Test your grammar and spelling – 12-09-2010

Question

Are there any grammar / spelling mistakes? Please, make the proper corrections

These are some exercises to improve your Spanish... I hope you like them.

Don't forget to use a tilde or capitalization when it's needed.

1	¿La siguiente oración tiene un error sintáctico or semántico? Semántico
2	La capital de EEUU es Washington D.C.
3	¿Estoy en el bus?

Intended for non-native Spanish speakers

The following part is my attempt to write the same sentences in English.

Please, feel free to correct my English.

1	Has the following sentence a syntactical or semantical error? It's semantical	Is the error in the following sentence syntactical or semantical? It's semantical (Sheila-Foster's contribution)
2	Vancouver is the capital of USA	Washington D.C. is the capital of the USA
3	Am I on or in the bus?	Am I on the bus?

Congratulations to all the participants. Excellent answers. It was difficult to choose the best one

Does the following sentence have a syntactical or semantical error? - HotChickCD, Dec 9, 2010

Thanks HotChickCD...Directly to the dunce corner.... :( - Carlos-F, Dec 9, 2010

I agree with HotChick. :) - Jason7R, Dec 9, 2010

Dunce corner? Have you seen my sentences in Spanish?? I'll meet you there!! - Jason7R, Dec 9, 2010

Does the following sentence has a syntax or semantic error? Semantics. - bandit51jd, Dec 9, 2010

Sorry I meant....have a syntax.... - bandit51jd, Dec 9, 2010

The capital of the United States is Vancouver. - bandit51jd, Dec 9, 2010

For me, if you are going to use the Spanish dentro de, your English sentence might read, "Am I on or inside the bus?". - bandit51jd, Dec 9, 2010

Muchas respuestas excelentes. Sólo basado en quien respondió antes que los demás se podía escoger la mejor respuesta. - Carlos-F, Dec 9, 2010

#3, In the English language #3 you could use either "in" or "on" depending on the context. - Maria-Russell, Dec 9, 2010

For example: When people say, "John got off the bus," They're really saying he went from the inside to the outside of the bus, but people usualy describe it the first way i.e. "he got off the bus." - Maria-Russell, Dec 9, 2010

But, you can't say I'm in the bus, can you? (You say: I'm on the bus)... - Carlos-F, Dec 9, 2010

Answer 1

1 ¿La sigiente oracion tiene un error sintáctico or semántico Semantico
2 La capital de EEUU es Vancouver
3 ¿Estoi en el o dentro del bus?

1. ¿La siguiente oración tiene un error sintáctico o semántico? Semántico. (I'm assuming this is the answer you wanted for this question).
2. La capital del EEUU es Washington, D.C.
3. ¿Estoy en o dentro del autóbus?

Simplemente.......Perfecto. - Carlos-F, Dec 9, 2010

Slowly but surely.... :) - Jason7R, Dec 9, 2010

Answer 2

¿La sigiente oracion tiene un error sintáctico or semántico? Semantico 2 La capital de EEUU es Vancouver 3 ¿Estoi en el o dentro del bus?

1.¿Tiene la siguiente oración un error sintáctico or semántico? Tiene un error semántico

2 La capital del Estados Unidos es Vancouver (De verdad la cuidad capital es Washington D.C)

3 ¿Estoy en o dentro del autobús?

Editor's note Having remembered what Heidi said in Skype chat about answering using a complete sentence I have decided to turn the response to question number 1 into a complete sentence.

Corregid mis español, por favor

#1 and #3 Perfect - Carlos-F, Dec 9, 2010

#2 It was a tricky question. The answer could be: La capital de los EEUU es Washington D.C. or Vancouver no es la capital de los EEUU. - Carlos-F, Dec 9, 2010

Carlos I didnt realiae that it was a question where was the question mark please??? - FELIZ77, Dec 9, 2010

Oh I see by implication it was answering a question Hmmm okay I thought I was simply correcting the Spanish not the factual content too - FELIZ77, Dec 9, 2010

Answer 3

I wish I could learn how to make those very attractive colourful boxes!

1 ¿La sigiente oracion tiene un error sintáctico or semántico? Semantico ¿La siguiente oración tiene un error sintáctico o semántico? Semántico. 2 La capital de EEUU es Vancouver. La capital de los EEUU es la ciudad de Washington, DC (jeje) 3 ¿Estoi en el o dentro del bus? ¿Estoy en el o dentro del autobús?

