Expresate!: Spanish 1
Expresate!: Spanish 1
1st Edition
Rinehart, Winston and Holt
ISBN: 9780030452048
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Exercise 1
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Here we are given a paragraph of text with six adjectives missing. You are two choose the most logical of the two options and write it in its correct form in the blank. The first sentence reads “The class is very interesting and the teacher is _________ (friendly, unfriendly).
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Since we know from the description of problem 12 that the writer only has good things to say about her class, it’s clear that in this case we will use “friendly”.
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The subject of this phrase is *la profesora*, or said another way, *ella*. Since this is a feminine subject, we will need to make sure to use the feminine form of “friendly”.
Result
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simpática
Exercise 2
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Here we are given a paragraph of text with six adjectives missing. You are two choose the most logical of the two options and write it in its correct form in the blank. The second sentence reads:
“The students are _______ (lazy, hard-working)”.
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Of the two options, the positive one is obviously “hard-working”. Our subject is *los estudiantes*, which is plural. This means we have to remember to use the masculine plural form of “hardworking”. Remember that when adjectives end in consonants, to make them plural we add -es to the end. This gives us “trabajadores”.
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trabajadores
Exercise 3
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Here we are given a paragraph of text with six adjectives missing. You are two choose the most logical of the two options and write it in its correct form in the blank. The first part of the third sentence reads “My friends Marta and Gabi are very ______ (silly, intellectual)…”
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The most logical choice here is “intellectual”, since the writer is describing her favorite class. Since our subject here is “Marta and Gabi” (two people), we will use the plural form of “intellectual”, which is formed by adding “-es” to the end of the word.
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intelectuales
Exercise 4
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Here we are given a paragraph of text with six adjectives missing. You are two choose the most logical of the two options and write it in its correct form in the blank. The second half of the third sentence reads “…and my friend Ricardo is very _______(witty, boring).
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A witty classmate is definitely a good classmate (preferable to a boring one at least), so I would choose “witty” as being the positive adjective here. And we don’t even have to change the adjective from what’s given to us, since it is given to us in the masculine singular form.
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gracioso
Exercise 5
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Here we are given a paragraph of text with six adjectives missing. You are two choose the most logical of the two options and write it in its correct form in the blank. The section containing the next blank reads “And me? I am ________ (foolish, intelligent)…”
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I would highly doubt the writer would describe themselves as foolish, so the most logical answer here is “intelligent”. Once again, we don’t have to change the adjective at all from how it is given to us, since it is given to us in the singular form and our subject is *yo*.
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inteligente
Exercise 6
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Here we are given a paragraph of text with six adjectives missing. You are two choose the most logical of the two options and write it in its correct form in the blank. The section containing the final blank reads “I am intelligent and ________ (active, lazy)”.
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If the writer really loves this class, they would certainly be active and participating, not lazy. We were told in the description that the writer is female, so when she’s writing in *yo* form, the adjectives must be feminine. The feminine form of active is *activa*.
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activa
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