KEY WORDS TO MAKE OUR ENGLISH WRITING BETTER

VERBS:
LINGUISTIC FUNCTIONS:
1.- Take place: Tener lugar, ocurrir. 1.1.- Listing points (enumerar)
2.- Develop (reg): desarrollar.
- First/ Firstly/First of all.
3.- Succeed (in) (reg): tener xito en.
- Second/ Secondly
4.- Agree (reg): estar de acuerdo.
-Third/thirdly
5.- Cause (reg): causar
- Finally/ Lastly/ last but not least.
6.- Solve (reg): solucionar.
2.- Givng examples
7.- Put an end to = fnish: poner fin a - For example
8.- Fail (in) (reg): fallar, fracasar, suspender
- For instance
9.- Deserve (reg) merecer.
- such as (como, tales como)
10. Lead -led- led: guiar, conducir a
3.- Giving personal opinions
11. Mean-meant-meant (+Ving): implicar,suponer
3. -1 agree with (something or
12. Result (in) (reg): Traer como consecuencia.
somebody)
13. Make a good/bad use of: Hacer buen/mal uso.
-1 agree that.....
14. Benefit (from): beneficiarse de.
-1 agree strongly
15. Damage (reg): perjudicar.
up to a point / to a certain extent
16. Prevent somebody from + Ving. Impedir
-1 disagree = I don't agree
17. Make sure + of/that + clause: asegurarse.
- To my mind / In my opinion / In my
18. State (reg) : afirmar, exponer,declarar.
view
19. Stress (reg): recalcar, hacer hincapi. 20- Advise
- From my point of view.
(reg): aconsejar.
4.- Making generalizations
21. Report (reg): informar, dar parte de
- In general
22. Come to a conclusin: Llegar a una conclusin
- Broadly speaking=Roughly speaking 23. Be willing (+ To Infnitve): Estar dispuesto a
Basically
24. Be unwilling: ser reacio a
5.- Expressing contrasts
25. Reject (reg) = Turn down: rechazar
-But
26. Lie-lay-lain (in): Estar tumbado/estar situado
- However=Nevertheless (sin embargo)
27. Be located: estar situado en (lugares)
-Whereas=While (mientras)
28. Have nothing to do with: no tener nada que ver
- On the one hand.....On the other
29- Share (reg): compartir
hand
30. SOME PREPOSITIONAL VERBS
- Although/ even though +-Clause
-Depend on (reg); - Insist on (reg)
- Despite = In spite of + Ving + noun.
- Listen to (reg)
- Despite/ In spite of the fact + Clause.
- Talk to (reg)
6.- Giving conclusions
-Deal with (deal-dealt-dealt): tratar de; ir sobre
- In short
-Worry about (reg)
-To sum up -In conclusion
- Care about: importar
7.- Rephrasing ideas
-Be aware of (estar enterado de)
- In other words.
- Remind someone of (reg) recordarle a alguier
-That is to say
-Suffer from (reg): padecer de
- To make a long story short (colloq)
-Belong to (reg) pertenecer .8.- Saying obvious things
- Be responsible for: ser responsable de
- Obviously/ No doubt e -There is no
- Blame (someone) for: culpar por
need to say that.....
- Have influence on: Tener influencia en
-I needn't say that...
31.- Have in common: tener en comn
-Everybody knows.....
32.- Replace (reg) sustituir
33.- Wonder (reg): preguntarse
34.- Struggle (reg): luchar, hacer todo lo posible
35.- Do one's best: Hacer algo lo mejor posible