July 3, 2019
As noted in recent Tips for the Week, there are three grades of comparison in Spanish: Equality, Inequality and Superlative, and an absolute superlative. This Tip […]
June 17, 2019
As noted in last week’s Tip for the Week, there are three grades of comparison in Spanish: Equality, Inequality and Superlative, and an absolute superlative. This […]
June 11, 2019
In Spanish, there are three grades of comparison: Equality, Inequality and Superlative, and an absolute superlative. This Tip for the Week is the first in a […]
June 2, 2019
This Tip for the Week is for teachers who teach lower-level Spanish classes to native speakers of English, whether at the secondary or post-secondary level. This […]
May 12, 2019
Even after many English-speaking students of Spanish have learned the forms of and the grammatical functions of object pronouns, and understand the notions they convey, they […]
April 13, 2019
Many, if not most practicing or aspiring Analytic Linguists can be distinguished and described in terms of their linguistic background. They can be divided into two […]
January 6, 2019
There are a number of verb pairs in Spanish that cause difficulty for English speaking learners of Spanish. Usually, the confusion is because there is only […]
December 29, 2018
The verb dejar as a stand-alone verb, means to leave something or someone behind. Thus, it can mean to abandon or to jilt, or to stand […]
December 22, 2018
Some frequently encountered Spanish helping verbs deviate slightly from the simple pattern of verb-plus-infinitive construction you read about in the previous Tip for the Week. This […]
December 14, 2018
This Tip for the Week is the first in a two-part series introducing readers to helping verbs in Spanish, more technically known as auxiliary or modal […]