Spa 2225

Guide to Exam 1

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1. What are the rules for dividing a word into syllables? How do you find the naturally accented syllable of a word? (Review)
2. Are you able to describe the grammatical components and structure of a sentence in Spanish?
3. Can you distinguish between simple, compound, and complex sentences?
4. Can you diagram sentences? Are you able to recognize the different phrase structures of a sentence (for example, adjective clauses, adverbial clauses, noun clauses, and prepositional phrases)?
5. Have you been drilling the future, conditional, imperfect, and preterit verb conjugations?
6. Do you know how to use the present and future tenses in cultural context?
7. Can you to spell any number between 1 and a billion?
8. What special rules apply to numbers when we use them as adjectives?
9. When do you use the conditional tense?
10. Do you know when to use the preterit versus the imperfect?
11. What special rules and relationships have you learned about adjectives and nouns as they are used in context in Spanish? In particular, how important is agreement in Spanish and how does it work?
12. Can yon create a noun from a verb? Can you create an adjective from a verb? Where do you place adjectives and why? Have you studied all the common adjective suffixes used to indicate nationality?
13. Could you answer general questions about Kamchatka? Could you make a reflective statement about the movie?