A guide to the structure and use of

 

The Spanish Language

 

 

A text written by

 

 

Joseph Martin Carro

 

October 2022 version V©

ISBN 978-1-365-61473-6 

jcarro@charter.net

 

Table of Contents

 

Chapter 1                    Pronunciation

                                    Words

                                    The Spanish Alphabet

                                    Vowels

                                    Vowel Combinations

                                    Consonants

 

Chapter 2                    Nouns and Gender

                                    The Plural of Nouns

 

Chapter 3                    Modifiers

                                    All about the ly Forms

                                    Taking Descriptions to a Higher Level

 

Chapter 4                    All about the

                                    How about a?

 

Chapter 5                    The Pronouns

                                    The Subject Pronouns

                                    The Object Pronouns

                                    The Indirect Pronouns

 

Chapter 6                    Possession

 

Chapter 7                    The Spanish Verbs

 

Chapter 8                    One Way of Expressing Past Time

 

Chapter 9                    Future Time

 

Chapter 10                  Expressing a Conditional Action

 

Chapter 11                  Expressing Past Time

 

Chapter 12                  Talking about the Present Time

 

Chapter 13                 What have We Here?

                                    Past Forms of Verbs

 

Chapter 14                  Expressing Uncertainty

 

Chapter 15                  Speculating about Things

 

Chapter 16                  Reflexive Verbs

 

Chapter 17                  Active or Passive?

 

Chapter 18                  The “ing” form of Verbs

 

Chapter 19                  Speaking Indirectly

 

Chapter 20                  Being and Knowing

                                    To Be or Not To Be

                                    Getting to know You

 

Chapter 21                 The little words

                                    The Word too

                                    The Word yet

                                    The Spanish Word ya

                                    The Forms of the Word but

                                    And - Or?

 

Chapter 22                 Who, What, This, That

                                    Who and Whom

                                    Whose

                                    What, Which, and That

                                    This, That, These, and Those

 

Chapter 23                  Prepositions

 

Chapter 24                  Counting in Spanish

                                    Cardinal numbers

                                    Ordinal numbers

                                    Positives and Negatives

 

Chapter 25                   Idioms

 

Chapter 26                  Some Common Expressions

                                    Spanish Sayings

                                    Useful information

                                    Expressions

 

Table of Spanish verbs - see pages 27 to 37. Gerunds are on page 36, and past participles are on page 37.

 

Chapter 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37

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