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Present Simple Passive Voice Examples

1. Emails are sent.
2. The grass is cut.
3. Chocolate is preferred.
4. Cars are often stolen.
5. Loud music is played.
6. English is spoken here.
7. The London parks are loved.
8. Staff is wanted.
9. Articles are written.
10. Julie is loved.
11. A lot of books are read.
12. Dinner is cooked every day.
13. Milk is delivered in the mornings.
14. Flowers are bought for the flat.
15. The cars are washed every week.
16. A report is written every Friday.
17. The roads are fixed.
18. New houses are built every year.
19. Vegetables are sold in the market.
20. The office is cleaned every day.

Past Simple Passive Voice Examples

1. The key was found.
2. Mistakes were made.
3. That woman was loved.
4. The rooms were cleaned.
5. The computer was fixed.
6. That house was built.
7. War and Peace was written.
8. The Mona Lisa was painted.
9. My

English Grammar Essentials

Modal Verbs and Semi-Modals

• Semi-Modals:
  • Have to (tener que): Expresses obligation.
  • Be able to (ser capaz de): Expresses ability.
• Modal Verbs:
  • Ability: Can / Could (podría, pude) / Will be able to (será capaz de).
  • Advice: Should (debería), Ought to (debería).
    • Present and Future: Should / Ought to.
    • Past (3rd form): Should have + past participle (deberías haber...).
  • Possibility:
    • Present: May (puede que...).
    • Future: Might (podría).
    • Past (3rd form): Might have + past participle (podría haber...).
  • Obligation:
    • Present and Future: Must (debes).
    • Present and Future: Have to (tienes que).

Verbs Followed by TO + Infinitive

Used after verbs expressing:

• Mental Actions: plan, forget, manage, agree, learn, promise, prepare, need, hope, decide,

Understanding Medical Terminology: Eponyms, Acronyms, and Word Parts

Eponyms. The word 'eponym' is derived from the Greek words 'epi' (upon) + 'onyma' (name). It literally means "to put your name on something." Thus, an eponym is a word formed by including the name of the person who discovered or invented whatever is being described. Sometimes, in the case of diseases, an eponym is named in honor of the disease’s first or most noteworthy diagnosed victim.

Acronyms. The word 'acronym' is derived from the Greek words 'acro' (high, end) + 'onyma' (name). It literally means "to make a name with the ends." Thus, an acronym is a word made up of the first letters of each of the words that make up a phrase. One example is the diagnostic imaging process... Continue reading "Medical Terminology: Eponyms, Acronyms, Roots, Prefixes, and Suffixes" »

Logistics and Transport Terminology

Transport Contract Types

1) Multimodal Transport

This type of contract usually requires at least two different modes of transport, such as motor lorry by road and aircraft by air.

Intermodal Transport

Sometimes the freight is transported in the same loading unit, but more than one mode of transport is used.

Equipment and Vehicles

2) Road Railer Trailer

It is a vehicle in which goods are transported by land.

3) Reach Stacker

It is used in sectors of the port industry. The reach stacker can lift, load, move, and lower containers quickly, efficiently, and uniquely.

4) Flat Rack Container

These containers lack side walls and, as appropriate, even front and rear walls. They are used for atypical loads and pay supplements... Continue reading "Logistics Terminology: Transport Unit Definitions" »

Se ve repugnante : it is look revolting ! Yuck : asqueado,Fue un desastre : it was a disaster , No importa : never mind , Lo superarás ; You´ll get over it , Whoops :    Ten cuidado : Be careful! , Eso esta hecho : That´s done  , Que sorpresa tan agradable : What a nice surprise; Glotones : Greedy guts! , Suficiente para todos : enought to go round , Ya estamos otra vez : Here we go again !

Rosa Parks

• On January 15, 1955, she was arrested because she did not give up her seat on the bus for a white passenger.
• At 19, she married Raymond Parks, a frisör, and worked at NAACP.
• Rosa worked as a secretary at NAACP and part-time as a seamstress.
• On December 5, 1955, the bus boycott began with Martin Luther King Jr. as the leader.
• The bus boycott led to the lifting of segregation in buses and trains.
• Due to threats, Rosa and her husband moved to Detroit.
• She died on October 24, 2005.

Julia Butterfly Hill

• She is an environmental activist.
• From December 14, 1997, she lived on a tree named Luna for 738 days.
• She demonstrated against deforestation.
• In 1999, an agreement was reached with the company that wanted to cut down the trees in the forest.
• They

Intelligence and Testing

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following allows us to compare scores from individuals who differ in age or educational background? (A- Standardization)
2. Carla takes a personality test and obtains very different scores each time she takes it. This test has: (B- Low reliability)
3. The test described above does not have high: (D- Test-retest reliability)
4. The measure of math ability should tell us how well an individual will perform in jobs related to mathematics. This refers to: (E- Predictive validity)
5. When females take examinations with males, their scores are noticeably lower than scores obtained when they take the test by themselves. This finding illustrates: (A- Stereotype threat)
6. Which of the following is considered

Comparativos:

Older than, bigger than, easier than, more modern than, more difficult than.

Good: better, Bad: worse, Fur: farther. + than

More bored, more stressed, more tired. + than

Faster than, more slowly than, more powerful than, more carefully than.

Well: better, Badly: worse.

Superlativos:

The tallest, the most experience, the least expensive, the best, the most, the worst, the most famous. (more, as, the, than, ever, him, most, in).

Artículos:

(a, an, the, nada)

• A nice house, a lawyer, an old man, a dog, an awful day, a week, a nurse, a horrible day, once a month, a chef, a week, an amazing, a housewife, a teacher, a problem.
• The dog, the bell, the children, the moon, the Earth, the cinema, the best, the hospital, the car, the theatre, the windows,