1. ESL 502 Lindsay Guenter

5. SPANISH ENGLISH *Masculine & feminine forms *Any article or adjective must agree in gender *English uses no gender in grammar except for personal pronouns *For example: -he -she -his -her -hers

6. SPANISH ENGLISH *Spanish verbs must agree with the subject *There are many different forms in every tense of a verb *For instance, eat in Spanish is comer *A few forms of eat are -como -comes -come *A few forms of ate are -comi -comiste -comio *English has 3 forms for the present of the verb to be -am -is -are *English has 2 forms of other simple present affirmative verbs -do/does -work/works *And only 1 form in the past tense -did/went *Therefore, there are not SEVERAL different forms for every tense of a verb