Pronombres
Uso de pronombres
El uso de palabras que hacen referencia a otras en un mismo texto como son los pronombres hace que nuestra redacción sea más ágil al evitar repeticiones innecesarias.
· Pronombres he, she, it, they, them, her, theirs, … para referirnos a personas o cosas.
· Demostrativos this, that, these or those para hacer referencia a personas, objetos, situaciones o acciones.
There are many working children all over the world. Some of them are employed in agriculture, others in factories where they may work for long hours under difficult conditions, often ruining their health at an early age. Children make up an important part of the workforce in some countries
Actividades
¿A qué se refieren las palabras que están subrayadas?
· As the boys climbed the stairs, they heard a noise.
· I screamed loudly and woke everyone up. I shouldn’t have done that!
· Michael and I were alone in the castle. We didn’t feel very safe. It was a huge building and very scary too.
· I don’t like these shoes but I like those.
· All the paintings in the museum are interesting but these are my favourite.
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Ghost means business
Mr and Mrs Gordon had wanted to move to a larger, more comfortable house for some time. Last year Mr and Mrs Gordon finally had enough money to do so. Mr and Mrs Gordon’s children were less keen on the move as they loved the area where they lived and didn’t want to leave the area.
When the time came to sell their house, however, the Gordons discovered that selling their house would not be such a simple matter, it seems that they had a neighbour, Mrs Smith, who was jealous of their success. The neighbour was prepared to do anything to prevent them selling their house. Every time potential buyers came to see the house, she frightened the potential buyers off by telling them that the house was haunted by ghosts so the Gordons had great difficulty in selling the house.
Nevertheless, many curious people came to see the “haunted” house. Mr Gordon, who was a clever man, decided to turn his house into a business asset. Mr Gordon used his technical knowledge to make the house seem really haunted. In the end, Mr Gordon was grateful to his jealous neighbour. The house soon became a popular visiting place for lovers of the supernatural. People paid a lot of money to visit the house. By the time people discovered the hoax, Mr Gordon had made enough money to buy the house of his dreams and go on a cruise around the world.