Errores comunes en la composición

AGREEMENT

 

Any adjective is modifying something, right? 

For example you want to describe the food with adjectives like wonderful, terrible...etc. 

In Spanish that adjective that is describing a particular noun must agree in gender (fem./ masc.) and number (plu./singular)

 

EXAMPLE

noun: flanes

gender: masculine

number: plural

Any word that says something about "flanes" needs to be plural and masculine:

 

artículo: los

adjetivo demostrativo: estos, esos, aquellos

artículo indefinido: unos

adjectivo: deliciosos, bonitos, ricos, aromáticos, muchos, fabulosos

 

most common agreement mistake on the compositions

• el restaurante
• la camarera
• la carne

NOTE (seeing in the compositions)

 

When you mention food you eat, you do not have to put the articles. For example:

 

Yo comí las papas fritas, la carne, el pescado

when the verb "ir" is used, the preposition "A" is always needed

• ellos fueron de compras al mercado
• yo voy a comer langosta
• nosotros fuimos a la playa y al cine

 

al is for a + el 

when going in direction to a place "A" is always used. no "en"

• Yo comí en un restaurante. Fui a un restaurante
• Yo estudio en una universidad. Voy a Miracosta
• Nosotros vivimos en San Diego. Vamos a Big Bear de vacaciones

CHECK THE TENSe

 

WHEN YOU HAVE A SENTENCE IN THE PAST MAKE SURE YOU dO NOT MIX TENSES. CONTINUE IN THE PAST OR MAKE ANOTHER SENTENCE IN PRESENT.

and last not least...

Bring your blue/green book when you have the compositions. You should use my feedback from the previous corrections when you are writing the new one.

Do not rush. Take your time. A ten minutes composition is never a good one!