El curso más completo de inglés Flashcards

These flashcards cover key terminology, grammar rules, vocabulary, and teaching methods from Omar Ali Caldela's comprehensive English course transcript.

76

The total number of chapters contained in the 'El curso más completo de inglés' course.

One Year

The approximate timeframe recommended to finish the course if a student learns one lesson every two days.

Association of Ideas

A study method consisting of relating or associating a mental image (place, thing, name, animal, etc.) with the word to be learned.

Transitive Action

An action directed towards or affecting a person or object directly (e.g., 'I open the door').

Intransitive Action

An action that is not directed towards or does not affect a person or object (e.g., 'The door opens').

Subject Pronouns

The people performing an action in a sentence: I, You, We, They, He, She, and It.

Present Progressive

A tense used to indicate an action happening at a specific moment in the present, constructed as: Person + 'to be' + action with 'ing'.

Articles: A and An

Words meaning 'a' or 'an'; 'an' is used before a vowel sound, and 'a' is used before a consonant sound.

Adverb of Frequency: Always

A word indicating that an action occurs $100\%$ of the time.

Adverb of Frequency: Never

A word indicating that an action occurs $0\%$ of the time.

Comparatives (Short Adjectives)

Comparing two things by adding 'er + than' to the adjective (e.g., 'taller than').

The same. . . As

A comparison structure used with nouns to indicate identical characteristics.

Superlatives (Long Adjectives)

Comparing three or more things by placing 'the most' or 'the least' before the adjective.

Reflexive Pronouns

Pronouns like 'myself', 'yourself', and 'himself' used when an action happens to the person performing it or to emphasize they did it alone.

Object Pronouns

The people who receive an action in a sentence: me, you, him, her, it, us, you, and them.

Countable Nouns

Things that can be counted individually, such as hotels, bicycles, or friends.

Uncountable Nouns

Substances or concepts that cannot be counted, such as beer, milk, water, money, and sugar.

Modal: Can

An auxiliary verb used to express a physical or mental ability or possibility.

Modal: Must

An auxiliary verb used to express necessity, a logical conclusion, moral obligation, or prohibition.

Simple Future

Expresses a plan or action likely to be realized in the distant future, using the auxiliary 'will'.

Causative: Have

A structure used to indicate someone is doing something for us, followed by the action in its simple present form.

Causative: Get

A structure used to indicate someone is doing something for us, requiring the following action to be in the infinitive form (with 'to').

Relative Pronoun: Who

A pronoun used only with people to provide extra information (e.g., 'The man who is playing…').

Relative Pronoun: Which

A pronoun used for objects or animals to provide extra information.

Reciprocal Pronouns

Words like 'each other' (between two people) and 'one another' (between three or more people) indicating mutual action.

Passive Voice

A construction where the person receives the action or the action falls indirectly on the person, formatted as: to be + past participle action.

Phrasal Verbs (Separable)

Two-word verbs where an object pronoun can be placed between the action and the preposition (e.g., 'Call them up').

Phrasal Verbs (Inseparable)

Two-word verbs where the action and preposition must stay together, with the object pronoun following the preposition (e.g., 'Look for them').

Used To

A phrase indicating that an action was a habit or occurred frequently in the past.

Anymore

A term used in negative and interrogative sentences to indicate that an action no longer continues.