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Can you help me with Spanish direct and indirect object pronouns?
My son is really confused with direct and indirect object pronouns and I am pretty rusty on my Spanish. Can someone answer these questions so as I can jog my memory?
Choose the appropriate set of direct and indirect object pronouns if you replace the direct and indirect objects with pronouns: 1. Los hombres te prestan (lend) diez dolares a ti. a. se lo b. te lo c. se las d. te los 2. Mama les leyo un cuento a sus ninos antes de acostarlos? a. les lo b. se los c. se lo d. les los 3. La profesora ensena la leccion a sus estudiantes. a. se la b. se lo c. se los d. se las 4. Mi madre me dio un collar para mi cumpleanos. a. se lo b. me lo c. te la d. se les 5. La chica pago el dependiente por sus compras a. la/los b. se los c. se las d. se la |
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We generally prefer to correct people's attempts at their own work rather than just doing it. A. Quoting something I wrote recently in another post, and adding a little more data. If there are two or three object pronouns accompanying the verb, the relative order of the pronouns is fixed: 1. 'se' (third person reflexive/pronominal object, or substitute for third-person indirect object = le or les when a third-person direct object is necessary) 2. 'te' or 'os' (second person direct, indirect, or reflexive/promominal object) 3. 'me' or 'nos' (first person direct, indirect, or reflexive/pronominal object) 4. 'le', 'les', 'lo', 'la', 'los' or 'las' (third-person indirect object [only le or les], and third-person direct object [only lo, la, los or las]) Any one pronoun may appear only once in each pronoun group. For each position, at most 1 pronoun from the choices for that position may appear. B. Here are some hints to guide you. If this isn't enough for you or your son, let us know. Also, I have corrected punctuation and accents/tildes. The formatting tools above the edit window for posts and replies has a drop-down list labeled "Accents" that you can use to type the special characters in your posts. Quote:
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Thanks for the help. I think I got it now
Are these answers correct? 1. b 2. d 3. c 4. b 5. b |
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You also may be having some trouble correctly identifying what the direct object is and what the 'indirect' object is. This is not surprising at all: the grammar of 'indirect' objects in Spanish and the grammar of indirect objects in English has significant differences that cause trouble for most of us native speakers of English when we learn Spanish as a second/foreign language. Do you want to try again to choose the correct answers for 1-3 and 5? |
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1. d
2. a 3. b 5. d |
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1. Yes, 'los' (referring to 'los dólares') is the correct direct object pronoun, and the indirect object 'te' was already provided. So, d) te los, is th right answer.
2. You're almost there! The Spanish don't like the cacophony of two pronouns in a row that start with the letter 'l', so they change the indirect object pronoun (the first object pronoun) to 'se'. 3. The direct object isn't masculine, so 'lo' is incorrect. The indirect object 'se' is correct, because the right direct object begins with the letter 'l'. 5. The direct object is plural. You're very close! |
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