Gramàtica i Vocabulari d'Anglès Avançat: Guia i Exercicis

Exercicis de Vocabulari i Expressions en Anglès

Exercici 2: forget to take Darren’s views into account, does she come up with, is still under the impression (continua creient una cosa), have you made up your mind (has decidit), in the mistaken belief (amb la creença equivocada), is out of the question (és impossible), you’ve now come to your senses (has entrat en raó), you are under the misapprehension (tens una idea equivocada)

Exercici 3: wits (estar atent i espavilat), wood (no veure el conjunt pels detalls), bell (sonar familiar), head (tornar-se arrogant), dark (sense informació), bend (tornar-se boig), leg (no tenir arguments), uptake (rapidesa per entendre coses)

Exercici 4: piece together (reconstruir informació), take in (assimilar informació), think up (inventar una idea o excusa), mull over (pensar profundament), come around to (acabar acceptant una idea), face up to (afrontar la realitat), figure out (descobrir o entendre), swot up on (estudiar intensament)

Exercici 5: dilemma (situació difícil de decidir), being (de moment), you’ve ever flown (has volat mai), Is Claire really thinking of (està pensant seriosament en), I’ve been calling (porto hores trucant), gather (deduir o entendre per la informació), reckon (creure o pensar informalment)

Oracions Condicionals Avançades

• 1st Conditional (Should): Should + subject + infinitive, main clause (Should you need help, call me. / Should he arrive late, we will start without him.)
• 2nd Conditional (Were): Were + subject + to + infinitive, main clause (Were he to resign, the company would collapse.)
• 3rd Conditional (Had): Had + subject + past participle, main clause (Had she arrived earlier, she would have seen him.)
• Negatives: Should/were/had + subject + not… (Had we not booked early, we would have missed the concert.)

Inversions Gramaticals en Anglès

INVERSIONS -- negatives: Negative adv + auxiliary + subject + rest

With only: only + phrase + aux (have, be, do) + S

With So/such: so -- So + adjective + be + subject + that... such -- such + be + noun + that...

Participle Clauses

→ Present participle
Verb + ing, main clause
(Walking through the park, we saw a fox. / Driving home, she called her mother.)

→ Past participle
Past participle, main clause
(Built in the 18th century, the palace attracts many tourists. / Surrounded by journalists, the actor remained calm.)

→ Perfect participle
Having + past participle, main clause
(Having completed the report, she went home. / Having studied all night, he fell asleep immediately.)

Relative Clauses

→ Defining Relative Clauses
noun + relative pronoun + clause
(The girl who lives next door is my cousin. / The car that he bought is expensive.)

→ Non-defining Relative Clauses
noun, relative clause, main clause
(My brother, who lives in Berlin, is a doctor. / Paris, which is famous for its museums, is beautiful.)

→ Formal Relative Clauses
preposition + whom/which
(The woman to whom I spoke was very polite. / The company for which he works is multinational.)