Ejercicio 4 · Los matices

Ficha 3 · Los matices (difícil)

Elige la opción correcta.

1. ¿Cuál es correcta (1)?It was so a good day.It was such good day.It was such a good day.It was so good a day.such a good day. Con sustantivo contable en singular hace falta a, y so no admite sustantivo detrás.
2. ¿Cuál cambia el sentido?Significan lo mismo.Solo cambia el registro.too heavy es más suave.The bag is too heavy. / The bag is very heavy.Cambian. Too heavy implica que no puedes con ella; very heavy solo dice que pesa mucho.
3. He isn’t tall ___ to reach it.enoughtoososuchenough detrás del adjetivo. Too tall significaría lo contrario.
4. ¿Cuál es correcta (2)?I have money enough.Las dos, pero la segunda es lo normal.I have enough money.Ninguna.La segunda es lo normal. Delante de sustantivo va enough money; money enough es correcto pero suena literario.
5. It was ___ an expensive hotel that we left.sotoosuchenoughsuch an expensive hotel. Fíjate en an por el sonido vocálico de expensive.
6. There is ___ information to process.too manyso manysuch muchtoo muchtoo much information. Information es incontable.
7. ¿Cuál es correcta (3)?She is too young to drive.She is too young for drive.She is too young that she drives.She is so young to drive.too young to drive. La estructura fija es too + adjetivo + to + infinitivo.
8. The room was ___ small that we couldn’t all sit.suchsotooenoughso small that. So + adjetivo + that introduce la consecuencia. Too no lleva that detrás.
9. ¿Cuál es correcta (4)?We had such a bad luck.We had so bad luck.We had such bad luck.We had a such bad luck.such bad luck. Luck es incontable, así que va sin a.
10. El coche es demasiado caro para comprarlo.The car is too expensive to buy it.The car is enough expensive to buy.The car is so expensive to buy.The car is too expensive to buy.too expensive to buy, sin repetir it. El objeto ya está en el sujeto de la frase, y repetirlo es un error muy típico del español.