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Test your advanced Spanish grammar skills with this crossword focused on detached constructions — structures where a word or phrase is syntactically separated from the main clause for emphasis or stylistic effect. From dislocaciones to tópicos and focos, challenge your understanding of how Spanish speakers highlight and frame information in natural discourse.
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Clues
Across
- 1. To feel
- 3. After, indicating a later time
- 8. Gerund used as detached clause
- 9. Topicalization of a sentence element
- 11. Interpolated clause within sentence
- 12. Grammatical apposition structure
- 13. Door
Down
- 1. Always, at all times without exception
- 2. Descriptive detached adjective
- 4. Parenthetical inserted structure
- 5. Explanatory appositive clause
- 6. Enunciative detached structure
- 7. Dislocation of a syntactic element
- 10. when indicating a time
Answers
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Across
- 1. To feel → sentir
- 3. After, indicating a later time → despues
- 8. Gerund used as detached clause → gerundio
- 9. Topicalization of a sentence element → topicalizacion
- 11. Interpolated clause within sentence → interpolada
- 12. Grammatical apposition structure → aposicion
- 13. Door → puerta
Down
- 1. Always, at all times without exception → siempre
- 2. Descriptive detached adjective → descriptivo
- 4. Parenthetical inserted structure → parentesis
- 5. Explanatory appositive clause → explicativa
- 6. Enunciative detached structure → enunciativa
- 7. Dislocation of a syntactic element → dislocacion
- 10. when indicating a time → cuando
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