Welcome to your The Verbs “to be” and “to have” lesson! In this topic we talk about:
• “To be” and “to have”
• “There is”, “Ago”, “Away”
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“To be” and “to have”
“To be” and “To have” are both auxiliaries and verbs.
- “To be” followed by an adjective:
“I am cold.”
“She is right.”
“They are hungry.”
- “To be” is also used to talk about: age, the weather, health:
“How old is Brian?” “He is eleven.”
“What is the weather like?” “It is cold.”
“How are you?” “I‘m ok.”
- “To have” followed by “got” is used to express possession. “Got” disappears in the past:
“Has James got a computer?”
“They had a big car.”
- Used alone, “to have” means “take”, “do” or “possess”. Its question and negative forms are formed with the conjugated form of “do”:
“Did you have a shower this morning?”
“There is”, “Ago”, “Away”
The expressions “There is/are” are translated several ways:
- “There is”, “there are” conjugated, to describe something (“is there”, “are there” for questions):
“There are lots of people at the shop.”
- “Ago” to talk about a finished time period:
“She visited three weeks ago.”
- “Away” to talk about a distance:
“The hospital is ten kilometres away.”
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