This section asks you to read an e-mail from Rocío Sotomayor, and then answer various questions about it. The first question reads “where is Rocío from?”

This question is one we learned on the previous page when talking about question words and accents. You’ll see that the third sentence of the email gives the pertinent information. *De* followed by a place means “is/am from” said place.

To phrase this as answer, we need to include a form of *ser*, the word *de*, and then “Puerto Rico”. Technically, we don’t need to include a subject or subject pronoun since it has already been established who we are talking about.

Es de Puerto Rico.

This section asks you to read an e-mail from Rocío Sotomayor, and then answer various questions about it. The second question reads “How old is she?”

*Cuántos* is a Spanish question word that means “how many”, and on page 47 we learned both this question and answer. If we look in the email for buzzwords like “años”, we can see the fourth sentence contains the pertinent information.

In order to phrase the information as a sentence, we will need *tiene* followed by her age (15), followed by *años*. Once again, we can choose to omit the subject and subject pronoun from the answer if we would like.

Tiene quince años.

This section asks you to read an e-mail from Rocío Sotomayor, and then answer various questions about it. The third question reads “is she blonde or dark-haired?”

In the fifth sentence of the email we can see that Rocío is describing herself using adjectives that we learned earlier in this chapter. She describes herself as “tall, dark-haired and very extroverted”. Therefore, the answer is *morena*.

This one is fairly easy to phrase as the response to a question, since the question is one that asks you to choose between two options. That means that we simply need *es* and the correct answer (in this case, *morena*). You could choose to add the subject pronoun *ella* first, but as before, it is not necessary to reiterate the subject.

Es morena.

This section asks you to read an e-mail from Rocío Sotomayor, and then answer various questions about it. The fourth question reads “what is Rocío like?”

Just like the last question, we’ll go to the fifth sentence of the email to find the pertinent information. In that sentence, Rocío describes herself as “tall, dark-haired and very extroverted”. Now we simply need to rewrite the sentence as a response to the question.

In order to rephrase this as the response to the question we’ve been asked, we simply need to change the form of *ser* that begins the sentence. Instead of it beginning with “I am…” we need it to begin with “She is…”. And since we don’t need to include a subject pronoun, the sentence will simply begin with *Es*.

Es alta, morena y muy extrovertida.

This section asks you to read an e-mail from Rocío Sotomayor, and then answer various questions about it. The fifth question reads “where is Carolina from?”

In the second half of the email, Rocío begins to describe her best friend, Carolina. Using the subject pronoun *ella*, Rocío writes that she is from Nicaragua. Now we need to write this information as a complete sentence.

Since in the email, Rocio is writing about a third person, saying “SHE is from Nicaragua”, we don’t actually have to change the sentence as she has it written, since we are also trying to say “SHE is from Nicaragua”. The one change you could make is, of course, choosing to drop the subject pronoun for the sake of convenience.

Es de Nicaragua.

This section asks you to read an e-mail from Rocío Sotomayor, and then answer various questions about it. The final question reads “what is she like?”.

Since this question is immediately following a question asked about Carolina (and this question has already been asked about Rocío), we know this question is asking about Carolina even though we are only given the pronoun *ella*. In the penultimate sentence, we see Rocío describes Carolina as “serious and pretty timid”. Once again, we don’t have to change this sentence from how it’s already written in the email to answer the question.

Es seria y bastante tímida.