Spanish Grammar

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Spanish Pronunciation

• The Spanish Alphabet
• Pronuncation Practice
• Accent Marks
• Listen!

People, Places, and Things

• Understanding Nouns
• Is it a Boy or a Girl?
• Talking about People and Animals
• What “The”?!
• Same Endings, Different Story
• Talking about Things and Ideas
• Hermaphroditic Nouns
• When There’s More than One

How To Say "The" And "An"

• Understanding Articles
• How to Say “The” in Spanish
• How to Say “A” or “An” in Spanish

Spanish Subject Pronouns - How to talk about You, He, They and We in Spanish

• Pronouns in Spanish
• Which “You” Should You Use?

Spanish Verb Ser - "To be" Part 1

• To Be or Not to Be
• Drop the Subject
• Talking about Whose It is and Where You’re From
• Talking about What You Do for a Living
• Be Careful with “To Be” Verbs

How to Say Numbers in Spanish

• Starting out: 0 to 35
• Masculine and Feminine Numbers
• Numbers from 36 to 102
• Asking How Much or How Many
• Numbers from 101
• Don’t Forget the Gender
• Reverse Puncuation: How to Write Big Numbers

How To Tell the Time In Spanish

• Exception at One O’Clock
• Talking about Quarter Hours and Thirty Minutes
• Asking at What Time Something will Occur

Spanish Verbs in the Present Tense

• Understanding Infinitives
• Isolating Verb Endings
• How to Conjugate a Verb

The Spanish Verb IR (to go)

• Going To a Place
• Using IR to Talk about What is Going to Happen

Spanish Question Words

• How to Ask Questions
• Inflection
• Funky Punctuation Marks
• Using a Statement as a Question
• Asking “Really? Is That True?”

Spanish Verb ESTAR - “To Be” Part 2

• Where am I?
• Forming DEL from DE and EL
• How Do You Feel?

Spanish Adjectives Part 1 - Descriptions

• Getting Nouns and Adjectives in Order
• Describing Things
• Adjust the Adjective to Suit the Noun
• Adjectives that End in –o or –a
• Adjectives that End in –e
• Describing How Much in General
• Short and Simple: Adjectives like BUEN and MAL
• Big or Great? Using GRAN and GRANDE

Using ESTAR to Express a Feeling or Condition

• When to Use ESTAR, When to Use SER
• The Importance of Getting SER and ESTAR Right

Talking about the Weather in Spanish

Spanish Adjectives Part 2 - Who Owns What

• My Hat, Your Hat: Understanding Possessive Adjectives
• What is Owned v. Who Owns It
• This is All Mine

Spanish Direct Object Pronouns

• Talking about Me, Him, Her and Us
• Understanding Direct Object Pronouns
• When People are Direct Objects

Spanish Indirect Object Pronouns

To Whom? Adding Clarity to “Le” and “Les”

Putting Direct & Indirect Object Pronouns Together

• Which Object Comes First?
• Why Does ‘Le’ Change to ‘Se’?
• To Whom? Clarifying “Se”
• 4.4 More about Us and Them: Prepositional Pronouns
• Understanding Prepositions
• Prepositional Pronouns
• The Exceptions: Entre Tú y Yo, Conmigo and Contigo

Spanish Prepositional Pronouns (More about Us and Them)

• Understanding Prepositions
• Prepositional Pronouns
• The Exceptions: Entre Tú y Yo, Conmigo and Contigo

Spanish Demonstrative Adjectives (Talking about This, That, and That One over There)

• Understanding This and That
• Demonstrative Adjectives in Spanish
• Demonstrative Pronouns
• A Note of Caution: Accent Marks

Spanish Irregular Verbs - TENER and VENIR

• Why Complicate Things? The Role of Irregular Verbs in Spanish
• Using TENER to Talk about Age, What You Have, Whether You’re Hungry, What You Feel Like Doing

Spanish Stem Changing Verbs - Present

• What is a Stem Change?
• A Rare Stem Change: i to ie
• Another Rare Stem Change: u to ue
• The Last and Strangest Stem Change: o to hue

