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MFL ©CAS 2002 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 ? MFL 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. ©CAS 2002 Subjects are often proper names, objects, animals, …… Just as often, they are pronouns. Pronouns are words which stand in place of nouns. MFL ©CAS 2002 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. MFL He Juan doesn’t like paella. It The dog loves paella. ©CAS 2002 MFL ©CAS 2002 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 MFL ©CAS 2002 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. MFL ©CAS 2002 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. MFL ©CAS 2002 FIN MFL ©CAS 2002