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use them to complete the sentences that follow. 000
atajo/hatajo pollo/poyo ola/hola
uso/huso azar/azahar sabia/savia callado/cayado
bello/vello basta/vasta asta/hasta
(a) Irene ... amigo Rafa pasa las vacaciones en nuestra casa.
(h) Juana es capaz de bailar toda la noche.
(i) El juicio es injusto.
(j) La lana del tapiz es de color azul.
(8) Place an accent mark (acento ... fu...
... ¿Que dia y a que hora llegaras?
Yo tomare vacaciones a partir de la proxima semana, asi que estare
libre para salir contigo. Podriamos pasar unos dias en la playa. ¿Que
te parece? Nicolas me ofrecio ... italics.
(a) Antonio y Raquel acaban de casarse. boda fue ayer.
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(b) Ricardo y yo pasaremos vacaciones en Guatemala.
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... following
useful.
Grammars
Alarcos Llorach, Emilio, Gram´atica de la lengua espa˜nola,Real Academia Espa˜nola,
Madrid: Espasa, 2003 (Very comprehensive but for Spanish speakers, and not
presented in tabular ... same, one is always lost in rapid speech: la ayuda =
l’ayuda, para agradecerle = par’agradecerle. Note the very common, colloquial Mexican
expression for many: hasta pa’aventar pa’ar...
... pants, trousers
el pijama / la piyama (M) pajamas
*la pinza pincers
la t´actica tactics
*la tropa troops
Thewords asterisked also have a plural form. In fact, alicates, bragas, escaleras, mallas ... entr´oenelalmac´en con papel moneda.
Quer´ a comprar una luz piloto pero no estaba en la zona euro y no hablaba espa ˜nol. S´olo sab´ a
una palabra clave, nada m´as, porque su lengua madre era...
... something about a verb, an adjective or another
adverb:
Me Ilaman muy a menudo.
They call me very often.
Ana Mar a era increíblemente bella.
Ana Mar a was incredibly beautiful.
Hablaba tremendamente ... spelling
Pronunciation is described here using the symbols of the International Phonetic
Alphabet.
The Spanish alphabet
1.1
Letter Name Pronunciation Examples
aa [a] ama [ama]
bbe[b] a...
... visa problem; My father hasn’t played football for years.
5 The adverbs always and never are also inserted between the auxiliary and the main verb:
My mother has always driven a Ford car; I have ... end of the war. … since the war ended.
8 The adverb ago appears with the simple past tense only: His grandfather died many
years ago. However, ago may appear in a time clause or phrase introdu...