BASIC SPANISH: A GRAMMAR AND WORKBOOK

aquel/aquella/aquellos/aquellas refer to things that are far away from both the speaker and the person being spoken to, either i ...

10 _____ plantas están muertas (esos, aquellas, estos) 2 Complete with the demonstrative pronouns taking into account the place ...

5 No compra ni aquel coche ni esta moto, compra _____ bicicleta. 6 No leemos ni este libro ni esa novela, leemos _____ revistas. ...

pertenecer to belong plato (m.) plate población (f.) population taza (f.) cup vaso (m.) glass Demonstratives 71 ...

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UNIT TEN Comparatives and superlatives Comparatives In Unit 7 we saw that adjectives must agree in number and gender with the no ...

Este coche es bastante más cómodo que aquél. This car is considerably more comfortable than that one. Este libro es un poco meno ...

pequeño menor smaller, younger (^) más pequeño smaller bajo inferior lower, inferior más bajo lower, shorter (height) alto super ...

Exercises 1 How would you express the following in Spanish? 1 María is taller than Pepe. 2 This chair is less expensive than tha ...

3 Este piso es _____ que aquel. (better) 4 Soy _____ que María. (taller) 5 Begoña está hoy mucho _____ que ayer. (worse) 6 Rafae ...

léxico (m.) lexis, vocabulary lingüista (m./f.) linguist reunirse to meet sueldo (m.) salary Basic Spanish: A grammar and workbo ...

UNIT ELEVEN Object pronouns In Spanish, as in English, there are two types of object pronouns – direct and indirect. In a senten ...

John sees them. The direct object pronouns in Spanish correspond to the six persons of the verb and are as follows: 1st person s ...

The third person pronouns lo and la are often replaced by le when the direct object is a person rather than a thing: e.g. John s ...

John writes a letter to his girlfriend./ John writes his girlfriend a letter. Remember that in Spanish an a may also introduce t ...

Le doy el regalo (a él). I give him the present. Les envío la carta (a ellas). I send them the letter. Le digo la verdad (a Ud.) ...

Exercises 1 Rewrite the following sentences replacing the words in bold with the appropriate direct object pronoun: 1 Lola escri ...

10 Presto a Juan un libro. 4 Translate the following sentences into Spanish using the indirect object pronouns: 1 We don’t give ...

Cultural brief Argentina Argentina es uno de los países más grandes del mundo y está situada en América del Sur. Tiene muchos co ...

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