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Originally Posted by ElDanés
So shall one use el instead of la, when it's a masculine noun, and not a feminine noun? Yes, in the case above, you can use el when the noun it's replacing is masculine. In either case, the combination of que la or que el will translate to 'as/than that'.
Like:
Gracias por el artículo. (Thank you for the article.)
Gracias por el. (Thank you for it.) 
Gracias por la corrección. (Thank you for the correction.)
Gracias por la. (Thank you for it.) |
The last two sentences should be
gracias por él or
gracias por ella. Here, we're dealing with another part of speech - a prepositional phrase. The preposition is
por and its object is
el artículo or
la corrección. If we want to use a pronoun for the object of a preposition, it must be either
él or
ella.
Pronoun usage will be a fun adventure. It would take me a long time to explain it all at once. Let's tackle each case as we come to it.
