Parts of the Spanish speech
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 Like English the Spanish speech has thousands of words that people use everyday to
communicate, and as we know not all these words have the same function. For
Example, some words express “action”, others words “name things, describe
characteristics, qualities, complement, join or link other words, …” All these are the
“grammatical building blocks" of the language necessary to express our thoughts,
our needs, feelings and everything we want to communicate to others.
 So if we are interesting in learning a second language, the learning process could
resemble the decision of buying a house from someone or build and customize one.
If you chose the second alternative, and if you do it for the first time, these
questions will be coming to your mind:
1. What materials and tools do I need? How these will be used in this project?
2. What I need to do first, second…? What process corresponds to each job?
3. How I will join all these jobs properly to reach my goal?
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 All these questions make sense in this case because each part
of the house to build has its own job or function.
 In the case of writing a message to communicate your feelings
using a second language, you have to decide between two
alternatives: First alternative: use the target language one
time without a real knowledge of the language, building some
sentences using a translator and deliver the message. You are
not able to make any changes, you don’t have the knowledge
and any change could affect the content that you are not sure
what you wrote.
Can you find someone to translate your message?
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 The second alternative is to learn how to customize
your message, so you have to take classes and learn
to use the language finding answers all your
questions about it.

A language uses different types of words, and

each type of word has its own function in the

sentence, like in English you need to know
the
Spanish categories of the words that are
categorized in 8 basic types or classes called "parts of
speech or the words grammatical category.” Let see
examples;
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Part of speech
Function or
“job”
Example
words
Example
sentences
VE RB / verbo
Action or state
Ser, estar, tener,
hacer, gustar, etc.
Me gusta el helado/
I like ice cream
NOUN/
Sustantivo
Thing or person
Lapiz, perro,
musica, Nicolas,
camisa, ciudad,…
Vivimos en
Londres/ We live
in London
ADJECTIVE/
adjetivo
Qualifying a noun or
pronoun
15, algúno, bueno,
grande, rojo, alegre
…
Mi perro es muy
pequeño/ My dog
is very small
ADVERB/
adverbio
Modifies a verb,
adjective or other
adverb
rápido, aquí, quizas,
antes, …
Él está bien ahora/
He is well now
PRONOUN/
pronombre
Replaces a noun
Yo, tú, él, ella..
Ella es hermosa/
She is beautiful
PREPOSITION/
preposicion
Links a noun to
another word
To, at, on, of …
Ponlo en la mesa /
Put it on the table
Part of speech
Function or
“job”
Example words
Example
sentences
Conjunction
Links grammatical
elements
equivalent
Y, pero, o, ni ..ni,
aunque. . .
Él ni estudias ni
trabajas/ He
neither study or
work
Interjection
Words use to
express mood
¡Puf!, ¡aja!, ¡oh!
¡ojo!, ¡ya! .. .
¡hum! ¡La comida
se ve deliciosa!/
mmmm! The food
looks delicious!
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¡Los amigos nos hacen sentir bien!
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To talk
•
Hablar
I talk
hablo
I’m talking
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Estoy hablando
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John
•
Juan
Animals
English
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animales
inglés
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Pretty
•
Bonito
Tall
alto
Big
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grande
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Before
•
antes
Behind
Never
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atrás
nunca
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She
•
Ella
They
This
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Ellos
éste
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with
•
con
In
en
between
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entre
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Y
•
and
pero
Entonces
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but
then
More examples of-:
¡caramba!
•
¡Chist!
¡Vaya!
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Gee!
(impatience)
Sh! silence
Finally!
Spanish Parts of Speech
Synthesis:
Interjection
Well,
¡Vaya¡
Pronoun
Marlene
Marlene
conjuction
adjective
noun
verb
Preposition
noun
adverb
and
little
Bo
walk
to
school
More frequently.
a
La
escuela
y
el pequeño
Bo
caminan
Más
frecuentemente
.
The Spanish grammar considered eight parts of the speech, in this chart we can
observe each one with a specific function in the sentence or grammatical category.
This is one of the reasons why studying grammar is important in any language,
although some people think that it is not important stop to learn grammar and they
think it will be learned by immersion with the time, open the next PowerPoint and
let s talk about a language without grammar.
Do you believe it is possible?
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