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The passive is used more often in English than in Spanish. In Spanish active sentences are preferred in most cases. For example: She was bitten by the dog is most naturally expressed in Spanish as El perr...

The subjunctive is not a tense, but rather a mood. We don't tend to use it a lot in English but in Spanish it is used to convey feelings of doubt or emotion. Here is a useful anagram to help you to rememb...

As all Spanish nouns are classified as either masculine and feminine, I have found several ways of learning how to easily remember and be able to recognise the gender of a noun when I see it written down ...

To form the imperfect subjunctive, we take the "ellos/ellas" form of the preterite tense and remove the "-ron" ending. We then add the endings -ra -ras -ra -ramos -rais -ran or -se -se...

In the broadest sense, both 'por' and 'para' have the meaning of for, but they are used in different contexts and are not interchangeable. I find it helpful to think of it as if ‘para’ involves looking fo...