Invariable/Variable Parts of the Sentence
¡Hola!
I have been searching throughout the web for a while, and I couldn't waste any more time. What are the invariable parts of the sentence in the Spanish Language? I found answers and slideshows, however, they are in Spanish and I can't translate them. Can somebody help me? Below you can see some of the links of what I'm talking about:
Slideshow in Spanish for Invariable Parts of a Sentence
Sildeshow in Spanish for Variable Parts of a Sentence
All I basically need is somebody to take the information from those slideshows and write them down in English for me to understand. If you have even more information, your are more than welcome to write them down.
¡Gracias!
4 Answers
Curly,
I don't understand the question. What do you mean, surely any part is variable, you just change the words?? Could you give some examples, I can't be the only person here who has a slow computer and is tired in the evenings, I like an example, I hardly ever follow up links, it takes ages.
I'm sure it's an interesting question, if only I could understand it!
Variable parts:
Nouns, pronoun, adjetives, verbs, articles:
They match gender and number.
Invariable parts:
Adverbs, conjunctions, prepositions, interjections.
The man went to the store under the bridge. - El hombre fue a la tienda de abajo del puente
The men went to two stores under the bridge - Los hombres fueron a dos tiendas de abajo del puente.
I was going to my house - Estaba llendo para mi casa.
They were going to their houses - Estaban llendo para sus casas
The - El, la, los = articles, variables.
Man, men, store, sotres - hombre, hombres, tienda, tiendas = nouns, variables.
went, was, were- fue, fueron, estaba, estaban = verbs, variables.
I, they, my, their - mi, sus = pronouns, variables.
To, of - para, de = preposition, invariable.
under - abajo = adverb, invariable.
Del = conjunction, invariable.
The slide shows are a traditional grammatical approach, for the most part. In modern linguistic terms it is a matter of functors, like Chomsky's S-P, useful in some subsets of various languages, but, after Chao Yuen Ren, subsets nonetheless.
Good practice translating them--might learn some Spanish, and English, as opposed to trying to look like it on other people's work.
Curly what is your first language? - knowing that may help us help you.
I think it is just about word order in a sentence. I could be wrong but it is late in the eveninh=g here.
Sometimes it does not matter much other times it changes the meaning and / or makes the sentence un intelligible / ambiguous..
Same in English but English is less flexible sometimes..
