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TEACHING POINTS IN SPANISH GRAMMAR
Jill Kerper Mora
San Diego State University
Word Study & Semantics
Parts of speech & inflections for change of function (zapato, zapatero)
Diminutives, augmentatives, superlatives (ito, ón, ote, ísimo)
Inflections & agreement (concordancia) (subject-verb, adjectives, possessives)
Enclisis (combining two classes of words) (cualquier, démelo)
Contractions (conjunción) & shortened forms of words (apócope)
Compound words (abrelata, tumbaburros)
Demonstrative adjectives & pronouns
Use of definite article vs. possessive pronouns with body parts & personal items
Sentence Level Grammar & Syntax
Syntactic signals & changes in different sentence types (questions, negations, commands)
Question words (qué, quién, cuándo, dónde & prepositions, cuánto) & word order for question formation
Sentence structure for comparison & superlatives
Pronoun positions for declarative, negation, commands & pronoun enclisis & word order with commands (démelo, háblele)
Use of the personal a with direct objects
Meaning-base syntax & sentence structure peculiar to Spanish with verb gustar & use of passive se
Verb Formation & Usage
Verb conjugation & endings-present tense
Use of subject pronouns & embedded subjects (yo hablo, nosotros hablamos vs. hablo, hablamos, etc.)
Contrast & meaning of ser & estar
Contrast & meaning of preterite vs. imperfect past tenses
Compound verbs with estar with gerund
Compound verbs with haber with past participle
Formation & uses of the subjunctive mood
Formal & informal usages & forms of address
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