Nombre_______________________________________________ Fecha__________________________________
Inventario de errores gramaticales:
1)Sepelling
Escribe todas las palabras correctamente en el espacio dado.
1. ______ accent error
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2. ______ double letter error (only the consonants in CaRoLiNa) can be doubled
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3. ______ singular vs. plural spelling change (z/ces, ción/ciones, és/eses, ón/ones
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4. ______ demonstratives (este/estos/esto, ese/esos/eso, aquel/aquellos/aquello)
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5. ______ other errors (list them here)
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2)Word Choice
1. ______ ser vs. estar (Count the errors ______)
2. ______ saber vs. conocer
3. ______ haber (when it’s there) vs. ser/estar
4. ______ encontrar vs. conocer
5. ______ pero vs. sino
6. ______ bien vs. buen/o
7. ______ mal vs. malo
8. anglicismos:
a. ______ to realize (darse cuenta de)
b. ______ to have fun (divertirse)
c. ______ to make money (ganar dinero)
d. ______ to have a good time (pasarlo bien)
e. ______ to support [apoyar (support emotionally or an opinion) vs. mantener
(support financially) vs. sostener (support physically or structurally) vs.
soportar (to stand/tolerate)]
f. ______ all [NOT ALL OF (todo el/toda la/todos los/todas las)]
g. ______ years ago (hace # años)
h. ______ otro: meaning another (used with article)
i. ______ other (write it in): ________________________________________________
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3)Prepositions
1. ______ por vs. para (Count the errors ______)
2. ______ uses of de (manera de, oportunidad de, estar + emotion de)
3. ______ dangling preposition (at the end of a sentence or clause with no object)
4. ______ contraction errors (al y del)
5. ______ other (describe)
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6. verb WITH prepositions:
a. ______ try to (tratar DE)
b. ______ depend on (depender DE)
c. ______ help to (ayudar A)
d. ______ start to (empezar A/continuar A)
7. verbs WITHOUT prepositions:
e. ______ ask for (pedir)
f. ______ listen to (escuchar)
g. ______ look at (mirar)
4)Personal A
1. ______ errors with the personal a before objects of the verb that are people
5)Pronoun
1. ______ errors with direct object pronouns (lo/la/los/las)
2. ______ errors with indirect object pronouns (le/les)
3. ______ errors with prepositional pronouns (para él, mí. ti, sí mismo)
4. ______ errors with reflexive verbs (se) (list verbs that should have been reflexive)
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6)Tense
1. ______ pretérito vs. imperfecto
2. ______ presente vs. pasado
3. otro: describe___________________________________________________________________________
7)Subject/Verb agreement
1. ______ collective noun + singular verb (la gente/la familia etc.)
2. ______ other: describe your subject/verb agreement errors
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8)Form
1. ______ participio presente vs. participio pasado
2. ______ infinitivo vs. participio presente
3. ______ preposición + infinitivo
4. ______ use of gustar, interesar, encantar or other indirect object verb
5. ______ continue –ing (continuar + present participle)
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9)Mood
1. ______ using subjunctive after pensar/creer/ser obvio, evidente, verdad, cierto
2. ______ other: describe your errors with indicative vs. subjunctive
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10,11,12 Gender and Number
1. ______ gender of nouns ending in –e (la fuente, la parte, la gente) (list the words)
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2. ______ gender of nouns –ma (list the words)
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3. ______ gender of nouns –ción (list the words)
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4. ______ gender of nouns ending in –d (list the words)
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5. ______ noun-adjective agreement (list the words)
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13)Conjugation
1. ______ la conjugación de ciertos verbos (list the verbs in the infinitive)
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2. ______ conjugation of a certain tense in particular
a. ______ pretérito
b. ______ imperfecto
c. ______ futuro
d. ______ condicional
e. ______ presente del subjuntivo
f. ______ imperfecto del subjuntivo
g. ______ los tiempos perfectos
14)Article
1. ______ starting a sentence with a noun without the article
2. ______ definite (el/la/los/las) vs. indefinite (un/una/unos/unas)
3. ______ using un/una/unos/unas + otro *otro can only be used with definite article
16)Word Order
1. ______ word order with bueno and mejor
2. ______ adjectives after nouns
3. ______ other word order errors (describe)
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MISC
1. ______ comparativos (más que/de, tan/tanto como, etc. )
2. ______ errors with mejor/peor/mayor/menor (CAN’T BE USED WITH MAS)
3. ______ que vs. lo que vs. quien
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Uso del subjuntivo:
1. Do you have a total of 5? _____sí _____ no
2. presente del subjuntivo: Copy your sentences here.
3. imperfecto del subjuntivo: Copy your sentences here.
Uso de transiciones:
1. How many transitional expressions did you use? _____
2. What transitions did you use more than once? Write them down and put a
synonym in parentheses.
Contesta en inglés: (you may just list items)
What do YOU need to work on most to improve your essay?
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