Spa 2225

Guide to Exam 2

  1. What are the rules for dividing a word into syllables? How do you find the naturally accented syllable of a word? (Review)
  2. Have you been drilling all of your verb conjugations?  In particular, how about the perfect tenses?  
  3. Do you know when to use the preterit versus the imperfect?
  4. What are direct object pronouns?   How do they differ from indirect object pronouns and subject pronouns?  
  5. What kind of verb do you need in a sentence in order to use a direct or indirect object pronoun?  What questions to you use to distinguish between a direct object and an indirect object?
  6. How do you construct a sentence with a double object pronoun?  How do compound verbs affect pronoun placement?  Do we need to do anything special with commands and object pronouns?
  7. What is the passive voice?  How many different forms exist in Spanish?  When do you use each of them?  Why?  What do you need to do to create a passive sentence from an active sentence for each form?  What happens to these sentences if the active verb is in the preterit versus imperfect?  Can you create passive sentences in all the verb tenses?
  8. What is the difference between a nominal, adjectival, and adverbial phrase?
  9. How do you form the present and past subjunctive tenses?
  10. What conditions in the independent clause will force the nominal clause to be conjugated in the subjunctive tense?
  11. Which verbs will usually be found in the independent clause that precedes a nominal subjunctive clause?
  12. What conditions in the independent clause will force the adjectival clause to be conjugated in the subjunctive tense?
  13. Which words are important to identify in the independent clause that precedes an adjectival subjunctive clause?
  14. How many adverbial subordinate conjunctions have we learned?
  15. What conditions in the independent clause will force the adverbial clause to be conjugated in the subjunctive tense?
  16. How does the present subjunctive differ from the past subjunctive in terms of the perception of time sequence and verb conjugation in the second clause?