Learning Spanish – Part 7 – Essential Elements of Spanish Grammar and Verb Tables
In my last article I started to talk about Spanish verb formations. In this article I want to talk specifically about verb conjugation books and a little about learning Spanish grammar in general.
For the most part the Spanish language is highly ordered. You can pretty much dissect any Spanish sentence and understand why it has been constructed in the way that it has, simply by learning some fundamental concepts about Spanish grammar. Once you understand those concepts you can use them to formulate other sentences.
My intention here is not to discuss in any great detail the workings of any particular aspect of Spanish grammar but rather to indicate those elements of Spanish grammar that are pretty much essential if you want to gain a good understanding of how the Spanish language works. Below I have divided these elements into four categories.
Spanish verb formations Different tenses.
Gender Forming masculine and feminine nouns and adjectives. Verbs and gender.
Types of words Using prepositions / conjunctions / adverbs etc.
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