Sentence Phasing Help????
Well I'm pretty much stuck on this and really need some help......some explanation will be good.
Sample: Nosotros / desear / bailar
Solution: Nosotros deseamos bailar.
1) ellas / enseñar / administración de empresas
2) yo / necesitar / preparar / la tarea
3) Héctor y yo / comprar / libros / en la librería
4) (mí) / gustar / bailar / los sábados
5) Enrique / desear / escuchar música
6) ¿(ti) / gustar / la psicología?
4 Answers
Well done for giving it a go, it's the best way to learn.
Francot has given you the right answers but just so you know for next time here's the reason why some of yours were wrong.
)Ellas enseña administración de empresas
Because 'ellas' means 'they' you can't use 'enseña' because this means 'he teaches', 'she teaches', 'you teach' etc. You can only use 'enseñan' - 'they teach'. Your verb needs to be conjugated to match the person or people that are doing the action of the verb.
2)Yo necesito preparar la tarea
3)Héctor y yo compraran libros en la librería.
When you have names instead or as well as pronouns (like I, you, he etc) you need to think - If I take out the name(s) and pronouns, which pronoun can I replace them with. So if you take out Hector and I - which pronoun best fits? they, you plural or we? It's 'we' right? We buy books .... and Hector and I buy books .... match, they make sense to refer to the same people. Therefore you need the we/nosotros form of the verb - compramos, not compran.
4)Me gustar bailar los sábados.
Gustar is a verb that confuses most learners because although we translate it as 'to like' it really means 'to be pleasing to'. So this sentence literally says ... To me it is pleasing to dance on Saturdays. So to say 'it is pleasing' you need to conjugate the verb gustar as 'gusta'. It works like the English verb 'disgust'. It disgusts me when I see people throwing rubbish out of their window.
5)Enrique desea escuchar el música
6)¿Te gusta psicología?
It's often hard to know where to use the articles (the, an etc) in Spanish because they are often used differently than in English, but in this case psychology needs to go with its article - la psicología.
1)Ellas enseñan administración de empresas.
2)Yo necesito preparar la tarea. ("Yo", is not necessary when start a sentence).
3)Héctor y yo compramos libros en la librería.(compraremos[future tense]).
4)Me gustar gusta bailar los sábados.
5)Enrique desea escuchar el música.
6)¿Te gusta la psicología?
Saludos.
You need to try it first and then we will help you with corrections.
Let the sample be your guide. It is formatted subject, verb, object (in this case another verb)
Give it a try.
1)Ellas enseña administración de empresas
2)Yo necesito preparar la tarea
3)Héctor y yo compraran libros en la librería
4)Me gustar bailar los sábados.
5)Enrique desea escuchar el música
6)¿Te gusta psicología?