Spanish Irregular Verbs "Yo"

• Now a G, Now an O, GO!
• Thinking about VALER

Using the Verbs DECIR and DAR - To Say and To Give

Spanish Present Progressive

• Understanding the Present Progressive
• The Present Participles of Regular Verbs
• Irregular Stem Changing Verbs

Spanish Verbs SABER and CONOCER - Talking about what You Know

• Strange Shades of Meaning
• SABER: To Know Information or How to Do Something
• CONOCER: To Know a Person, Place, or Thing
• Knowing Places

Talking about What You Like, Love, and Lack

Verbs without English Equivalents
• Using GUSTAR to Talk About What You Like
• Common Errors with GUSTAR
• Using FALTAR to Talk about What You Lack or Need
• Using the Verb QUEDAR

Spanish Reflexive Verbs - Actions You Perform on Yourself

• Understanding Reflexive Verbs
• When a Verb is Reflexive and When It is Not
• To Get Emotional with a Reflexive Verb

Talking about What’s Good, Better, and Best

• Understanding Comparatives and Superlatives
• For Better or for Worse: MEJOR QUE and PEOR QUE
• The Best of All: LA MEJOR
• The Most of All: MÁS DE
• Super Cool: The Ending -ísimo
• Some More Comparisons: MÁS QUE and MENOS QUE
• Expressing How Things are Alike: TAN COMO and TANTO COMO

Spanish Conjunctions - Talking about Ifs, Ands, Buts

• Understanding Conjuctions

Talking about Something and Nothing - Indefinite Words

• Understanding Indefinite Words

Talking about What Happened in the Past

• The Two Major Past Tenses
• Starting with the Preterite

Irregular Verbs in the Preterite

• Irregular Verbs that End in –zar, -car, -gar
• Stem-Changing Verbs in the Past

Regular Irregularities

• Understanding LEER
• Understanding SABER
• Understanding TRAER
• A Few More Irregulars: HACER, VENIR, QUERER

Short Verbs: DAR, VER, IR and SER

• Identical Twins: IR and SER
• Going or Being? The Problem with FUI

Verbs that Say One Thing and Mean Something Else

Introduction to the Imperfect Past

• Distinguishing the Imperfect from the Preterite
• Irregular Verbs in the Imperfect

Using Multiple Tenses in a Sentence

What I Was Doing When…

Verbs that Say One Thing and Mean It

How Long Ago Did It Happen?

• Since When?

Describing Actions

• Adverbs that Describe How an Action Occurs
• Adverbs that Describe When an Action Occurs
• Adverbs that Describe Where an Action Occurs

Prepositions Part I: A, DE, EN, HACIA, and CON

• Investigating ‘a’
• Examples of ‘de’
• Looking at ‘en’
• Understanding ‘hacia’
• More with ‘con’

Prepositions Part II: DESDE, ENTRE, SIN, HASTA

• DESDE: From or Since
• HASTA: Until, Up to, As Far As, Even, Including
• ENTRE: Among or Between
• SIN: Without

More Uses of the Infinitive

• Infinitives as Commands
• Verbs Followed by Infinitives
• Sensory Verbs

Prepositions Part III: POR and PARA

• Starting with POR
• Using PARA
• When POR and PARA Get Confusing

Asking for Something: PEDIR v. PREGUNTAR

• The Ordinary Asking Word: PREGUNTAR
• A Closer Look at PEDIR

Asking the Question, “What?”

• The Many Uses of ¿Qué?
• When to Use ¿Cuál?
• Using ¿Cómo? to ask What?

Using That, Whom, and Which in Statements

• Talking about Who and Whom
• Looking at LO QUE
• More about CUAL

Either or, Neither Nor

• Either … Or
• Neither … Nor
• Not Even…

Being Contrary: But, Not Only

• When to Use PERO
• When to Use SINO
• Not Only … But Also

The Future

Irregular Verbs in the Future

Unusual Ways of Using the Future Tense