But here, in the same way, there is a clear difference in the constructions of the Russian impersonal and the English impersonal. And the first thing you need to do is focus yourself on this difference, understand what it’s about.
In Russian impersonal sentences there is no subject of action at all. In the indefinitely personal he is, this subject, the one who acts. His name and place of residence are simply unknown. “Do they like Shakespeare in your country?” - this is a vaguely personal turn of phrase. “Yes, in our country they love Shakespeare very much.” Who? Well, someone loves, since he claims. But who exactly? – we don’t know. That is, in indefinitely personal phrases there is a character, he is only not defined. And what kind of Russian impersonal sentences are we saying, that there is no actor? “It’s getting light,” “it’s getting dark,” “it’s getting colder,” “it’s getting warmer” - these are all Russian full-fledged sentences for Russian grammar impersonal type. Or, for example, now we will read in Retman: “Today it is very warm, yesterday it was much colder” - both parts of this sentence are impersonal for Russians. See, “It’s very warm today.” Where is the character here? "Today"? No, this is a circumstance of time - when? And then comes the “warmth”. “It’s warm today” - that’s all. There is nothing at all in impersonal Russian sentences except the information itself. And that suited us. And when we take this proposal to English translation, they say: “No, guys. Here we are again forced to argue. We are prohibited from putting such proposals into practice.”
And therefore, the British build their impersonal sentences using not just an artificial subject, but with the help of an artificial construction from a subject and a verb. And these designs are: it is, it was, it will be. First of all these three. They are not translated into Russian. Well, the verb can be translated, but the subject is never translated into Russian.
Example: " It is cold today" - "it is cold today". " It was much warmer yesterday" This sentence is in Present Indefinite Tense because today, and therefore is. This sentence is in Past Indefinite Tense - yesterday, and here it is was. And it needs to be translated from the end: “Yesterday it was much warmer.”
The British have a lot of such proposals. And sometimes they are understandable to a Russian, like these. And sometimes Russians start to grab their heads. See example: " ItwaslatespringwhenStevefirstmetJane" Translation into Russian: “It was late spring when Steve first saw Jane.” You will say: “Well, this is no big deal, it’s completely incomprehensible.” Why spring is not the subject here? After all, for the Russians “It was spring,” what did spring do? - was. Here's the subject, here's the action. Friends, no, this is not a subject. Spring- this is a circumstance of time. When did Steve first meet Jane? - when it was spring, late spring. And this sentence can be easily remade, then everything will really become clear: “He met her in late spring.” Or “in early spring he met her.” Then it is 100% clear that this is not a subject. You will say: “Well, okay, okay, let’s not argue with this. But here's what's due to you Steve and action met" Yes, everything is really correct here. Steve actor, met- his actions. And if this sentence were rewritten starting with the word Steve: « StevefirstmetJanewhenwas... or simply… inlatespring… or … lateinspring”, then this proposal would become personal. Because we would have focused everything on Steve. But since we started the sentence with this word, and made it the subject, then everything that follows it is forced to join the overall game. This sentence is considered impersonal.
Sometimes it is difficult for us to understand each other with Russians. See an example from our famous American, we have already quoted him. His novel “For Whom the Bells Toll.” There is a phrase there: “ It was drizzling rain when our plane landed in Madrid" Who is author? ErnestHemingway. For Russians, the sentence will be translated correctly as follows: “It was lightly raining when our plane landed in Madrid.” This sentence can be translated in another way: “It was drizzling when our plane landed in Madrid.” But no matter how you translate it into Russian, and no matter how it turns out to be personal for the Russians, I don’t know, in English it is here. And in English this is an impersonal type.
(Wed.) Itwas is a sign that it is impersonal?
(Ex.) Yes, although it maybe 100% in the personal version. " Itismyfriend" - "this is my friend" - it is considered in in this case personal. " Itisatable" - "this is a table" - this is a personal case. We translated it into Russian in this case the word it- This. And here is the same one it, it would seem, but we didn’t translate it into Russian. We didn’t say, “It was raining.” We said: “There was a light rain/drizzle.”
(Art.) That is, it won’t be a mistake if we translate it not in an impersonal form, but in a personal form? Wouldn't that be a mistake? Let's say that when constructing an English sentence it is impersonal, but in translation it was translated as a personal sentence.
(Ex.) Try it.
(Art.) You yourself said, “It was raining lightly.”
