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Old September 01, 2014, 01:07 PM
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Need help conjugating

I have been working on this assignment for 30 minutes and can't figure out 3 parts:

Ella nos _______ (enseñar) con juegos y dibujos pero no usa mucho español.

and the other two parts are:

Todos usan español para comunicarse. Por las tardes hacemos la tarea juntos.
También ______ (jugar) y él me _______ (enseñar) un poco de español.

I only have one attempt left on this hw assignment. I know the verbs should be conjugated in the present form but I can't figure out what they should be. I tried ensueña for the first, juegan for the next and ensueña for the last but those are wrong.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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Old September 01, 2014, 02:56 PM
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The difficulty, besides not catching that 'enseñar' is a regular verb ('e' doesn't change to 'ue'), lies in figuring out which person to use. A conjugated verb has both a tense and a person. The tense, as you already know, is the present.
The person will match the subject.

For instance, in the first sentence 'ella' is the subject. 'She' is a third-person singular form in English and in Spanish. So, the correct verb ending for the third-person singular must be used.
In the sentence "Por las tardes hacemos la tarea juntos," the verb's ending is 'emos'. That means the verb is conjugated in the first-person plural form. That means that the subject is 'nosotros' ('we'), and it carries over into the last sentence. So, the verb 'jugar' needs to be conjugated into the first-person plural form of the present tense ('we play') in the first blank. You don't need to write the subject 'nosotros', because that is conveyed by the verb ending.
The second half of the last sentence has a new subject - él. 'He' is the third-person singular form in both English and Spanish. Therefore, you simply conjugate 'enseñar' using the third-person singular verb ending.
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Old September 01, 2014, 06:05 PM
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Those were all correct! Thank you so much!
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