Spanish Contractions
English has quite a lot of contractions (short forms of a word or group of words made by leaving out a sound or letter), such as can’t, we’ll, you’d, they’re, and you’ve. Spanish, however, has only two!
Meet Al and Del
When the prepositions a (to) or de (of or from) come before the definite article el , they combine with it to form a contraction.
More on Al
Normally, whenever a and el are together, you must contract them to al . However, if el is a capitalized part of a name, it does not contract to al when used with a.
For example:
More on Del
Normally, whenever de and el are together, you must shorten them to del . However, if el is a capitalized part of a name, it does not contract to del when used with de. Sound familiar? It should. It's the same rule you just learned for al!
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