(Ex.) I walked... I found a pie. The English don't rain at all. For them, rain works either as a noun - rain(rain), or itself becomes a verb – torain. That's all. And in Russian torain, look into normal good dictionary, there should be a translation like this: to go (about rain). And if you say rain went, everyone will move five meters away from you, looking at you warily. They will say: “You can expect anything from such a person if it rains ( went)».
(St.) No, I understand writing in English. And when translating into Russian, is it necessary to dodge and translate it, too, impersonally, or can it be translated personally?
(Ex.) I just said this. I said that it often happens that for them it is impersonal, but for Russians it becomes personal - “It was raining.” Although I’m also not very sure that “It Was Raining” is personal. “It was drizzling lightly,” maybe.
(Art.) It can be translated as “It was rainy when our plane...”.
(Ex.) “It was rainy”, if you want to use it, they will take a slightly different transfer scheme. They'll say " Itwasrainy" Here it is literally: “It was rainy.” But this is not in Russian, by the way. You can't say that in Russian.
In short, I say again, “It was lightly raining when our plane landed in Madrid.” This is how it should be written. And for the British this is a 100% impersonal offer. There is no actor. And the fact that it was “raining” for the Russians doesn’t bother the British.
(Art.) A drizzling This?
(Ex.) We will soon pass the “weather” and take it all there.
English impersonal phrases also include the following: “ It'sveryfarfromheretomynativecity" One complains to the other, feels not very comfortable in some kind of new country, environment and says: “ It'sveryfarfromheretomynativecity" Translation: "From here to mine" hometown very far". Often instead of a word native they will take myhomecity. This is also a normal image for them: “the city of my home.” For the Russians, I don’t know what it is, it’s clearly impersonal. “Far away” there is not even a character, there is nothing, there is no subject, there is not even a predicate. They have a subject, and a predicate, but both are actually artificial.
To the impersonal English sentences sentences with the following phrases also apply: itseems(it seems) it can work in Past’e. I don’t remember from which author, but there is a phrase like this: “ Itseemednobodynoticedherleave- “no one seemed to notice how she left.” This is a purely English literary phrase from original text. You can translate it a little differently: “no one seemed to notice her leaving.”
(Art.) Leave how can a noun work?
Let's move on. This was the first. Second - ithappens. This is an impersonal turn. There is no longer a verb here is, but it's still an impersonal version. Translation into Russian: “it turns out.” There are a million such Russian sentences: “It turns out that it was he who helped us.”
And third - itappears(obviously, apparently). There are a little more of them, these revolutions, but you should know these three, because they work everystep.
Your questions, ladies and gentlemen?
(Art.) Sentences with only personal pronouns?
(Ex.) Why? “Mr Pickwick came later than usual” - personal. There must be a person, and what it is expressed by is a person, a pronoun, or a surname, or a proper name (table) - these are all personal. “The window was dirty and you couldn’t see anything through it.” "Window" character. This is a personal offer.
Attention, if everything is clear, we take Retman, because this is exactly where he started.
Do you agree that this is alternative question ? Do you agree that it is impersonal in both its parts? Do you agree that its first part is built in Present Indefinite (Simple), and the second in Present Continuous Tense(Progressive)? Could this be possible? Yes, of course, here's your confirmation. By the way, the Russians “ it's raining", and we have "isitraining" This is “rainy”, “rainy” for that matter.
You laugh, but in Alaska we were clearly taught exactly the same way as gold miners did in the 19th century. They go out into the street and spit in front of them, and if the saliva reaches the ground liquid, it’s normal, you can work on the street. And if already in flight it begins to crackle in these few seconds, a fraction of a second, and falls like ice, you can’t work that day, you can catch a cold in your lungs. They have a very interesting situation in Alaska. They have mountains in the middle of the state, very high 7000-meter mountains, the highest in the entire North American continent. In the South, the Cordilleras and Andes are high. And in America there are mountains, although the Rocky Mountains, all this is in the southern States. When you fly, say, from San Francisco towards Dallas, you fly through this entire territory. That's what they're called -RockyMountains(Rocky Mountains). But they are not that tall. And there are 7000 nicknames. Even though it is cold, there is always eternal snow at the top, even in summer. So, up to these mountains from the south the weather is very decent, somewhat reminiscent of Vologda, Pskov, cool, but very decent. It happens until 23-25 in the summer. There are heaps of berries, fish like this are caught in mountain rivers. All of America comes there, fishes and generally relaxes. But as soon as you cross the mountains, everything is already there Arctic Ocean, and even in summer it never gets more than 5 degrees. Well, in winter there is complete revelry.
