English Grammar for Students in Spanish

Contents

1. What's in a Word?
2. What is a Noun?
3. What is Meant by Gender?
   1. Endings indicating gender
4. What is Meant by Number?
5. What are Articles?
   1. Definite articles
   2. Indefinite articles
6. What is the Possessive?
7. What is a Verb?
8. What is the Infinitive?
   1. Consulting the dictionary
9. What is a Subject?
10. What is a Pronoun?
11. What is a Subject Pronoun?
    1. Choosing the proper form of "you"
12. What is a Verb Conjugation?
    1. Choosing the proper "person"
    2. How to conjugate a verb
13. What are Sentences, Phrases and Clauses?
    1. Sentences
    2. Phrases
    3. Clauses
    4. Types of sentences
14. What are Affirmative and Negative Sentences?
    1. Negative words
    2. Negative answers
15. What are Declarative and Interrogative Sentences?
    1. Tag questions
16. What are Some Equivalents of "to be"?
17. What is Meant by Tense?
18. What is the Present Tense?
19. What is the Past Tense?
    1. The preterite
    2. The imperfect
    3. Selection of the preterite or the imperfect
20. What are Auxiliary Verbs?
21. What is a Participle?
    1. Present participle
    2. Past participle
22. What are the Progressive Tenses?
    1. Use of the progressive tenses
23. What is the Future Tense?
    1. Substitute for the future tense
24. What are the Perfect Tenses?
    1. Spanish perfect tenses in the indicative mood
    2. Spanish perfect tenses in the subjunctive mood
25. What is Meant by Mood?
26. What is the Subjunctive?
27. What is the Imperative?
    1. "You" command in Spanish
    2. "We" command in Spanish
28. What is the Conditional?
    1. The conditional
    2. The conditional perfect
    3. "If-clauses"
    4. On-going conditions
    5. Contrary-to-fact statements
29. What is Meant by Active and Passive Voice?
    1. Making an active sentence passive
    2. Avoiding the passive voice in Spanish
30. What is an Adjective?
31. What is a Descriptive Adjective?
    1. Nouns used as adjectives
32. What is Meant by Comparison of Adjectives?
    1. Comparative
    2. Superlative
33. What is a Possessive Adjective?
    1. Spanish unstressed possessive adjectives
    2. Spanish stressed possessive adjectives
34. What is an Interrogative Adjective?
35. What is a Demonstrative Adjective?
36. What is an Adverb?
37. What is a Conjunction?
38. What is a Preposition?
39. What are Objects?
    1. Direct object
    2. Indirect object
    3. Sentences with a direct and an indirect object
    4. Object of a preposition
    5. Relationship of a verb to its object
40. What are Direct and Indirect Object Pronouns?
    1. Spanish direct object pronouns
    2. Spanish indirect object pronouns
41. What are Object of Preposition Pronouns?
42. What are Reflexive Pronouns and Verbs?
    1. Reciprocal action
43. What is a Possessive Pronoun?
44. What is an Interrogative Pronoun?
    1. "Who, whom, whose"
    2. Dangling prepositions
    3. "What"
    4. "Which one, which ones"
    5. "How much, how many"
45. What is a Demonstrative Pronoun?
    1. "This one, that one," and "these, those"
    2. Spanish neuter demonstrative pronouns
46. What is a Relative Pronoun?
    1. Subject in a relative clause
    2. Direct object in a relative clause
    3. Indirect object and object of a preposition in a relative clause
    4. Relative pronouns without antecedents
47. What are Indefinites and Negatives?

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