Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Subject and predicate (to be completed)

  1. In general, Spanish follows the SVO pattern in English grammar.
  2. A few exceptions to the pattern: (a) An "inferrable" subject can be dropped, i.e. a subject that is originally a pronoun (b) A direct or an indirect object as a pronoun: comes after the subject but preceding the verb (c) Both direct and indirect objects as pronouns.
  3. In [2a]: VOiOd (where Oi refers to an indirect object and Od refers to a direct object.)
  4. In [2b]: {Sp}OpVOd or {Sp}OpV{Oi} (where {Sp} refers to a subject drop, which is optional; Op refers to an object, direct or indirect, as a pronoun; an indirect object is not compulsory, referred to as {Oi})
  5. In [2c]: to be completed.
  6. See ejercicios for [2b, 4], changing objects to pronoun, below:
  • Notation: Verb/predicator, indirect object, direct object, adverb/adjunct
  • Q1. Conozco a tu hermano. 我認識你的兄弟。
  • A1. Lo Conozco.
  • Q2. Ayer vi una pelicula. 我昨天看了一套電影。
  • A2. {Ayer} La vi. / La vi {Ayer}.
  • Q3. ¿Vendes tu casa? Si, vendo mi casa / No, no vendo mi casa.
  • A3. ¿Vendes tu casa? Si, la vendo. / No, no la vendo.
  • Q4

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