Lingue

The most logical way to do it seems to be to convert small asteroids. We will meet other forms of intelligence doing the same thing. None of the other planets is habitable without heavy engineering. We could colonise some of them.

CHANCES OF FINDING HABITABLE NEW PLANETS
These space travellers will come across another solar system with an a

Il superlativo indica che una persona o una cosa possiedono una qualità in grado superiore a chiunque altro.
Si forma ricalcando il comparativo di maggioranza con il suffisso “-est” per gli aggettivi con una sola sillaba o anteponendo “the most” agli aggettivi con due o più sillabe. L’articolo determinativo “the” precede sempre il superlativo i

Perfect conditional

FORMA AFFERMATIVA
Soggetto + would (‘d) + have + participio passato

FORMA INTERROGATIVA
Would + soggetto + have + participio passato

FORMA NEGATIVA
Soggetto + would not (wouldn’t) + have + participio passato

FORMA INTERROGATIVA NEGATIVA
Wouldn’t + soggetto + have + participio ...

Periodo ipotetico

È composto da una proposizione principale (main clause) e da una subordinata (if – clause) che esprime la condizione necessaria affinché ciò che è detto nella principale si verifichi/sia verificato.
La subordinata è generalmente introdotta da if e può seguire o precedere la proposizione principale.

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Present conditional

FORMA AFFERMATIVA
Soggetto + would (‘d) + infinito senza to

FORMA INTERROGATIVA
Would + soggetto + infinito senza to

FORMA NEGATIVA
Soggetto + would not (wouldn’t) + infinito senza to

FORMA INTERROGATIVA NEGATIVA
Wouldn’t + soggetto + infinito senza to

Present conditi...

Simple present

FORMA AFFERMATIVA
Soggetto + forma base

FORMA INTERROGATIVA
Do/does + soggetto + forma base

FORMA NEGATIVA
Soggetto + doesn’t/don’t + forma base...

The demographic revolution

For some years young people leaving school or university have experienced great difficulty in finding a job. In many parts of Britain factories and offices closed down and a lot of people were unemployed.
Every year hundreds of thousands of teenagers left school, all of them looking for a job, and this somet...

The Great Exhibition mystery
A mother and her daughter arrived in Paris from Marseilles, where they had disembarked from India. They reached their hotel, which was one of the most famous hotels in Paris, and they had booked two single rooms. They signed the register. The mother took room 342. After the mother feel ill and took to bed. The...

London was the setting of most of his novels: he seemed always to have something new to say about it.
Dickens’s first London sketches only the sayings and doings of the middle classes were describes, and chiefly in a comic manner.
Dickens gradually developed a more radical view of the social scene, although he did not become a revolutionary thin

He has never been able to dance (Non ha mai saputo ballare).
It is difficult to be able to speak a foreign language well (È difficile saper parlare bene una lingua straniera).
If you could give me his address I’d write to him (Se tu potessi darmi il suo indirizzo, gli scriverei).

Troviamo spesso “can” usato soprattutto