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Put your advanced Spanish grammar to the test with this crossword focused on emphatic structures — from cleft sentences and redundant pronouns to focus-marking constructions. These powerful tools allow speakers to highlight, contrast, and intensify meaning in sophisticated ways. Can you recall the key terms and structures that take your Spanish to a truly native-like level?
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Fill in the grid: pick a square, read the clue and type your answer.
Clues
Across
- 1. To return or do again
- 4. when temporal conjunction
- 6. Exclamatory expression of feeling
- 9. Absolutely, used for total emphasis
- 11. Expressiveness in language use
- 12. To seem
- 13. Accentuating a word or idea
Down
- 2. Clean
- 3. Even, used to add emphasis
- 5. Intensity, strength of expression
- 7. Superlative form expressing maximum
- 8. Adverb meaning 'also' or 'too'
- 10. Always, at all times without exception
Answers
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Across
- 1. To return or do again → volver
- 4. when temporal conjunction → cuando
- 6. Exclamatory expression of feeling → exclamacion
- 9. Absolutely, used for total emphasis → absolutamente
- 11. Expressiveness in language use → expresividad
- 12. To seem → parecer
- 13. Accentuating a word or idea → acentuando
Down
- 2. Clean → limpio
- 3. Even, used to add emphasis → incluso
- 5. Intensity, strength of expression → intensidad
- 7. Superlative form expressing maximum → superlativo
- 8. Adverb meaning 'also' or 'too' → tambien
- 10. Always, at all times without exception → siempre
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