1 Has the following sentence a syntactical or semantical error? It's semantical Does the following sentence have a syntactical or semantical error? 2 Vancouver is the capital of USA No, it`s just the most beautiful city in N. America! 3 Am I on or in the bus? perfect

Spanish answers: Perfect.../ English answers: Please, look at Sheila's answers - Carlos-F, Dec 9, 2010

Answer 4

The question "Has the following sentence a syntactical or semantical error?" actually only asks for the amswer "Yes" or "No".

To require the given answer, i.e. "It's semantical", the question would need to be rephrased as "Is the error in the following sentence syntactical or semantical?"

Also, we would always say ... " of the USA", because "states" is a noun and thus needs a definate article, like "the United Kingdom" - and, of course, it isn't Vancouver

GGood points but we are practising Spanish grammer and spelling rather than determining the accuracy of the statement . - FELIZ77, Dec 9, 2010

I know - but I'm much better at English grammer than at Spanish :) - sheila-foster, Dec 9, 2010

Okay lol Fair point :) - FELIZ77, Dec 9, 2010

#1 This question has an explicit answer: semantical. Therefore you are right, the English question needs to be rephrased. - Carlos-F, Dec 9, 2010

#2 Yes, ...the USA (the question has a sintactical error), the name of the capital. - Carlos-F, Dec 9, 2010

Excellent Sheila... - Carlos-F, Dec 9, 2010

Answer 5

1	¿Tiene la oración siguiente un sintáctico o error de semánticol? Es semantical
2	Vancouver no es la capital de EEUU.
3	¿Estoy en el o dentro del autobús?

#1 semántico instead of semantical / #2 It's a good answer. Another could be: Washington D.C. es la capital de (de los) EEUU - Carlos-F, Dec 9, 2010

#3...en el o dentro del.... - Carlos-F, Dec 9, 2010

Answer 6

1) ¿La siguiente oración tiene un error sintáctico o semántico? Un error semántico.

2) Vancouver es la capital de British Columbia.

3) ¿Estoy en o dentro del autobús?

Very well. Just a problem with an article in #1. / #2 It's a valid answer, although I was thinking in the capital of USA... - Carlos-F, Dec 9, 2010

Hmmm...I can't seem to figure out the mistake in sentence 1. I taught siguiente is mascaline :S - HotChickCD, Dec 9, 2010

Just to help you Carlos we would say Very good rather than very well here - FELIZ77, Dec 9, 2010

Got it, siguiente is an adjective describing oración hence it will be feminine ;) Sorry about changing 2, Gary told me there are catch to the sentences so I taught that was one, I know Vancouver is in British Columbia, Canada. - HotChickCD, Dec 9, 2010

HotChic so I 'thought' that was one of them :) - FELIZ77, Dec 9, 2010

Very good (thanks Feliz). #1 Yes, it's "la siguiente..." - Carlos-F, Dec 9, 2010

Answer 7

Here is my solution:

¿La siguiente oración tiene un error sintáctico o semántico? semántico

La capital de EEUU es Washington, D.C.

¿Estoy en o dentro del bus?

I'm sure you meant to put D.C. (District of Columbia) with Washington. :) - Jason7R, Dec 9, 2010

Oh yeah, Washington by itself is a state in the U.S. :) You definitely want to make that distinction. :) - Jason7R, Dec 9, 2010

Okay :) - 0066c384, Dec 9, 2010

Otra respuesta excelente. - Carlos-F, Dec 9, 2010

#2 Perfect answer, because there were a semantical error... - Carlos-F, Dec 9, 2010

Answer 8

1 ¿Tiene la siguiente oración un error sintáctico o semántico? Semántico.

2 La capital de los EEUU no es Vancouver.

3 ¿Estoy en o dentro del bus /autobús?

Excelente respuesta. - Carlos-F, Dec 9, 2010

Answer 9

1 ¿Hace la siguiente oración tiene un error sintáctico o semántico? Semántico.

2 La capital de EE.UU. es Vancouver.

3 ¿Estoy en o en el autobús? ¿Estoy en o dentro del autobús?

Bandit you cannot use both hacer and tener in the same sentence in the way you have used it ...it is either tiene or hace :) - FELIZ77, Dec 9, 2010

Answer 10

The word should be estoy and not estoi

OK. What about the others? - Carlos-F, Dec 9, 2010