BASIC SPANISH: A GRAMMAR AND WORKBOOK

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UNIT FOUR Unit 4 Present tense of some common irregular verbs Not all verbs follow the same pattern as those explained in Unit 3 ...

This is not an exhaustive list of irregular verbs, but they are some of the most common ones that you will want to use from the ...

See Unit 8 for a fuller explanation of the differences between ser and estar. saber and conocer The verb saber means ‘to know’ i ...

9 Yo _____ de Madrid. 10 Tú _____ un poco deprimido, ¿verdad? 2 Complete the following text with the appropriate form of ser or ...

9 _____ cuándo es el examen. (María) 10 _____ España muy bien. (Ud.) 6 Fill in the gaps with the appropriate verb (some of these ...

C.A. de Andalucía Huelva, Cádiz, Málaga, Granada, Almería, Jaén, Córdoba, Sevilla C.A. de Extremadura Cáceres, Badajoz C.A. de C ...

jardín (m.) garden lengua (f.) language luz (f.) light museo (m.) museum negocio (m.) business parlamento (m.) parliament piso ( ...

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UNIT FIVE Interrogatives Forming a question in Spanish is quite straightforward. If a subject is expressed it is often placed af ...

¿cuál(es)? which?/what? ¿cómo? how? ¿cuándo? when? ¿cuánto(s)? how much/how many? ¿dónde? where? ¿por qué? why? ¿para qué? what ...

In English the distinction between ‘who?’ and ‘whom?’ should really indicate when the personal a needs to be used, but current E ...

Exercises 1 Taking into account the answer (given in parentheses), what is the question? ¿quién? ¿quiénes? ¿cómo? ¿dónde? ¿qué? ...

4 Ask a question so that the answer is the underlined information in each sentence. (Use tú when necessary.) 1 Ese chico es Juan ...

Cultural brief Los horarios españoles Los horarios españoles son diferentes a los horarios de muchos países europeos. Las tienda ...

llave (f.) key llevar to take más tarde later mano (f.) hand mucho many oficina (f.) office perdone excuse me (Ud.) por ejemplo ...

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UNIT SIX Negatives You have already seen examples of the basic negative in Spanish, which is formed by putting no in front of th ...

However, the sentence could possibly be ambiguous if nadie were used in the same way: e.g. No ve nadie. This could mean ‘Nobody ...

2 Answer these questions with ninguno/ninguna: 1 ¿Tienes hermanas? 2 ¿Ves la llave? 3 ¿Usas perfume? 4 ¿Quieres un pastel? 5 ¿Ne ...