Open the 66th for a second, find the drawing. Everything there is already on fire, it seems, but he says “it’s hot”, not just warm, but hot. All.Friends, let's stop there.
The English language differs from the Russian language in that a sentence must have a subject and a predicate, the main clauses of the sentence.
Construction impersonal offers
However, often sentences lack an actor and a verb denoting action. Thus, the sentence becomes impersonal, but a subject and predicate are formally necessary to maintain the structure of the sentence. In this case, the place of the subject is replaced by an impersonal pronoun, if it can be called that, it. And the function of the predicate will be performed by a copular verb to be.
For example, It is hot today. Today it's hot.
The most common impersonal sentences in English language are sentences about the weather, seasons, time, distance, etc. Today we will look at suggestions about the weather and seasons. In Russian, impersonal sentences sound like this.
It's cold outside. Winter. It's getting dark.
In English, such sentences can be constructed using general scheme: it + to be + adjective, noun.
Dictionary “Weather, seasons” (listen)
In order to learn to talk about weather and seasons, we need an active vocabulary.
Adjectives (weather)
Cold cold
Warm warm
Hot hot
Cool cool
Windy [ʹwındı] windy
Cloudy [ʹklaʋdı] cloudy
Sunny [ʹsʌnı] sunny
Rainy [ʹreını] rainy
Snowy [ʹsnəʋı] snowy
Frosty [ʹfrɔstı] frosty
Nouns (seasons)
Summer [ʹsʌmə] summer
Autumn [ʹɔ:təm] autumn
Winter [ʹwıntə] winter
Spring spring
Read all the words carefully and make sure they are pronounced correctly.
Learning to talk about the weather
To describe the weather outside, we just need to put the pronoun at the beginning of the sentence it, linking verb to be and a necessary adjective. We know that in the present tense the verb to be has three forms (am, is, are). Let's remember what happens with the pronoun it we use form is.
It is cold today. It is cloudy today. It is cold today. Today is cloudy.
If we want to describe what the weather was like yesterday, we will need past form verb to be. We know that this verb has two forms in the past tense (was, were). With a pronoun it we use form was.
It was sunny and warm yesterday. Yesterday it was sunny and warm.
When talking about the time of year, we construct a sentence in a similar way.
It is spring now. Spring is now.
An interesting fact is that in the UK the favorite topic of conversation is the weather. Any conversation, be it a meeting of friends, colleagues or relatives, begins with questions:
It is a nice day today, isn’t it? Nice day, isn't it?
The answers to these questions that we discussed above are assumed.
Now you know that when traveling to the UK, according to the rules of etiquette, the conversation should begin with a question about the weather. In response, they will definitely ask you about the weather of the city or country where you live.
Lesson assignments
Exercise 1. Answer the question.
What is the structure of an impersonal sentence in English?
Exercise 2. Answer the following questions.
1. What is the weather like today?
2. What season is it now?
3. What is the usual weather like in winter, summer, spring, autumn in Russia?
4. What is the usual weather like in winter, summer, spring, autumn in Great Britain?
5. What is your favorite season?
6. What weather do you like?
Exercise 1.
It + to be + adjective/noun Exercise 2.
1. It is...
2. It is... (spring, summer, autumn, winter)
3. In winter it is usually cold and snowy in Russia. In spring it is usually warm and sunny in Russia. In summer it is usually hot and sunny in Russia. In autumn it is usually cloudy and rainy in Russia.
4. In winter it is usually cold in Great Britain. In spring it is usually warm and sunny in Great Britain. In summer it is usually hot and sunny in Great Britain. In autumn it is usually cloudy and rainy in Great Britain.
5. My favorite season is…
6. I like …(cold, warm…) weather.
In Russian, we can easily construct sentences consisting of one word: “It’s cold. Hot. Difficult. Late".
But how to do this in English?
After all, English has its own word order, and the sentence must have a main character.
Therefore, according to the rules of the English language, we cannot translate these sentences “in Russian” in one word: “Cold. Hot. Difficult. Late."
To build them there is a special construction It is, which I will tell you about in this article.
From the article you will learn:
- How to construct impersonal sentences in English
What are impersonal sentences?
Impersonal sentences are those sentences in which no main character . Let's look at this with an example.
