulary that have relation with to be verb, and lost the meaning if only learn the grammar without the corresponding words. For example Whats the point to kwon the use of to be verb to talk about someone profession if we dont know the most common professions at least? Thats useless. We have to pay special attention to the usual mistakes presents in the people who speak Spanish, for example, in Castilian use the verb have to say I have cold, but in English we use to say Im cold, and they use to say Not right without the use of it is, because in English the right for is Its not right.

Subject Pronouns: First, you need to know the similarities with some words in Spanish know like subject pronouns: I= yo, You= t, He= l, She= ella, It= ello, We= nosotros and They= ellos. The to be verb usually its accompanied by the subjects pronouns, but in Spanish its not necessary the pronoun "He is American" = "Es americano". And thats why many students fall in the same mistake when the say "is American" o "not is American", when the right for its "He's not American" in English.

La estructura bsica del verbo "to be":


La estructura bsica del afirmativo del verbo "to be" Afirmativo Sujeto I You He She It We You They Verbo am are is is is are are are objeto / complemento a student. happy. John. in the car. a hot day. David's parents. from Madrid. ours. Soy alumno. Eres feliz. Es John. Est en el coche. Es un da caluroso. Somos los padres de David. Sois de Madrid. Son nuestros.

La estructura bsica del negativo del verbo "to be" (To be negative) Negativo Sujeto I You He She It We You They Verbo am not are not is not is not is not are not are not are not objeto / complemento a student. happy. John. in the car. a hot day. David's parents. from Madrid. ours.
(con y sin contraccin)

No soy alumno. No eres feliz. No es John. No est en el coche. No es un da caluroso. No somos los padres de David. No sois de Madrid. No son nuestros.

La estructura bsica del interrogativo del verbo "to be" Interrogativo Verbo Am Are Is Sujeto I you he objeto / complemento a student? happy? John? Soy alumno? Eres feliz? Es John?

Is Is Are Are Are

she it we you they

in the car? a hot day? David's parents? from Madrid? ours?

Est en el coche? Es un da caluroso? Somos los padres de David? Sois de Madrid? Son nuestros?

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