Help needed with sentences
Hello everyone. I recently joined here and I need help with the following sentences. In the empty spaces I need to insert either verbal forms, noun, preposition, adjective, pronoun etc. Can you people please help me with this and give your examples? The sentences still need make sense, so any word will not work. Thank you. ¿____te gusta la ropa de Zara? la casa de juan es ____ grande que la de Ana. Ella ___ el autobus para ir al mercado. Fernando es el ___ de sus hermanos. Me encanta la ____ sinfonia de Beethoven. Ellos llegaron a china el __de enero del 2015. A david le duele el ____. ¿___quires aprender a nadar si nunca te banas? ¿____ pelicula visteis anoche en el cine? diciembre me gustaria viajar ___Portugal___.
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Hi.
Do you understand the Spanish words that you were given? Or is it all just totally over your head? If you don't understand the Spanish, there's not much I can do except hand you the answers... which I'm not going to do.
Let's take a couple of examples.
La casa de Juan es ----- grande que la de Ana.
This says that Juan's house is something about large than Ana's. Must be larger, or maybe less large. Do you know how to say either of those?
Ella ----- el autobus para ir al mercado.
This says that she did something with a bus to go to the market. What do you suppose that might be?
If you take a stab at doing with the other sentences what I have done with those two examples, and post that stab here, someone's likely to help you further.
I will try - but I am still learning too (1) is OK (2) Más ( yours OK but need accent on más) (3) OK (4) missing the accent on más (5) not nueve but novena ( ninth) (6) needs a date e.g. cinco (7) LA cabeza but maybe should be el estómago? (8) I would say Por qué (why?) (9) I would say Cual instead of Qué (10) OK
These questions or sentences MUST have come with a suggested word list, from which you could choose to put in the blanks. I will put in what sounds logical. Those that you got correct I will leave as is. My corrections will appear in bold. I copied and pasted your latest attempt and put in my corrections on top of that.
¿A ti te gusta la ropa de Zara? la casa de juan es más grande que la de Ana. Ella TOMA el autobus para ir al mercado. fernando es el mayor de sus hermanos. Me encanta la novena sinfonía de Beethoven. Ellos llegaron a China el primero de enero del 2015. A David le duele el brazo. ¿Cómo quieres aprender a nadar si nunca te bañas? ¿Qué película visteis anoche en el cine? EN diciembre me gustaría viajar A Portugal.
(Note) Re: "primero de enero" You only use the ordinal number with the first of any month. With subsequent dates you use regular counting numbers like dos, tres, cuatro, etc.
You will note also that on some of my corrections, your word was right, you were just missing an accent mark or a capital letter. On questions you need an upside down question mark.
I don't have time to go through it all at the moment. 1 If you look at the link 'gustar' in my answer it includes a tí te gusta ... A tí is used because the person doing the liking is tu 2nd person singular. Using gustar in the third person singular and plural is a very common construction similar to it [the clothes at Zara] are pleasing to me/you/ them etc. It is confusing as clothes in Spanish is singular. You use plural gustan if the things you like are plural but if it is an activity ie a verb in the infinitive use gusta. Reread the lesson. In your example a tí is used for emphasis as tí is always you.
6 Llegaron is a past tense [preterite] and hoy [today] is an adverb. Just put a day from 2 January to 31 of January. In Spanish they use the ordinary numbers eg two three etc. Omit hoy!
The one with cabeza - that was my example but your sentence needs a body part with el. Look up body parts most of them are masculine.
I will deal with cómo etc later if you do not get more answers/corrections
TU te gusta la ropa de Zara? la casa de juan es MAS grande que la de Ana. Ella TOMA el autobus para ir al mercado. fernando es el MAS VIEJO de sus hermanos. Me encanta la NUEVE sinfonia de Beethoven. Ellos llegaron a china el HOY de enero del 2015. A david le duele el CABEZA. COMO quires aprender a nadar si nunca te banas? QUE pelicula visteis anoche en el cine? EN diciembre me gustaria viajar A Portugal.
I put my answers in caps. Please could someone look at them and tell me if they are correct? And maybe give tips on what to improve
These are based on basic important constructions in Spanish. For example encantar. doler and gustar are often used in the third person it pleases me me gusta, they please me - me gustan, it charms me me encanta it pains me - me duele [3rd person of doler]
Here is a lesson on gustar. You will see for clarification or emphasis you can add a ella, a tí etc. Many people would say the sentence you have written without the gap filled
When you talk about something hurting you say me duele + the part of the body eg me duele la cabeza.[my head hurts] If you are talking about something plural like teeth you use 3rd person plural. You will learn other ways to use doler at a later stage.
Your final sentences are about, Que, como cual etc. When they are used as interrogatives [part of a question] they have a tilde eg ¿Cómo? Revise the lessons you have had recently, then edit your question to include your answers and we will say if they are correct.
