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17 Cards in this Set
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Cognate
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A word that looks/sounds the same in English and in Spanish.
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Word Order
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In Spanish, the adjective usually goes after the noun. House white not white house.
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Gender
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In Spanish, words are classified as either masculine or feminine. La mesa = the table. El libro = the book.
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Number
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Singular or plural. In Spanish, nouns, adjectives, and person are either singular or plural.
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Agreement
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Nouns must agree in gender and number.
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Indefinite Article
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Indefinite articles accompany nouns and tell gender and number. Example: a, an
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Definite Article
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Accompany nouns and tell gender and number. Example: the (el, las, la, los)
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Nombre/Sustantivo
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Noun: person, place or thing. Always have a gender and number. Nouns can be replaced by pronouns (I, you, you all, he, she, it, they)
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Adjetivo
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Modify nouns. Agree with nouns in number and gender.
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Adverbio
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Modify verbs. They usually end in ly in English. End in mente in Spanish.
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Verbo
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Verbs show action. End in er, ir, or ar. Can be regular or irregular. Can be conjugated.
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Tense
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When something happened. Past or present.
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Infinitive
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Non conjugated. Verb in its pure form end in ar, er or ir.
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To Conjugate
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To give different forms of the verb as they vary according to tense, number and person.
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1st, 2nd, 3rd Person
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Shows who's doing the action.
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Peer Editing
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Helping your buddy.
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Interogativos
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¿donde? = where?
¿por que? = why? ¿quién? = who? ¿cómo? = how? ¿que? = what? ¿cuántos/as? = how many? ¿cuánto/a? = how much? ¿cuándo? = when? ¿cúal? = which? |
