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The Spanish Grammar, by Miguel
Grammar
New Edition

  Pronounciation
  Spelling
  Determinant-Article
  The Nouns
  The Adjectives
  Adjective-Comparison
  Adjective-Demonstrative
  Adjective-Distributive
  Adjective-Quantitative
  Adjectives-Interrogative
  Adjective-Possessive
  Adjective-Origin
  Adjective-Numeral
  The Time
  The Date
  The Pronouns
  Direct/Indirect Pronouns
  Demonstrative Pronouns
  Relative Pronous
  Reflexive pronouns
  Possessive Pronouns
  The Adverbs
  Degree of Adverbs
  Adverbials
  Prepositions
  Conjunctions
  Interjections
  Regular Verbs
  Irregular Verbs
  Stem-Changing Verbs
  The Progressive


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The main kinds of pronouns are:

Subject: yo/I; tú, vosotros, usted, ustedes/you; él/he; ella/she; etc.
Demonstratives: esto, éste, ésta/this; ése, aquél, aquélla/that; etc.
Relatives: que, el cual/who; que, el que/that; etc.
Interrogatives: ¿qué?/what?; ¿cuál?/which?; etc.
Reflexives: yo mismo/myself; tú mismo/yourself; etc.
Possessives: mío, mía, míos, mías/mine; tuyo, suyo/yours; etc.




SUBJECT PRONOUNS

In Spanish, like English, subject pronouns are generally used only for emphasis of clarification.



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SINGULAR PLURAL 
yo nosotros(as)we
you (fam.)vosotros(as)you all (fam. pl.)
élheellosthey (masc. or mixed group)
ellasheellasthey (fem.)
ustedyou (form.)ustedesyou all (form.)


The use of is reserved for those individuals whom you call on a first name basis. Usted is most frequently used with individuals with whom you've just met, or whom you refer to as mister or misses.

In Spanish it is not necessary to use the pronoun, since the end of the verb gives us the information that we needed to know the subject:

Cuando (yo) voy a la universidad, (yo) tomo un autobús./
When I go to the University, I take a bus.

(Nosotros) Queremos jugar al fútbol./ We want to play football.

The form ustedes is not very used actually. It's used vosotros.

There is no impersonal subject pronoun "it". The pronoun "it" is expressed by the third person singular verb form without subject.

Llueve mucho en Inglaterra./ It is raining a lot in England.
Es fácil resolver eso./ It is easy to resolve that.

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