CSG303

292 Complete Spanish Grammar

6.    Los chicos insisten (por | en) salir en el auto.

7.    Yamos a asistir (en | a) la asamblea.

8.    El plan consiste (en | de) dos partes.

Verbs That Recjuire a Preposition in English but Not in Spanish

Notę that some Spanish verbs that dont require a preposition have English equivalents that do. Anglophones will be tempted to try to translate these verbs literally, adding a preposition where it doesnd exist. Learn this list of Spanish verbs without prepositions by picturing them in context (bajar las escaleras, to go down the steps).

In context, the verbs in this list are all followed by a direct object noun (or preceded by a direct object pronoun). Don’t forget to include the personal a when the direct object noun is a specific person (Busco a Carlos. I am searchingfor Carlos.).

apagar	to turn off (a light)	esperar	to wait for
bajar	to go down	mir ar	to look at
borrar	to cross out	pagar	to pay for
botar	to throw away	poder	to be able to
buscar	to look for	poner	to turn on (an appliance)
caerse	to fali down	quitar(se)	to take off
colgar (o > ue)	to hang up	sacar	to take out
encender (e > ie)	to light up	salir	to go out
escuchar	to listen to	subir	to go up

ejercicio

Traducción. Usa el vocabulario util.

I go down the steps, I go into the living room, turn on the TV, and I listen to the news. I dream of a day fuli of good news. For example, foreign leaders do not threaten with a new international conflict, the financial experts do not report dreadful details about the economy, and I stop thinking of the workTs problems. I am not selfish, for God’s sake. I only want one day of peace and happy thoughts. What news do I want to hear? For example, that we are all for peace and against war, that we are glad to have the simple things in life. Today, I am going to turn off the television, and I am going to look for my shovel to work in the garden.

de taił	el detalle	news	las noticias
dreadful	horrible	peace	la paz
financial	financiero (a)	selfish	egoista (m. and f)
foreign	extranjero(a)	shovel	la pala
fuli	lleno(a)	thought	el pensamiento
leader	el lider	to report	report ar