7 key differences between English and Spanish grammar
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2025 5:22 am
Even though English grammar is not the most difficult for a Spanish student (German is more complex) and we have been studying it since school, there are certain aspects of English grammar that are very different from ours. In this post we will review the seven main differences between English and Spanish grammar.
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Nouns in English have no gender.
This difference is one of the reasons why we say that English senegal phone number list is easy. It doesn't matter if you're talking about a dog or an apple, in English we'll say the/a dog or the/an apple , without thinking too much. It's very complicated to learn gender in another language, but in English we won't have that problem. Yayyyy!
The only thing we need to be careful about is when we substitute a personal pronoun for a noun. Keep in mind that he/she are only used for people and rarely for animals. Everything else is it , don't let your mother tongue betray you !
Have you seen my new car? It is an off-roader!
Please, put the wine in the fridge, It is down the kitchen to the right.
Adjectives go before the noun
It is not a difference that makes the language very difficult, except when we have to place several adjectives. Do you know how they should be placed? The one that describes a more intrinsic characteristic of the noun is the closest one, the one that expresses a more general opinion, the most distant. Although luckily, we will rarely have so many adjectives together, here is an example with all the possible types:
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Nouns in English have no gender.
This difference is one of the reasons why we say that English senegal phone number list is easy. It doesn't matter if you're talking about a dog or an apple, in English we'll say the/a dog or the/an apple , without thinking too much. It's very complicated to learn gender in another language, but in English we won't have that problem. Yayyyy!
The only thing we need to be careful about is when we substitute a personal pronoun for a noun. Keep in mind that he/she are only used for people and rarely for animals. Everything else is it , don't let your mother tongue betray you !
Have you seen my new car? It is an off-roader!
Please, put the wine in the fridge, It is down the kitchen to the right.
Adjectives go before the noun
It is not a difference that makes the language very difficult, except when we have to place several adjectives. Do you know how they should be placed? The one that describes a more intrinsic characteristic of the noun is the closest one, the one that expresses a more general opinion, the most distant. Although luckily, we will rarely have so many adjectives together, here is an example with all the possible types: