Gramática

== In English, it is necessary to use a subject such as //I, you, we//. However, in Spanish, you can often omit the subject because the verb ending indicates who the subject is.

**Clarification / Contrast ** —¿Qué enseñan **ellos **? — **Ella **enseña arte y **él **enseña física. //What do they teach? She teaches art, and he teaches physics. // **Emphasis ** —¿Quién desea trabajar hoy? — **Yo **no deseo trabajar hoy. //Who wants to work today? I don ////’ ////t want to work today. // //<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">**Como reconocer y utilizar los infinitivos.** // [|-Ar verb game] [|Animated Grammar -ar verb]

[|Explanation -Ar verb conjugation] =Presente de los verbos en -ar =

1. Action words are verbs. Most verbs in Spanish belong to a family or conjugation. Verbs that have an infinitive (//to speak, to study//) that ends in **-ar (hablar, estudiar)** are called **-ar** verbs or first conjugation verbs. In this chapter you have learned the following **-ar** verbs **estudiar, enseñar, levantar, contestar, hablar,** **tomar, mirar, escuchar, sacar, llevar, regresar,** **necesitar, navegar, buscar, enviar, comprar, pagar, trabajar.** =**2.** All Spanish verbs change their endings according to the subject. Study the following forms of the verbs **hablar.** = =**yo habl o **= =**tú habl as **= =**él/ella/****usted habl a **= =**nosotros/as habl amos **= =**ellos/ellas/ustedes habl an **= =**<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">¡ATENCIÓN! **= =<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">3. The Spanish verbs **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">buscar, escuchar, esperar, ** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">and **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">mirar ** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">do not need to be followed by prepositions as they do in English. = =**<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> Busco la tarea. Escucho la música. **= //<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> I ////<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">’ ////<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">m looking for the homework. I ////<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">’ ////<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">m listening to the music. // **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15.93px;"> Espero el autobús. Miro la pizarra. ** =//<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.93px;"> I ////<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.93px;">’ ////<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.93px;">m waiting for the bus. I ////<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.93px;">’ ////<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.93px;">m looking at the blackboard //= = = =<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">4. In Spanish, as in English, when two verbs are used together with no change of subject, the second verb is generally in the infinitive. = = **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> Deseo hablar ** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">con don Francisco. = =//<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> I want to speak with Don Francisco. //= =**<span style="color: #ff0031; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15.73px;"> Necesitamos comprar **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15.73px;">cuadernos. = =//<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> We need to buy notebooks //= = = =<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">5. To make a sentence negative in Spanish, the word **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">no **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">is placed before the conjugated verb. = =<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">In this case, **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">no **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">means //<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">not //<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">. = =<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> Ellos **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">no ** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">miran la televisión. = =//<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> They don ////<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">’ ////<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">t watch television. //= =<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> Alicia **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">no ** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">desea bailar ahora. = =//<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> Alicia doesn ////<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">’ ////<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">t want to dance now //<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">. =

**<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">¡INTÉNTALO! **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Provide the present tense forms of these verbs. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">1. Yo español. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">2. Ellos español. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">3. Inés_ español. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">4. Nosotras _ español. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">5. Tú español. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">6. Los estudiantes español. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">7. Usted _español. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">8. Javier y yo español.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">(hablar) **

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