Spanish Grammar

The present progressive in Spanish is a very important grammatical structure, just like its English counterpart. In this lesson, we will learn the basic rules to talk about actions in progress through several examples of sentences, interesting illustrations and the exercises in several interactive quizzes. Let’s start… The basic structure for the present progressive in […]

In everyday interactions, it is very common to find ourselves talking about past events in Spanish, things that happened recently or a long time ago. In this lesson, we will learn the basic rules to conjugate both regular and irregular verbs in the preterit tense in Spanish properly. As usual, you will find simple explanations,

When we speak Spanish, it is truly important to use the right gender of nouns, even more than what you might expect. In this lesson, we will explain how grammatical gender changes the meaning of some Spanish words. As we will soon see, we must use them carefully, as their meaning will change radically under

¡Hola! Welcome to a new lesson. In this lesson, we will focus on the basic concepts to form or make basic sentences in Spanish. We will study different parts of speech, provide interesting examples and also give you the chance to practice forming sentences with several interactive grammar quizzes on this very important topic. Let’s

Hola and welcome to a new grammar lesson. This time, we will learn the rules to use direct object pronouns in Spanish, a special type of pronouns used to refer to things and people. They are essential in daily conversations, as they help to simplify speech and let other people know who or what we

Spanish demonstrative adjectives and demonstrative pronouns, “los demostrativos”, are words like ESE, ESTE, ESE and others which correspond to THIS, THAT and so on in English. In this lesson, we will cover some similarities in the way we use demonstratives in both languages, and some major differences you should know about. Let’s begin… What are

As we have seen in previous lessons, the verb to be in Spanish has two forms: SER and ESTAR. Both of them are irregular verbs. In this lesson, we will learn to conjugate SER for all personal pronouns, and more importantly, how to make sentences using SER in Spanish to talk about different situations in

In the previous lesson, we explained the rules for adjective placement and talked about the rules to place these words, either before or after nouns. In this lesson, we will learn about another important feature called “concordancia del adjetivo y el sustantivo”, that is Spanish noun-adjective agreement. Do not worry, it will be easier than it sounds,

SER and ESTAR are the two forms of the verb to be in Spanish. We covered the verb SER in another lesson. Both SER and ESTAR are extremely important and useful irregular verbs to master in the language. In this lesson, we will learn to conjugate this verb and how to make sentences using ESTAR through

What are Spanish prepositional pronouns? They are a very special type of pronouns that are placed after prepositions, just like the pronoun MI in the phrase “A MI”. These pronouns are very useful and common in everyday conversations to say simple stuff like “Esto es para ti” (this is for you) and to make more intermediate sentences such