Using verb lines will make you sound more natural and will be very useful for both the Written Test and the Oral Test of the DELE exam.
Verbal periphrasis are expressions of more than one word to refer to the development of a certain action, which by the way are divided into three types: beginning, duration and end.
First of all, among the starting periphrases we can find “Start/Start...” followed by an infinitive, for example, “Start studying” or “Start learning Spanish”, among other expressions that indicate that the action is beginning.
There are also other types of beginning periphrasis that mark a more abrupt beginning, such as “Breaking...” or “Throwing in...”, always followed by an infinitive, for example “To cry”. Then, among the perifrases of duration, we can mention “To be...” followed by a gerund, such as, for example, “To be listening to music” or “To be laughing”, among others that indicate that the action is active.
Two other periphrases of duration that also indicate that the action is in process are: those that begin with the verb “To carry” accompanied by the gerund, that is, “I have been studying Spanish for 10 years” or “I have been living here for 5 years”; and those that include the verb “To follow”, also using the gerund, for example “Keep studying Spanish”, which indicates that the action began in the past and is still active in the present.
Finally, the final perimaphrases are those that indicate that the action is over. Among others, we can find “Stop/Stop...” followed by the infinitive, that is, “It has stopped/stopped raining”; or some that indicate that the action has ended very recently, such as “Finish...” or “Finish...”, such as, “I just had tea” or “I finished bathing”.
Another of the final perimaphrases, which in this case indicate that a subject feels that he has completed an action, is “To give for...” followed by the participle, for example, “To take for granted”, “To end” or “To conclude”.
Finally, we find the periphrasis used by the verb “Finish” and the infinitive, which indicates an ending that may be unwanted or whose process has been difficult. As an example, we could mention: “At first I didn't know whether to study mathematics or literature, but I ended up studying literature”.
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