Exercises C2 : usar las restricciones sintácticas

These exercises are designed to consolidate your command of advanced Spanish syntactic rules covered in the course, including clitic doubling, negative concord, and stylistic inversion characteristic of literary registers.

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Exercice 1 — Clitic Doubling: Complete the Sentence

Fill in each blank with the correct clitic pronoun required by the syntactic structure. Write the complete corrected sentence as your answer.

1. A María ___ regalaron un libro de poesía sus amigos.
2. A los estudiantes ___ explicaron las normas sintácticas con mucho detalle.
3. A ti ___ importa mucho la precisión en el lenguaje literario, ¿verdad?
4. A ese poema ___ falta una estrofa para alcanzar la perfección formal.

Exercice 2 — Negative Concord: Spot and Correct the Error

Each sentence contains an error related to Spanish negative concord. Identify the mistake and rewrite the full corrected sentence.

1. No vi a ninguna persona en el salón, ni tampoco ningún libro encima de la mesa.
2. No dijo nada nadie durante toda la ceremonia literaria.
3. Nunca he visto algo tan hermoso como ese fragmento de prosa lírica.
4. No encontré a alguien capaz de explicar la inversión estilística del sujeto.

Exercice 3 — Stylistic Word Order: Choose the Most Literary Option

Select the sentence that best reflects the stylistic inversion and syntactic precision typical of literary Spanish as discussed in the course.

1. Which sentence demonstrates correct stylistic inversion for emphasis in literary Spanish?
2. Which sentence uses fronting most effectively to highlight the object in a literary context?
3. Which sentence correctly applies subject-verb inversion after a fronted adverbial in literary prose?
4. Which option best illustrates the use of syntactic dislocation to foreground information, as expected at C2 level?