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MODIFICADORES DEL SUSTANTIVO

MODIFICADORES DEL SUSTANTIVO

Objetivos
Que el alumno: 1. Contraste la posición de los adjetivos en inglés y español respecto al sustantivo.
2. Reconozca la forma y la función de los adjetivos en inglés.

ACTIVIDAD 1
En los siguientes textos, decide si la palabra en negritas es un sustantivo, adjetivo o verbo.

TEXTO I
GLOBALIZATION PROTESTS

At the 1) end of November 1999, 2) government 3) leaders from around the world will 4) gather in Seattle at the 5)
Third 6) Ministerial 7) Summit of the 8) World 9) Trade 10) Organization (WTO). Feeling the 11) need to articulate
a campaign around which the 12) entire 13) international 14) labor 15) movement could unite in 16) its struggle to
defeat the 17) global 18) corporate 19) agenda, the 20) Organizing 21) Committee of the 22) Open 23) World 24)

Conference in Defense of Trade Union Independence and 25) Democratic Rights (OWC) 26) issued an “Open
Letter to the Heads of State Attending the World Trade Organization Summit in Seattle.” The 27) labor 28)

committee’s 29) Open 30) Letter 31) calls on government leaders to 32) ratify, implement and enforce fully the 33)

Conventions of the International Labor Organization (ILO).

TEXTO II
LIFE INSURANCE

1) Life 2) insurance 3) provides a 4) monetary 5) benefit to a 6) decedent's 7) family or other 8) designated 9)

beneficiary, and may specifically provide for income to an 10) insured 11) person's 12) family, burial, funeral
and other 13) final 14) expenses. Life insurance policies often 15) allow the option of having the proceeds paid to
the beneficiary either in a lump sum 17) cash payment or an 18) annuity. In most states, a person cannot 19)

purchase a policy on another person without their 20) knowledge.

Annuities 21) provide a stream of payments and are generally 22) classified as insurance because they are issued
by insurance companies, are regulated as insurance, and require the same kinds of actuarial and 23) investment
24) management 25) expertise that life insurance requires. Annuities and pensions that pay a benefit for life are
sometimes regarded as insurance against the possibility that a 26) retiree will 27) outlive his or her 28) financial 29)
resources. In that sense, they are the complement of life insurance and, from an 30) underwriting perspective,
are the mirror image of life insurance.

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ACTIVIDAD 2
Con la ayuda de tu diccionario, escribe la versión español de las siguientes oraciones.

1. The financial investor is requiring a bear with experience.

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2. They do not bear the situation.

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3. This document does not bear your signature.

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4. “CPA” means Certified Public Accountant.

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5. All possible means have been used.

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6. That´s a mean imitation of an artwork.

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7. He is a mean man, unlike his generous brother.

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8. The committee voted to table the legislation until next month.

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9. I need a new car insurance policy.

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10. Human wants have not been fully satisfied.

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11. I state my ideas clearly.

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12. The new president´s success did not last.

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13. He took a two-month leave of absence to travel.

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14. He was in briefs.

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15. She has a strong will.

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ACTIVIDAD 3
Escribe la versión español de las siguientes oraciones.

1. The subsidies would go towards grain and cooking oil seed farmers.
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2. Sales promotion methods were not used for the Edsel’s launching.
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3. Auditing is an accounting function.

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4. The direct assistance program will replace the customs laws.

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5. A critical attitude lasts forever.

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6. Some important marketing policies will have been functioning for three years in 2022.
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7. Our industry is marketing new products.

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8. Contemporary human resource management needs to promote organizational performance.

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9. Our retailing system had decreased in the same period.

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10. The merchant is retailing the new product at $7.00.

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11. Kale Ki’s economic writings are impartial exercises in highly technical economic analyses.
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12. During this expansion era, a sustained industrial growth rate was seen in developed capitalist countries.
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13. A purely technical analysis of the current financial position of the non-oil developing countries would suggest
that defaults are inevitable.
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