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Spanish Grammar

Learn Spanish Grammar

arrow Spanish Pronunciation

  • The Spanish Alphabet
  • Pronuncation Practice
  • Accent Marks
  • Listen!
arrow 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
arrow How To Say "The" And "An"
  • Understanding Articles
  • How to Say “The” in Spanish
  • How to Say “A” or “An” in Spanish
arrow Spanish Subject Pronouns - How to talk about You, He, They and We in Spanish
  • Pronouns in Spanish
  • Which “You” Should You Use?
arrow 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
arrow 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
arrow 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

arrow Spanish Verbs in the Present Tense

  • Understanding Infinitives
  • Isolating Verb Endings
  • How to Conjugate a Verb
arrow The Spanish Verb IR (to go)
  • Going To a Place
  • Using IR to Talk about What is Going to Happen
arrow Spanish Question Words
  • How to Ask Questions
  • Inflection
  • Funky Punctuation Marks
  • Using a Statement as a Question
  • Asking “Really? Is That True?”
arrow Spanish Verb ESTAR - “To Be” Part 2
  • Where am I?
  • Forming DEL from DE and EL
  • How Do You Feel?
arrow 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
arrow Using ESTAR to Express a Feeling or Condition
  • When to Use ESTAR, When to Use SER
  • The Importance of Getting SER and ESTAR Right
arrow Talking about the Weather in Spanish

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

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

arrow 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
arrow Spanish Prepositional Pronouns (More about Us and Them)
  • Understanding Prepositions
  • Prepositional Pronouns
  • The Exceptions: Entre Tú y Yo, Conmigo and Contigo
arrow 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
arrow 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
arrow 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

arrow Spanish Irregular Verbs "Yo"

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

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

arrow Spanish Present Progressive

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

arrow 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

arrow 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

arrow 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

arrow 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

arrow Spanish Conjunctions - Talking about Ifs, Ands, Buts

  • Understanding Conjuctions

arrow Talking about Something and Nothing - Indefinite Words

  • Understanding Indefinite Words

arrow Talking about What Happened in the Past

  • The Two Major Past Tenses
  • Starting with the Preterite

arrow Irregular Verbs in the Preterite

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

arrow Regular Irregularities

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

arrow Short Verbs: DAR, VER, IR and SER

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

arrow Verbs that Say One Thing and Mean Something Else

arrow Introduction to the Imperfect Past

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

arrow Using Multiple Tenses in a Sentence

arrow What I Was Doing When…

arrow Verbs that Say One Thing and Mean It

arrow How Long Ago Did It Happen?

  • Since When?

arrow Describing Actions

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

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

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

arrow 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

arrow More Uses of the Infinitive

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

arrow Prepositions Part III: POR and PARA

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

arrow Asking for Something: PEDIR v. PREGUNTAR

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

arrow Asking the Question, “What?”

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

arrow Using That, Whom, and Which in Statements

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

arrow Either or, Neither Nor

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

arrow Being Contrary: But, Not Only

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

arrow The Future

arrow Irregular Verbs in the Future

arrow Unusual Ways of Using the Future Tense

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