1. ¿Puedes llamar a Ramón Y a Inés, por favor?
2. Ese pintor tiene mucho talento E imaginación
3. Ana esquía bien, PERO no sabe nadar
4. No solo llegaron tarde, SINO QUE me insultaron
5. Luis quiere un deportivo blanco O rojo
6. La cesta pesa bastante, A PESAR DE QUE no tiene naranjas
7. Hoy vamos al teatro PORQUE Sara compró los boletos
Explanation:
By answering this exercise we’ll be practising one specific part of speech: CONJUNCTIONS, but what are they made for?
CONJUNCTIONS
They are words that help the speaker to join two words or ideas by linking them into the sentence or even the discourse. There are a lot of conjunctions in Spanish, but these are the most common:
Que, si, como, porque, que, mientras, y, o, bien, o sea, es decir, cuando, pero, con tal de que, mas… and etc.
CONJUNCTIONS also codify the kind of syntactical relation that exist between two sentence’s components, so we can say that they have a function; conjunctions can indicate cause, time, a condition, a consequence, a purpose and so on. It is important to always remember that we need to link our ideas in order to produce efficient sentences, so here’s where conjunctions acquire importance.
EXAMPLE:
It is not the same to say: Yo como pizza, soda (I eat pizza, soda) and: Yo como pizza Y soda (I eat pizza AND soda); as we can see, the conjunction Y (and) allows us to link two different objects.
Now, we have the answers; notice how the conjunctions appear into the sentences (they’re marked with capital and bold letters).
ANSWERS
1. ¿Puedes llamar a Ramón Y a Inés, por favor?
2. Ese pintor tiene mucho talento E imaginación
GRAMMAR TIP: When the word that follows the conjunction Y starts with I, we need to use E to avoid cacophony
3. Ana esquía bien, PERO no sabe nadar
4. No solo llegaron tarde, SINO QUE me insultaron
5. Luis quiere un deportivo blanco O rojo
6. La cesta pesa bastante, A PESAR DE QUE no tiene naranjas
7. Hoy vamos al teatro PORQUE Sara compró los boletos
