LA ACENTUACIÓN DE MONOSÍLABOS Y DE INTERROGATIVOS Y EXCLAMATIVOS / ACCENTING ONE-SYLLABLE WORDS, QUESTIONS AND EXCLAMATIONS.
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Remember: most one-syllable words don’t have an accent mark (tilde): mar, sol, flor… However, there are one-syllable words that require an accent mark in order to distinguish them from others that are written and pronounced exactly alike. |
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Ti never carries an accent:
- Te vi a ti en el bar.
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Remember: all interrogative and exclamatory pronouns have accent marks: |
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Por qué (separated) is an interrogative pronoun, and porque (junto) (one word) means because:
– ¿Por qué no vienes luego a la fiesta?
– Porque mañana me tengo que levantar muy pronto.
LA ENTONACIÓN (II). ENTONACIÓN INTERROGATIVA / INTONATION (ll). INTERROGATIVE INTONATION.
Open-ended questions are those that are answered with other than a sí/no, and employ interrogative pronouns, qué, quién, cuándo…
When asking for information, questions have a descending intonation:
- The tone rises until the stressed syllable of the interrogative pronoun (higher tone).
- Then descends until the end of the sentence.
The rise and fall of the tone is broader than in regular sentences.
Listen, paying attention to the intonation:
¿Cómo estás?
Sometimes the intonation rises when you want to express other shades of meaning: for example, in a polite request.
Listen, paying attention to the intonation:
¿Quién puede cerrar la puerta?
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Listen to and repeat the following questions with the proper intonation. |
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| ¿Qué tal? |
* ¡Para grabar tu voz, activa el micrófono! / To record your voice, enable the microphone!
Grabaciones
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| ¿Dónde vives? |
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| ¿Cuál es tu teléfono? |
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| ¿Quién es? |
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| ¿Dónde vive tu abuelo? |
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| ¿Cuánto cuesta? |
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| ¿Cuántos años tienes? |
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