martes, 5 de noviembre de 2013

Grammar: Too - Enough

  • too + adjectives/adverb + to-infinitive (negative meaning = more/less than what is needed)
The oven is too expensive to buy. (We can't buy it, it's very expensive).

Did you boy a new fridge? No, it was too big.

This microwave is too complicated.





  • adjetive/adverb + enough + to-infinitive/noun + enough (positive meaning; as much as wanted/needed)
This mixer is easy enough to use. ( It's very easy to use. I can use it easily.) 

We have enough money to buy this iron. (We can afford to buy it).


Did you cook dinner? No, there was enough food from last night.







Grammar: Some - Any - A lot of - Much - Many.

Countable nouns are nouns we can count.

An/one apple - two apples

I eat a lot berries.

How many berries do you eat?

  • too many (more than needed)
  • a lot of/lots of
  • some/a few not many/very few
  • not any. 


Uncountable nouns are nouns we cannot count. 

(some) rice.                    (NOT: one rice, two rices)

I drink a lot of milk.

How much milk do you drink?
  • too much (more than needed)
  • a lot of/lots
  • some/a little
  • not much/very little
  • not any

Cabo San Lucas in the 50's

Cabo San Lucas, commonly called Cabo, is a city at the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula, in the Mexican state of Baja California Sur. Cabo San Lucas together with San José Del Cabo is known as Los Cabos.

In the fifties, Los Cabos was a very desert place. It  has no hotels, yatchs or tall buildings. 
Here is always be present the fishing. In the 1917 the Americans built a floating platform to catch tuna, but ten years laters they founded the Compañía de Productos Marinos S.A. In this years, this company continued working and it was the main source of employment of the population.
The famous marine didn't was in there. Cabo was a really clean and full of beautiful beaches. 

Here are some pictures about Cabo few years ago:


Partial view of what is now San Lucas Navy in 1951.


Old fish packing where generations worked in Cabo San Lucas.