This document is a Spanish grammar book that provides explanations and conjugations of various grammatical concepts in Spanish including: the preterit tense, modal verbs, adverbs, the progressive and future tenses, the conditional tense, superlatives, formal commands, and prepositions and demonstrative adjectives. It includes tables and examples to illustrate how to conjugate different verb types in various tenses and forms.

1. Grammar Book
Celestino Orr

2. Table of Contents
• Imperfect
• Preterite
• Modal
• Adverbios
• Progressive
• Futuro
• Conditional
• Superlative
• Formal Commands
• Prepositions
• demonstrative

3. Preterit
• ar: er:
– ei
– asteiste
–O io
– Amos imos
– Aronieron

4. Car Gar Zar
• Car + yo = que
• Gar + yo = gue
• Zar + yo = ce
• If not in yo form, normal preterit conjugation

5. Spock
• Ir/ser = fui, fuiste, fue, fuimos, fueron
• Dar/ver = i, iste, e, imos, ieron
• Hacer = hice, hiciste, hizo, hicimos, hicieron

6. Cucaracha verbs
• Andar – anduv
• Estar – estuv
Yo – e
• Poder – pus Tu – iste
• Querer – quis El – o
Nosotros – imos
• Venir – vin Ellos – ieron
• Dicir – dig
• Trear – traj
• Conducir – conduj
• Producir – produc
• Traducir – traduj

7. Snake ysnakey
• Stem changers in third person
• snake: (dormir)
– Dormi
– Dormiste
– Durmio
– Dormimos
– Durmieron
• Snakey (leer)
– Lei
– Leiste
– Leyo
– Limos
– Leyeron

8. Modal verbs
• Conjugate and pair the modal verbs with an
infinitive to get a new meeting
– Ir + a + infinitive = going to do ____
– Tenerque + infinitive = to have to do _____
– Poder + infinitive = are able to do ______
– Soler + infinitive = to be accustomed to
– Necessitar + infinitive = need to ______
– Querer + infinitive = want to _____

9. Adverbios
• Add mente to make word adverb.
– Claramente
– Constantemente
– Dificilmente
– Alegremente
• Irregulars
– Mucho, muy, mal, bastante, bien, ya, tan,
demasiado, nunca, peor, poco, siempre

10. Progressive
• Estar + infinitive (ando, iendo, yendo)
• Ando – ar
• Yendo – er/ir
• Iendo – ir(verb)

11. Futuro
• Infinitive (full word) + ending
• ar, er, ir
–e
– as
–a
– emos
– an

12. conditional (going to do)
• Infinitive + ending
• Ar, er, ir
–e
– as
–a
– emos
– an

13. Superlative
• More or less
• Article + noun + mas/menos + adjective + de
– Celestinoes el chicomasguapo de la clase

14. Formal Command
• Put in the yo form, then change the ending to
opposite.
• Er/ir = a
• Ar = e

15. prepositions
• Bajo = under
• Cerca de = near
• Despues de = after
• Detras de = behind
• Enfrente de = in front of
• Debajo de = below
• Sobre = on

16. Demonstrative
That ese esa
this este esta
That over there aquel aquella
those esos esas
these estos estas
Those over there aquellos aquellas