We use impersonal offers:
1. To describe weather and natural phenomena
For example: It's cold. Dark.
2.
To indicate time, date, day of the week, etc.
For example: 6 hours. Monday.
3. To indicate distance
For example: Far. Close.
4. To express the speaker's opinion
For example: Fun. Difficult.
Attention: Confused about English rules? Find out how to easily understand English grammar.
To construct such sentences in English, you need to use construction it is.
Let's look at it in detail.
Rules for the formation of impersonal sentences in English
Such sentences are formed very simply: using the pronoun it and the verb to be at the right time. Offer outline:
It + verb to be + other parts of the sentence
It does not indicate a person and is not translated into Russian, but in the formation of a sentence it takes on the role of the main character.
Verb to be - special kind verb. We use it when we say that someone:
- Located somewhere (He's in the park)
- Is someone (She's a nurse)
- Is somehow (Gray cat)
Depending on the tense in which we use this verb, in combination with the pronoun it, it changes its form:
In present time Present Simple- It is...= It’s….
It is hot.
Hot.
It is 5 o'clock.
5 o'clock.
In the past time Past Simple- It was...
Itwas dark.
It was dark.
It was easy.
It was easy.
Itwill be...
It will be difficult.
It will be hard.
It will be fun.
It will be fun.
Negation in impersonal sentences in English
Sometimes we need to say negative sentences: "Not difficult. Not windy. Not far." To form such sentences we need to add to the verb to be negative particle not.
The outline of such a proposal:
It + verb to be + not + other parts of the sentence
We can construct such negative sentences in the present, past, and future tenses.
In the present tense Present Simple – It is not...= It’s not...
It's not important.
Doesn't matter.
It’
snot cold.
Not cold.
In the past tense Past Simple – Itwasnot…
It wasn't funny.
It wasn't funny.
It wasn't dark.
It wasn't dark.
INfuturetime Future Simple– It will not be... = It won’t be...
It won't be hot.
It won't be hot.
It won't be easy.
It won't be easy.
Interrogative impersonal sentences in English
To ask a question with sentences like these, we need to put the verb to be first.
The outline of such a proposal would be:
Verb to be + it + other parts of the sentence?
Let's look at what this will look like for each time.
In the present tense Present Simple – Isit…?
Isit easy?
Just?
Isit beautiful?
Beautiful?
In the past tense Past Simple – Wasit…?
Was it warm?
It was warm?
Was it night?
It was night?
In the future tense Future Simple –Willitbe…?
Will it be cold?
It will be cold?
Will it be windy?
Will it be windy?
So now you know what impersonal sentences are. Let's get to practice.
Reinforcement task with the It is structure
Translate the following sentences into English. Leave your answers in the comments:
1. Friday.
2. It will be difficult.
3. Was it interesting?
4. 6 hours.
5. Not far.
6. Will it be fun?
We have already written about the fact that in the English language there must be a subject and a predicate in the article “How to ask a question correctly in English”.
You understand that if a verb is missing, you need to insert a linking verb to be. You cannot leave a sentence without a verb at all. But what if there is no subject in the sentence?
Such sentences in Russian can be called incomplete (when there is neither a subject nor a predicate). For example:
Night. Street. Flashlight. Pharmacy…
Morning. Winter. It's frosty today. There is a glass on the table.
All of these sentences have no subject. The word "Night" is an addition.
This is unacceptable in English.
Instead of non-existent subjects, they insert the pronoun “it”, “this” or “there”
Moreover, there is used only to indicate location, and in other cases it is used.
For example,
Dark. – It is dark. = It's dark.
Morning. – It is morning.
It rains in autumn. – It rains in autumn.
It's frosty today. – It is frosty today.
Stupid. - It's stupid.
This, that, these, those are used when we want to emphasize that we point to this item(more specific).
This is a book. This is a book.
That was a rude question! – That was a rude question! (traditionally that is used to mean “that”, but in the past tense it is used instead of this)
These are the words you always say to me. (plural) – These are the words you keep telling me all the time.
These were my favorite paintings. (in the past tense instead of these) – Those were my favorite paintings.
Turnoverthere is/there are
There is a book on the table. – There is a book on the table. (if after there there should be a noun in singular, put is, in the past tense - was)
There are a lot of people on the street. – There are lots of people on the street. (if after introductory there the noun costs plural, put are, and in the past tense - were)
You can, of course, say:
The book is on the table. Lots of people are on the street.
