Answer:
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 <u>what are they made for</u>?
<h2>CONJUNCTIONS</h2>
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:
<h3>Que, si, como, porque, que, mientras, y, o, bien, o sea, es decir, cuando, pero, con tal de que, mas… and etc. </h3>
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).
<h2>ANSWERS</h2>
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