Grammatical Terms

GRAMMATICAL TERMS
Before you start to learn Spanish grammar you ,need to familiarise with some grammatical terms.
Look at this sentence:
The boy reads an interesting book at home.
He reads aninteresting book at home.
Each word has a grammatical term :
The – definitive article
boy - noun (it is the subject of the sentence)
reads – verb
a - preposition
interesting - adjective
book- noun (it is a direct object in the sentence)
at - preposition
home – noun.
He - pronoum

Articles always go in front of the noun and agrees with it in gender and number. Grammatical namegiven to the word “THE”.
In many circumstances where the definite article is necessary in Spanish , it is omitted in English.
Las mujeres están en el partido – Women are present in the party.
UsingSpanish articles will take practise , since quite a few situations require their use in Spanish but not in English.

Nouns designate people, places, actions, things, events and concrete or abstractideas, and so on. Example: Tom, boy, London, chair, cat...
In Spanish nouns are either feminine or masculine, grammatically speaking. Sometimes this classification will not make sense to theEnglish-speaking learner of Spanish.

A verb is a word that describes an action ( example: eats, slept, is going).

An adjetive can have two functions:
It can complement the noun it follows ,completing its meaning with various characteristics and qualities.
Example: Don't you want that big , inexpensive bag?
The can also limit or determine a noun.
Example: My watch is not working. / This rosehas a strong fragance.
Adjectives must agree in gender and number with the noun. Therefore djetives are either feminine or masculine, singular or plural, acording to the noun they modify.

APreposition is a connector. It links a noun, a pronoun, or a phrase to other words in a phrase or sentence.
Example: They work for me. / They are travelling through Spain.
Spanish prepositions can...