In this section, you’re asked to choose the best proposition or pronoun from the parenthesis to complete the sentence. Your first choice must be made between “to me” and “to them”.

You learned on page 88 that you can use *”a”* plus a pronoun to imply emphasis. That’s what is going on in this case. Since *gustar* is in its *yo* form (*me gusta*), we know that the pronoun following *a* must be *”mí”*. If this is confusing, review the “pronouns after prepositions” box at the top of this page.

A mí

In this section, you’re asked to choose the best proposition or pronoun from the parenthesis to complete the sentence. Your second choice must be made between “to them” and “with them”.

The sentence you’re trying to complete reads, “I really like going out ______ (with them/ at them)”. You learned earlier on this page that *con* means “with”. Going out with them makes more grammatical sense that going out at them, so fairly quickly we know what the correct answer is.

con ellos.

In this section, you’re asked to choose the best proposition or pronoun from the parenthesis to complete the sentence. Your third choice must be made between “to him” and “to me”.

This is another instance in which you will be using *”a*” + a pronoun to indicate emphasis. When using “*a*” this way, you will need to make sure that the pronoun matches the subject of the sentence. The subject of our sentence is Jorge, which we know from the previous sentence and the use of *le gusta* in this sentence.

Since the subject is Jorge (“he”), we will be following “*a*” with “*él*”.

A él

In this section, you’re asked to choose the best proposition or pronoun from the parenthesis to complete the sentence. Your fourth choice must be made between “to you” and “to her”.

The previous sentence reads, “my friend Laura is very timid”. In the sentence we’re looking at, the “*a* + pronoun” construction is being used to add emphasis to who our subject is. The use of *le gusta* tells us that our subject is still Laura. Since the pronoun following *”a*” needs to match the form of *gustar*, we will choose *a ella* instead of *a ti*.

A ella

In this section, you’re asked to choose the best proposition or pronoun from the parenthesis to complete the sentence. Your fifth choice must be made between “to them” and “to us”.

You’ll notice that *gustar* is in its *nosotros* form, *nos gusta*. Since the “*a* + pronoun” construction is being used here for emphasis and clarification, the pronoun needs to match the form of *gustar*, as you can see on page 88. Since both the writer and her friend Laura use feminine pronouns, *nosotras*, the feminine form of *nosotros*, is used.

A nosotras

In this section, you’re asked to choose the best proposition or pronoun from the parenthesis to complete the sentence. Your sixth choice must be made between “to them” and “to me”.

The preceding sentence reads, “Juan and Carlos are my friends too”. The sentence that we’re actually trying to complete uses *”les gusta”*, the “*éllos/ellas/ustedes*” form of *gustar*. This implies that Juan and Carlos (*”ellos”*) are still the subject of this sentence. *A mí* doesn’t make sense considering the subject of the sentence is *ellos*.

A ellos

In this section, you’re asked to choose the best proposition or pronoun from the parenthesis to complete the sentence. Your seventh and final choice must be made between “to us” and “to you”.

This sentence reads, “and (to you/to us), what do you like to do?”. The only reason we know the subject is because *gustar* is in the *tú* form, *te gusta*. Since the pronoun following *”a*” has to match the form of *gustar*, we will choose *”a ti”*.

A ti