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PORTFOLIO ENGLISH LEVEL VIII

DOCENTE
OMAIRA FLOREZ

ALUMNO
LINA URDANETA ANGULO
CODIGO 6000912561

UNIVERSIDAD LA GRANCOLOMBIA
CENTRO DE IDIOMAS
INGLES
NIVEL VIII


PORTFOLIO

SUMMARY

1. Order of the tag adjectives
2. Passive voice
3. Indirect speech
4. Tag questions
5. Say/ Tell
6. Relative clauses
7. Reported Questions
8.Vocabulary

1. ORDER OF THE TAG ADJETIVES
Description: Adjectives decribe nouns (a big house). They have the same form in the singular and plural.
* Go before nouns, They can also be used alone after the verb to be and after verbs such as: look, smell, sound, feel, taste, etc.
* There are two kinds of adjectives:
* Opinion adjectives: wich show what a person thinks of somebodyor something
* Fact adjectives: wich give us factual information about age, size, color, etc.
Order of Adjectives
Opinión | Size | Age | Shape | Color | Origen | Material | Noun |
Cute | Big | Old | Round | Blue | Spanish | Plastic | table |

Examples:
1. A square grey metallic object
2. A round yellow plastic ball
3. An old rectangular italian box4. A small modern Green base

2. PASSIVE VOICE
Description: We form the passive with the verb to be in the appropiate tense and the past participle or the main verb. Only transitive verbs ( verbs wich take an object) can be used in the passive. (live dos not have a passive form)

* We use the passive:
* When the persono r people vho do the action are unknown,unimportant or obvious from the context. “her bag was stolen” (we don`t know who stole it). “The bike is being repaired” (it`s important who is rapairing it). “The thieves were arrested” ( it`s obvious that the pólice arrested them).
* When the action itself is more important than the person who do it, as in news headlines, news paper articles, formal notices, advertisements, instuctions,processes, etc.
* When we want to avoid taking respondability for an action or when we refer to an aunpleassant event and we do not want tos ay who or what is to blame.
* Changing from the active to the passive:
* The object of the active sentence becomes the subject in the passive sentence.
* The active verb remains in the same tense but changes into a passive form
*The subject of the active sentence becomes the agent, and is either intoduced with the preposition by ori s omitted.
Shakespeare | Wrote | Hamlet |
Subject | Verb | Complement |

Hamlet | Was written | by Shakespeare |
Complement is subject now | Verb (passive) | Subject is complement |

Examples:
1. My mother bakes cakes
a. The cakes are made by my mother2. Peter is washing his car
b. The car is being washed by Peter
3. The engineers are going to design a bridge
c. The bridge was designed by the engineers
4. The children did their homework last night
d. Their homework was done by the children last night.
5. Peter makes chairs
e. Chairs are made by Peter
6. Gabo wrote “one hundred years ofsolitude”
f. “one hundred years of solitude” was written by Gabo
7. My father bought a car last week
g. A car was bought last week by my father
8. My sister writes stories
h. Stories are written by my sister
9. My uncle is selling cars
i. The cars are being sold by my uncle
10. The car hit a girl
j. A girl was hit by the car
11. Thestorm has destroyed the town
k. The town has been destroyed by the storm

3. INDIRECT SPEECH
Reported Speech
Is the exact meaning of what someone said, but not the exact words. We don`t use quotation marks. The Word that can either be used or omitted after introductory verb (say,tell,etc).
Reported speech refers to a sentence reporting what someone has said. It is almost...