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What is the subject of a verb ?
The person or thing that performs the verb
in a sentence is called the subject.
For example:
Ana speaks Spanish. Who
Ana is
speaks
the subject.
Spanish ?
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The book is on the table. What
The book
is onisthe
the
table ?
subject.
Have a go at this one:
The sun shone brightly in the sky.
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Subjects are often proper names,
objects, animals, ……
Just as often, they are pronouns.
Pronouns are words which
stand in place of nouns.
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When these pronouns
replace the noun which is
the subject of the
sentence, they are called
subject pronouns.
Which pronouns would you
use to replace these nouns ?
e.g. Paul likes swimming.
He
Paul swims every day.
We
Ana and I speak Spanish.
They
Ana and Juan speak English.
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He
Juan doesn’t like paella.
It
The dog loves paella.
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To make the verbs
refer to specific
people,
we need
to
Infinitives
tell
us
Each verb in each
know
a set
the
action
of
the
tense has 6 parts
sequence
of
verb without
subject
pronouns.
reference
to any
person or time.
English
Spanish
I
1st person
you (sg)
2nd person
he
she
singular
3rd person
it
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The person
yo
speaking
The person
tú
spoken to
él
ella
The person
spoken about
él / ella
we
1st person
you (pl)
2nd person
they
3rd person
nosotros/
nosotras
plural
vosotros/
vosotras
ellos/
ellas
Here’s an example:
In Spanish, we very rarely
useThink
Subject
Pronouns,
about
it……
Hablaré
because all six parts of the
Hablarás
verb Iare
so different. We
speak
Hablará
don’t You
needspeak
the pronouns to
Hablaremos
In English,
we havepronouns
to use the
It’s
the
subject
see
that
list ofof
tell You’ll
us
who
the
subject
He/she/it
speaks
Hablaréis
subject
pronouns
all the
time.
thatthe
make
it clear
who
subject
pronouns
a
lot
verb
is.
We Hablarán
speak
subject
of the verb is.
in the
the
later
presentations
You speak
If we didn’t
use them, we wouldn’t
on They
the different
tenses.
speak
know who was doing the verb.
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With one exception, all
the forms are identical.
Now that you know
all Have
aboutaverbs
go atand
the
subject
pronouns,
you
exercises
to test
can look
at the
your
presentations
about
understanding.
the different tenses.
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