Spanish Grammar and Syntax: Essential Linguistic Concepts

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Syntactic Analysis

  • Subject (S): Who or what performs the action.
  • Verbal Predicate (PV): The core action of the sentence.
  • Nominal Predicate (GPN): Uses linking verbs like to be, seem, or appear.
  • Attribute: Adjective describing the subject.
  • Direct Object (CD): Answers "what?" or "who?". Can be replaced by pronouns (lo, la, los, las).
  • Indirect Object (CI): Answers "to whom?" or "for whom?". Replaced by pronouns (me, te, se, nos, os, le, les).
  • Circumstantial Complements (CC):
    • Quantity: How much?
    • Manner: How?
    • Time: When?
    • Place: Where?
    • Company: With whom?
    • Instrument: With what?
    • Purpose: For what?
  • Regime Complement: Preposition + noun/verb.

Text Classes

  • Narrative: Relates events or actions.
  • Descriptive: Details the characteristics of someone or something.
  • Informative: Provides factual information.
  • Poetic: Uses language to embellish or evoke emotion.

Expressive Resources

  • Metaphor: Identifies a real term with an image.
  • Comparison: Compares a real term with an image (often uses "like" or "as").
  • Personification: Attributing human qualities to non-human entities.

Conjunctions

  • Coordinating: Copulative (and, nor), Disjunctive (or, u), Adversative (but, however, despite).
  • Distributive: (now... now, whether... or).
  • Subordinating: Comparative, causal (because), final (so that), conditional (if), concessive (although), and consecutive (therefore).

Parts of Speech

  • Nouns: Words naming people, animals, things, or ideas.
  • Adjectives: Describe modes, states, or origins.
  • Articles: Define the noun.
  • Demonstratives: Indicate proximity (this, that, these, those).
  • Possessives: Indicate ownership (my, your, his, her, our, their).
  • Numerals: Cardinals (one, two), Ordinals (first, second), Fractional (half, third), Multiplicative (double, triple), and Indefinite (some, any, many, few).
  • Personal Pronouns: I, you, he/she, we, you, they.

Verb Tenses

Indicative Mood

  • Simple: Present, Imperfect, Preterite, Future, Conditional.
  • Compound: Perfect, Pluperfect, Preterite Anterior, Future Perfect, Conditional Perfect.

Subjunctive Mood

  • Simple: Present, Imperfect, Future.
  • Compound: Perfect, Pluperfect, Future Perfect.

Imperative Mood

  • Present tense commands.

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