VERB TO BE
O verbo to be equivale aos verbos ser e/ou estar em português. A conjugação do verbo to be no presente simples (simple present) é:
Exemplos:
I’m Brazilian.
She’s a very intelligent girl.
They are engineers at Petrobras.
You are on the 10th floor.
I’m not in São Paulo now. I’m in Rio.
He isn’t a good soccer player.
We are not doctors, we are engineers.
Are you a scientist at Instituto Vital Brasil?
Are they near the beach?
Is It a good Hospital?
VERBOS THERE IS, THERE ARE
Os verbos There is, There are estão no tempo presente e equivalem ao verbo haver no sentido de existir em português. There is é usado antes de coisas ou pessoas no singular, e there are é usado antes de coisas ou pessoas no plural.
Exemplos:
There is much information on TV.
There are many students in that school.
There isn’t any car in the garage.
There aren’t many people in the stadium.
Is there much sugar in the pot?
Are there three rooms in that house?
