Academic Vocabulary, Pt. 1
A word or words that describe the relationship, most often in time or space between two other words.
PREPOSITIONS
Comparisons used to indicate a lesser, equal or greater degree of something–an adjective, an adverb or a noun.
COMPARISONS OF EQUALITY AND INEQUALITY
Indirect and direct object pronouns replace nouns that have already been referenced and are used together within the same sentence.
DOUBLE OBJECT PRONOUNS
The past tense in Spanish which is used to express actions or states completed in the past.
PRETERITE TENSE
Special pronouns that go with reflexive verbs.
REFLEXIVE PRONOUNS
These are used to express the highest or lowest degree of a quality.
SUPERLATIVES
Words that demonstrate or point out nouns and they precede the nouns they modify.
DEMOSTRATIVE ADJECTIVES AND PRONOUNS
It is used to indicate that the subject does something to or for himself or herself, it “reflects” the action of the verb back to the subject.
REFLEXIVE VERBS
Words that refer to people and things that are not specific, for example, someone or something, and they have corresponding negative words that are opposites.
INDEFINITE AND NEGATIVE WORDS
Is a noun or a pronoun that answers to the question “to who” or “for whom” an action is done.
INDIRECT OBJECT