Then what's the point of studying? turnover there is/ there are?
Of course, if you say The rose is on the table, you will be understood, but this turn decorates the speech and gives a slightly different shade of meaning to the whole statement.
The rose is on the table. - Rose is on the table. Answer to the question: where is the rose? The fact that the rose is on the table is emphasized.
There is a rose on the table. - There is a rose on the table. Originally Answered: What's on the table? It is noted that there is generally on the table, that it is not empty. The focus is on the table, not the rose. She is generally a secondary object, somewhat unspecified, a little abstract.
That is why after there is there is always an article “ a "!
Since it is used only in the singular, no article is placed after there are.
Therefore after there is / there are The article the is never used!
Look! There is a building over there! We must be on the right way! (the building itself does not matter, the main thing is that it is there)
Are you looking for the Embassy? The building is over there. You can see it already. (the location of a specific building is indicated)
And one more rule: after the phrase there is/there are, “no” is always put, and not not (as after have).
There is no desk in the classroom.
There are no teeth in my mouth.
In this case, the article a, of course, disappears.
Exception: any
There isn't any books on the shelf.
Very often there is/there are describes feelings, emotions, state of mind and human thoughts:
There is some emptiness in my heart since he left.
There are emotions in her songs like in nobody else’s.
There is a great difference between his social dance and his performance on the stage.
After there is/there are, only nouns or phrases with nouns are used (with much, a lot of, little, a few, some).
It's cold in the north. (Cold is not a noun, so it is not used with there is), therefore – It is cold in the North.
It is hot outside. – It is hot outside.
Something, although not a noun, can be used after there is:
something + adjective or something + additional clause.
There is something I wanna tell you.
Is there anything difficult in that?
There is still something good in you.
There is nothing I can hide from you.
There is nothing serious about your illness.
The same applies to somebody, no one, someone.
It is better to translate sentences with there is/there are from the end, since the circumstance of place in this sentence is the most important. The phrase there is itself does not need to be translated, it can be translated with the words: there is, located, available.
Look! There is a castle on that hill. - Look! There (is) a castle on that hill.
Impersonal offers
Often impersonal sentences in Russian are familiar to us in this form:
I don't like this movie.
I have a car.
My name is Nina.
She lives well.
There is no subject in these sentences.
This is unacceptable in English!
The biggest mistake beginners make is trying to translate impersonal sentences word for word.
The sentences seem to be easy, but you can translate them correctly if you understand that:
I don't like this movie = I don't like this movie. – I don’t like this film. (Forget about Me not like this film)
She has a child. = She has a child. (yes, no matter how stupid it may sound, there is no other way to say it) - She has a baby. (None: Her be a child.)
My name is Nina. = My name is Nina. = I am Nina. – My name is Nina. I am Nina. (Me is Nina – not allowed)
He lives well. = He lives well. – He lives well. (Wrong: Him live good)
Never start translating a sentence if in Russian they ask: to me, to him, to her, to them, to us... that is indirect pronouns. Stop and think about how to “remake” it in the English manner.
An English sentence always begins with a subject, and if this subject is a pronoun, then it should only be he, she, it, I, you, they, we, but in no case us, them, me, him, her.
We have listed the most common structures that beginners make mistakes in.
There are, however, impersonal sentences that cannot be changed so easily.
For example,
They gave me a book.
I was told that it will rain tomorrow.
In most cases, impersonal sentences in Russian should become passive in English. Passive voice is when the doer himself is unknown, and the subject is an object that experiences the action, but does nothing, is passive. Hence the name: passive voice.
They gave me a book. = I was gifted with a book. – I was presented with a book.
They dressed him and took him to wash. = He was dressed and taken to the bathroom. – He was dressed and shown to the bathroom.
I was told that it will rain tomorrow. = I was told (notified) that it would rain tomorrow. – I was told that it is going to rain tomorrow.
They say the summer will be hot. = It is said that the summer will be hot. - It is said that the summer is going to be hot.
It sounds, again, it seems to us, strange. But this is a feature of the English language. This is why the passive voice is used much more often in English than in Russian. Because they cannot use impersonal sentences.
However, even in English the passive sometimes looks cumbersome.
There is a way to do it differently. Instead of an unknown subject, put impersonal they. It is not translated into Russian.
They gave me a book. - They presented me with a book.
They dressed him and took him to wash. - They dressed him and showed him to the bathroom.
