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What
are the actions? |
What
is being done? |
What
is happening? |
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writing
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marking
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evaluating
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grading
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choosing
favorites |
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hitting
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striking
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playing
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making
noise |
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keeping
rhythm |
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bouncing
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going
up |
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going
down |
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falling
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rising
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hitting
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hammering
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striking
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banging
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working
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swinging
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avoiding
homework
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maintaining
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defying
gravity
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plotting
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As
you can see, each picture can represent
any number of actions. It is up to YOU,
the speaker, HOW
you want to define any given event. |
By
the same token, when you're learning vocabulary:
try to mix all the meanings into a bucket,
and picture the resulting "definition." |
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Verbs: |
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how the actions themselves
can represent a "subject"
in a sentence. |
| Banging
the
wall is stupid. |
*To
bang the
wall is stupid. |
| Walking
is
exercise. |
*To
walk
is exercise. |
| Playing
instruments
can be fun. |
*To
play instruments
can be fun. |
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| *Yeah,
yeah: Nobody talks like this
except for Germans!! Instead: |
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It is stupid
to
bang the
wall. |
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It's exercise
to
walk. |
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It can be fun
to
play
instruments. |
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What's "it?" |
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Why do we need "it?" |
Go
back to study GENDER. |
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anything about these verb forms? |
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| to
go |
to
eat |
to
think |
to
drive |
to
swim |
| to
treat |
to
buy |
to
sleep |
to
study |
to
write |
| to
call |
to
inherit |
to
sell |
to
industrialize |
to
refer |
| to
belittle |
to
extort |
to
exercise |
to
love |
to
play |
| to
take |
to
read |
to
forget |
to
revolutionize |
to
enjoy |
| to
express |
to
retort |
to
exhort |
to
prey |
to
victimize |
| to
insure |
to
ensure |
to
type |
to
phone |
to
scrutinize |
| to
investigate |
to
cajole |
to
revise |
to
replenish |
to
multiply |
| to
experience |
to
incur |
to
owe |
to
calumniate |
to
defer |
| to
pretend |
to
merit |
to
defend |
to
polish |
to
deny |
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are called "infinitives." |
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This is the plain vanilla form of
verbs in English. |
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are 3 kinds of infinitives in Spanish
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