Saturday, May 23, 2009

Spanish Grammar Lesson with the Progressive Verb Tense.

In British , it's the auxiliary verb "to be" and the present participle. The present tense is employed much more often in British than it is employed in Spanish. In Spanish, the present tense is used to stress that an action is taking place now. But many Spanish grammar books don't indicate that there's another use for the present progressive tense. I was making an attempt to tell an adult that I am learning Spanish. Since the Spanish grammar books taught me the Spanish present progressive tense is only used to explain actions that are in progress "right now," I didn't use the present progressive tense to assert that "I am learning Spanish.

"Because I wasn't learning Spanish at that particular moment. At that really moment, I was attempting to talk to her in Spanish. So I attempted telling my nextdoor neighboor's 5 years old that "Yo aprendo espaol" who proudly corrected my Spanish. Here's an example of a reflexive verb being employed in British : I wash myself.

Spanish reflexive verbs consist of a verb and a reflexive pronoun. The following are reflexive pronouns or objects of reflexive verbs. I wash myself However, when there are 2 verbs in the sentence, the reflexive pronoun either comes right before the 1st verb or follows the second verb.

These are some examples using reflexive verbs. Me afeito I shave myself Te duchas You take a shower Se llama Juan He calls himself John Nos dormimos We go to sleep No nos sentamos we do not sit down Se enojan They get insane Se levantan All of you get up Te cepillas los dientes You brush your gnashers. =========================================================== Who else wants to find out how to communicate Spanish like a genuine Latin American? Patrick Jackson owns of Learning Spanish madly. Discover more on learning basic Spanish.

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