Study Guide to Quiz 2

Spa 1102 – F10

 

Review Items:

1.      Direct Object Pronouns: What are “transitive verbs” and how do they limit when you can use a “direct object pronoun”? When and why do we use “direct object pronouns”? What are the “direct object pronouns” in Spanish and where do we place them? Which questions can we use so as not to mistake which object in a sentence is the direct object?

2.      Family Vocabulary: Are you able to name all of the family relationships we have studied, including the in-laws?

New Items:

1.      Go verbs: How many GO verbs (1, 2) have we studied? Can you conjugate these verbs and use them in context?

2.      Invitation Dialogues: Have you studied the new vocabulary related to “pastimes” and “invitations”? Can you write a dialogue in which you invite your friend/s to participate in a leisure activity? Are there more polite ways of expressing “querer” in Spanish? Do you know how to courteously reject an invitation?

3.      Demonstratives: Did you review the use of demonstrative adjectives? What is their relationship to the indicators of space (aquí, ahí, allá)? Did you remember that demonstratives can function as adjectives and therefore must agree in number and gender with the noun they describe? What is the difference between “ese” and “eso”? How can a demonstrative adjective be turned into a demonstrative pronoun? Where do you place the demonstrative pronoun's accent?

4.      “Saber” versus “conocer”: Although "saber" and "conocer" mean the same in English, they are used in different situations in Spanish. What criteria do we use to make this distinction (1)? Do these verbs have any irregular forms?

5.      *Reflexive verbs: What is a reflexive verb? What are the reflexive pronouns? How many common day routines are expressed with a reflexive verb? How many reflexive verbs are stem-changing? How do you create a reciprocally reflexive verb from a regular verb?

 

*Note: You will responsible for identifying the reflexive pronouns (me, te, se, etc.) and for recognizing the meaning of each new reflexive verb (study them as vocabulary).  However, you will not be tested on their conjugation, rather the conjugation of previously learned verbs (for example, llamarse, hablarse, mirarse, etc.)