Sentences that begin with the words: they told me..., they say...
almost always used with they:
I was told that it will rain tomorrow. – They told me that it is going to rain tomorrow.
They say the summer will be hot. – They say it is going to be hot in summer.
IN colloquial speech they are used more often, sentences with passive voice- This is most often a sign of an official style of speech and writing.
Sometimes you can put one instead of a non-existent subject, but this will also be more likely book style than conversational.
You can become a professor, but teaching languages without practical experience is impossible. - One can become a professor, but without practical experience he/they can’t teach languages.
As we said above, in English the main thing is sentence structure. The English absolutely need everything to be in order, to have a subject and a predicate, to have a structure in the sentence, so that the predicate can be placed before the subject, and a question can be asked. Our chaotic sentences without a subject (they are called impersonal), for example: They fixed my car It is impossible to translate word for word, since this is impossible in English, but there are many ways to avoid impersonal sentences.
have something done
The have something done structure is one of them. In English the sentence " I'm haircutted" cannot be translated like this: Ihavecutmyhair. or like this: I cut my hair. Such a translation would mean that I took the clipper and cut my own hair. The idea that someone did something for me at my request is expressed by the words: have something done.
For example: I have my hair cut. - I am undergot a haircut. (They cut my hair at my request)
I have my dress made. - Isewedto myselfdress. (Meaning that it was custom-made for me)
I have my car fixed. - Ifixed itcar. (My car was repaired at my request)
Sometimes it is possible to use get:
I get my roof repaired. - To merepairedroof.
Igetmyroomredecorated. – I renovated the room. (Meaning that I called someone to do this repair for me)
In Russian, we can easily construct sentences consisting of one word: “It’s cold. Hot. Difficult. Late".
But how to do this in English?
After all, English has its own word order, and the sentence must have a main character.
Therefore, according to the rules of the English language, we cannot translate these sentences “in Russian” in one word: “Cold. Hot. Difficult. Late."
To build them there is a special construction It is, which I will tell you about in this article.
From the article you will learn:
- How to construct impersonal sentences in English
What are impersonal sentences?
Impersonal sentences are those sentences in which no main character . Let's look at this with an example.
We use impersonal offers:
1. To describe weather and natural phenomena
For example: It's cold. Dark.
2.
To indicate time, date, day of the week, etc.
For example: 6 hours. Monday.
3. To indicate distance
For example: Far. Close.
4. To express the speaker's opinion
For example: Fun. Difficult.
Attention: Confused about English rules? Find out how to easily understand English grammar.
To construct such sentences in English, you need to use construction it is.
Let's look at it in detail.
Rules for the formation of impersonal sentences in English
Such sentences are formed very simply: using the pronoun it and the verb to be at the right time. Offer outline:
It + verb to be + other parts of the sentence
It does not indicate a person and is not translated into Russian, but in the formation of a sentence it takes on the role of the main character.
The verb to be is a special type of verb. We use it when we say that someone:
- Located somewhere (He's in the park)
- Is someone (She's a nurse)
- Is somehow (Gray cat)
Depending on the tense in which we use this verb, in combination with the pronoun it, it changes its form:
In the present tense Present Simple - It is…= It’s….
It is hot.
Hot.
It is 5 o'clock.
5 o'clock.
In the past tense Past Simple - It was…
Itwas dark.
It was dark.
It was easy.
It was easy.
In the future tense Future Simple -Itwill be...
It will be difficult.
It will be hard.
It will be fun.
It will be fun.
Negation in impersonal sentences in English
Sometimes we need to say negative sentences: “It’s not difficult. Not windy. Not far." To form such sentences, we need to add a negative particle not to the verb to be.
The outline of such a proposal:
It + verb to be + not + other parts of the sentence
We can construct such negative sentences in the present, past, and future tenses.
In the present tense Present Simple - It is not…= It’s not...
It's not important.
Doesn't matter.
It’
snot cold.
Not cold.
In the past tense Past Simple - Itwasnot…
It wasn't funny.
It wasn't funny.
It wasn't dark.
It wasn't dark.
INfuturetimeFuture Simple - It will not be… = It won’t be…
Will it be windy?
Will it be windy?
So now you know what impersonal sentences are. Let's get to practice.
Reinforcement task with the It is structure
Translate the following sentences into English. Leave your answers in the comments:
1. Friday.
2. It will be difficult.
3. Was it interesting?
4. 6 hours.
5. Not far.
6. Will it be fun?