Welcome to eoistudents' stuff Your page for learning English.: WOULD RATHER, HAD BETTER, PREFER, HAVE/GET SOMETHING DONE AND WISH

HAD BETTER or HAD BETTER NOT

§ Es mejor hacerlo o no, sino lo haces o no, habrá algún problema o peligro.

You’d better not do!

I’d better not mention it to anyone

She’d better not work so hard after your illness

What had I better do, stay in bedf all day or see a doctor?

WOULD RATHER OR WOULD RATHER NOT

§ Puedes preferir hacerlo o no. No hay peligro ni problemas

What would you rather drink, tea or coffee?

He’d rather not see a movie than go to the opera

I’d rather not go to the party alone

She’d rather speak to him at his home

PREFER TO OR LIKE......BETTER THAN

I like watching TV better than studying math

I like cold drinks better than hot drinks

I prefer apples to oranges

You prefer playing sport to doing yoga

HAVE SOMETHING DONE

Cuando organizamos que alguién más haga algo para nosotros.

Verbo “have/had” + objeto + participio pasado

Lisa had the roof repaired yesterday
Where did you have your hair cut?
I don’t like having my photograph taken
I think you should have that coat cleaned

También existe una forma informal para expresar la idea de que “alguien hace algo para tí”.

Se trata de una fórmula con el verbo “get”. Por ejemplo: “I got my car repaired” [aigat maiher riperd] es igual a decir: “I had my car repaired”. Me arreglaron el coche. Todo lo que tengo que hacer es sustituir “have/had” por “get/got” (u otros tiempos verbales).

EXERCISE 1

EXERCISE 2

If only / I wish + simple past

Example:

If only I knew how to use a computer. (I don’t know how to use a computer and I would like to learn how to use it)

Use:

· To express a wish in the present or in the future.

· The simple past here is an unreal past.

· When you use the verb to be the form is “were”.
Example:
I wish I were a millionaire!

EXERCISE 1

EXERCISE 2

EXERCISE 3