VERB TO BE

 

Hello, I am Diana Guerrero, I am 15 years old, I live in Guayaquil-Ecuador, I study at the "César Borja Lavayen" Fiscal Educational Unit, I am in the first grade of parallel high school b.

I like basketball, volleyball, skating, crafts, drawing, reading and graphic design.

I would like to study medicine when I go to university.

My favorite subjects are mathematics, physics, biology, ECA and English.

I am going to explain and give some examples about the verb to be.

It is one of the main verbs in English. The meaning in Spanish of the verb to be is "ser" or "estar" in most cases, and the use of one or the other in this language will depend on what you want to communicate. However, in other situations, such as when talking about age, the verb to be will have a different meaning in Spanish than its use in English.

 

For example, if a person says "I am Jaime", it is understood from the context that the verb to be there is equivalent to the verb 'I am', since the person is talking about his name when saying "I am Jaime." However, if a person says "I am waiting", it makes sense that "am" takes as meaning the verb "estar", since "waiting" means 'waiting', so the person would be saying "I am waiting".

Now I am going to explain and give examples about the verb to be in affirmative, negative and interrogative.

Afirmative:

Pronombre Personal	Pronunciación	Traducción
I’m	/aim/	Yo soy
You’re	/yúr/	Tú eres, usted es
He’s	/jhis/	Él es
She’s	/Ssis/	Ella es
It’s	/its/	él es, ella es, ello es (para animales y cosas)
We’re	/wiir/	Nosotros/as somos
You’re	/yúr//	Vosotros/as sois, ustedes son
They’re	/deir/	Ellos/as son

Affirmative Sentences:

Negative:

Once we have seen the affirmative form, let's move on to see the negative form of the verb. In English, negative sentences are basically formed by adding the word not after the verb.

Pronombre Personal	Pronunciación	Traducción
I am not	/ai æm not/	Yo no soy
You are not	/yú ar not/	Tú no eres, usted no es
He is not	/jhi is not/	Él no es
She is not	/Ssi is not/	Ella not es
It is not	/it is not/	él no es, ella no es, ello no es (para animales y cosas)
We are not	/wi ar not/	Nosotros/as no somos
You are not	/yú ar not/	/Vosotros/as no sois, ustedes no son
They are not	/dei ar not/	Ellos/as no son

In the same way as before, these forms can be contracted, except for the “I am not”

Pronombre Personal	Pronunciación	Traducción
I am not	/ai æm not/	Yo no soy
You aren’t	/yu arent/	Tú no eres, usted no es
He isn’t	/jhi isent/	Él no es
She isn’t	/ssi isent/	Ella no es
It isn’t	/it isent/	él no es, ella no es, ello no es (para animales y cosas)
We aren’t	/wii arent/	Nosotros/as no somos
You aren’t	/yu arent/	/Vosotros/as no sois, ustedes no son
They aren’t	/dei arent/	Ellos/as no son

Negative Sentences:

I am not your father

He is not my son

We are not together anymore

They are not friends

Interrogative:

Asking questions with the verb “to be” is very simple, basically the only thing you have to do is change the order of the verb and the subject whether it is in the affirmative or negative mode and put the verb in the first position.

Afirmativo	Traducción	Negativo	Traducción
Am I?	¿Soy yo?	Am I not? (Como puedes observer en este caso, la forma negativa no va unida al verbo, ya que no tiene forma contraida)	¿No soy yo?
Are you?	¿Eres tú?	Aren’t You?	¿No eres tú?
Is he?	¿Es él?	Isn’t He?	¿No es él?
Is she?	¿Es ella?	Isn’t she?	¿No es ella?
Is it?	¿Es ello?	Isn’t it?	¿No es?
Are we?	¿Somos nosotros?	Aren’t we?	¿No somos nosotros?
Are they?	¿Son ellos?	Aren’t they?	¿No sois ellos?,

Interrogative Sentences:

• Are you a student?
• Is he at home?
• Are they your friends?
• Am I wrong?
• Is it raining outside?

Below I leave you a video and games about the verb to be:

Mis actividades (wordwall.net)

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