Modern Spanish Grammar: A Practical Guide

Sé que tú me comprendes mejor que nadie. I know you understand me better than anybody. 30.4.2 To ask people to explain the meani ...

30.5 Signalling that one understands the speaker Apart from the neutral word sí, ‘yes’, words which signal that one is following ...

Perdone (usted)/perdona un momento... (formal/fam.) ‘Sorry, but.. .’ Perdone (usted) que lo/la interrumpa... (formal, m./f.) ‘So ...

¿Dónde viven? – Hombre, no estoy seguro. Where do they live? Well, I’m not sure. ¡Hombre!, qué bueno que hayas venido. Well!, I’ ...

30.10 Formal development of a topic 30.10.1 Opening remarks To present a new topic formally, in the course of a lecture, talk or ...

En último lugar... Finally... Primeramente... First of all... Luego... Then... , next... Después... Then... , next... Seguidamen ...

A modo de ejemplo... By way of example... Así... Thus... Así, por ejemplo... Thus, for example... Como... Like... Tales como... ...

Finalmente... Finally... Por último... Lastly... Como último punto... As a final point... Y concluiré diciendo... And I’ll finis ...

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31 Asking questions and responding A basic function in any language is that of asking questions in order to seek information, an ...

In writing, question marks are used at the beginning and end of the interrogative sentence. 31.1.2 Subject-verb This type of que ...

31.2 Questions seeking partial information 31.2.1 Interrogative word – verb – subject Questions seeking partial information such ...

Por favor, ¿podría decirme a qué hora sale el próximo vuelo para Barcelona? Could you please tell me what time the next flight f ...

–¿Dónde has dejado las llaves? ‘Where have you left the keys?’ –¿Qué llaves? ‘Which keys?’ The intention of the second question ...

–¿Vais a salir de vacaciones? ‘Are you going on holiday?’ –Por supuesto. Vamos a ir a San Sebastián. ‘Of course. We are going to ...

32 Negating Negation in Spanish, as in English, can be expressed in a number of ways, ranging from the simple word no, ‘no’, ‘no ...

32.2 Limiting the scope of negation To limit the scope of the negation, place no before the word or phrase you want to negate. N ...

Poco poco interesante‘not very interesting’/‘uninteresting’ poco atractivo‘not very attractive’/‘unattractive’ (a)Poco is someti ...