Gilda Nissenberg - Practice Makes Perfect Intermediate Spanish Grammar

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Practice Makes Perfect: Intermediate Spanish Grammar is designed to provide a user-friendly way to study and practice Spanish grammar at the intermediate level, especially for the self-taught learner. Users of this book will continue building their competency to communicate in Spanish. Each chapter provides an easy way to understand explanations of grammar usage, by comparisons with English grammar when needed and clear examples that illustrate and clarify the grammatical explanations.

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You have learned that in English and Spanish there are three grammatical personsfirst, second, and thirdin both singular and plural.

Pronouns are used to replace the name of a person or object.

Lets review the subject pronouns in Spanish. The chart shows that, except the first person singular and the formal you, subject pronouns have both feminine and masculine forms. When a plural includes both masculine and feminine, the masculine form is used. The familiar plurals vosotros and vosotras are used in most regions of Spain; ustedes is the familiar plural used in most of the rest of the Spanish-speaking world. Ud. and Uds. are abbreviations of the formal subject pronouns.

The context will clarify whether to use the familiar or the formal pronoun. By addressing a man as Seor, you are showing this is a formal context. The word chicos, on the other hand, implies familiarity. You probably have learned that subject pronouns are usually omitted in Spanish because the verb endings clarify both person and number. However, the subject pronoun is used if the subject is not clear, or if there is a need for emphasis. When used as the subject in an indefinite sentence, it has no equivalent subject pronoun in Spanish.