Conjugating Verbs Part II Substituting Subject Pronouns

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Conjugating Verbs Part IISubstituting Subject
Pronouns

• After this, you should be able to
• identify all subjects by number and person

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Lets Review the Subject Pronouns
Do you know them in English?
Now try the Spanish! First personsingular AND
plurals, please.

• Yo Nosotros, Nosotras
• Tú Vosotros, Vosotras
• Él Ellos
• Ella Ellas
• Usted Ustedes

I
We
Second personsingular AND plural, please.
You (familiar)
Yall (familiar)
3rd person singular AND plural all 6 pronouns!
He
They
She
They
You (formal)
Yall (formal)
In English, the subject pronoun it would go
here. There is no it as a subject in Spanish.
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The Subject PronounsThe T Chart shows
and .
person
number
Singular Plural
1st Person 2nd Person 3rd Person
Tú You Vosotros Yall
(familiar) Vosotras (familiar)
Él He Ellos
They Ella She Ellas
They Usted You Ustedes
Yall (formal)
(formal)
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So What?

• You need to know this because
• Lets build a sentence!
• SUBJECTS DO YOUR VERB.

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Subject Please?
Now the garbage at the end (AKA the rest of
the predicate)
Now your verb
Yo
tengo
amigos.
Subject
verb
. . . . . . .
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What do subjects do?
SUBJECTS DO YOUR VERB.
Later, you will learn that when you change your
subject you change your verb.
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Later, you will learn that when you change your
subject you change your verb.
Yo
tengo
amigos.
Él
tiene
Subject Changed!
Verb Changes...
Subject
verb
. . . . . . .
When you understand your subjects, you will be
able to change your verbs correctly!
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Now what?
What happens if your subject is not a pronoun on
your chart ??????
Singular Plural
1st Person 2nd Person 3rd Person
Tú You Vosotros Yall
(familiar) Vosotras (familiar)
Él He Ellos
They Ella She Ellas
They Usted You Ustedes
Yall (formal)
(formal)
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Pronouns are Just Subs!

• Pick a verb, any verb.
• walk ?
• OK!

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Any subject can grammatically do that verb
(maybe not physically)

• I walk
• yall walk
• Carlos walks
• Carlos and Susana walk
• The books walk
• (grammatically ok
• physically impossible)

Now the Spanish
Yo _________
Ustedes_____
OOPS! These arent on the chart!
Lets just make them fit!
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walks
Carlos
Carlos is not a subject on the
chart but we can make him fit!
Singular Plural
Yo I Nosotros We
Nosotras
1st Person 2nd Person 3rd Person
Tú You Vosotros Yall
(familiar) Vosotras (familiar)
Carlos Él
He
Ellos
They Ella She Ellas
They Usted You Ustedes
Yall (formal)
(formal)
Él
Carlos, Él and He Every one of them is a 3rd
person singular subject.
Carlos, Él and He You can use the same verb for
Carlos that you use for Él
Carlos, Él and He all refer to the same person.
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• Lets try two more like our Carlos example!
• María?

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What about the other examples?
Carlos y Susana _________
Carlos and Susana walk
Carlos y Susana
Singular or Plural ?
Which person?
Plural
Singular
Nosotros We Nosotras
Yo I
1st Person
??
No Yo (I) in the group!
??
Tú You
(familiar)
Vosotros Yall Vosotras (familiar)
2nd Person
No tú, (you) in the group!
Yikes! Carlos is a boy!!! Cant be Feminine
Ellos They Ellas
They Ustedes Yall
(formal)
3rd Person
Él He Ella
She Usted You (formal)
Ellos They Ustedes
Yall (formal)
Ellos They
Which one?
No usted (you) in the group
??
??
??
Sí!
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Now try this one
Which number and person would it be?
Los libros?
Singular?
Plural?
1st Person?
2nd Person?
3rd Person?
Los libros is a plural, 3rd person subject In
fact, it can be replaced by the pronoun ellos,
or they.
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Here are more subjectswhich number, which person
are they?
Click the pronoun which would replace these
subjects.
Tomás y yo ?
La profesora ?
Las profesoras?
Olé!
Jorge y usted?
María y tú?
Ramón y Luís ?
Plural
Singular
Nosotros We Nosotras
Yo I
1st Person
Vosotros Yall Vosotras (familiar)
Tú You
(familiar)
2nd Person
Ellos They Ellas
They Ustedes Yall
(formal)
Él He Ella
She Usted You
(formal)
3rd Person
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The tricky ones
Click for each question and answer!

• La familia.
• is 3rd person singular. Why?
• Its not 1st person. No yo in the subject.
• Its not 2nd person. No tú in the subject.
• Its not plural. La is used for singular
  nouns!
• María y tú y yo
• is 1st person plural. Why?
• Its not 3rd person. Tú and Yo are in it.
• Its not 2nd person. With yo in it, its going
  to mean we

is the same as saying It
is the same as saying We
Plural
Singular
Nosotros We Nosotras
Yo I
1st Person
Vosotros Yall Vosotras
(familiar)
Tú You
(familiar)
2nd Person
Ellos They Ellas
They Ustedes Yall
(formal)
Él He Ella
She Usted You
(formal)
3rd Person