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 title: "Importance of Verb Tenses"
-teaching: 5
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+exercises: 3
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 - Explain how sentences in Spanish use verb tenses
-- Explain how the Spanish subjects
+- Explain the Spanish subjects and how they work with verbs
 
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 ## Verb Tenses
 
 In English, we often use verb tenses in sentences. For example, a common sentence to learn english is "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog." In Spanish, the sentence structures are often similar if not the same. A key part of learning Spanish is learning how to conjugate verbs.
 
+In English, the sentence is "The cat eats." The verb of the sentence is eats, and the subject is the cat. Similarly, in Spanish, the sentence is: "El gato come." The subject of the sentence ("El gato" aka the cat), comes before the verb, "come".
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+## Identify the subject and the verb of the following sentence:
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+The bird flies over the house. 
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+## Answer
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+The subject is the bird, because it performs the action. The verb is flies, the action of the sentence.
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 | -- | --- | ------- | ------- | ---------| -------- |
 | Yo | Tú | Él/Ella | Nosotros/as | Ellos/as | Ustedes|
 
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+Subjects are important because we need them for verb conjugation. Verb conjugation is the process of changing a verb form to provide information about the action being performed, such as who is performing it, when it is happening, and how it relates to other parts of the sentence. In Spanish, verbs are conjugated to reflect these aspects.
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+In both English and Spanish, sentences typically follow a subject-verb-object (SVO) structure. Understanding how verbs are conjugated allows you to form coherent and grammatically correct sentences.
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+### Two forms of conjugation
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+In Spanish, there are two forms of conjugation.
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+Infinitive Form: The base form of the verb (e.g., "hablar" - to speak).
+Conjugated Forms: Modified forms of the verb to agree with the subject and indicate the tense (e.g., "yo hablo" - I speak, "tú hablas" - you speak).
 
 
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 - Spanish sentence structure typically aligns with English
 - Verbs and subjects are important to create sentences
+- Verb conjugation has two forms 
 
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