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Spanish 3

Free Spanish 3 study guide: 9 units with summaries, key ideas, flashcards and 270 practice questions with step-by-step solutions.

Lines up with: High school Spanish 3; college intermediate Spanish.

Units

1. UNIT 01

   Present Subjunctive: Formation

   This unit teaches how to build every present subjunctive form: regular verbs, stem-changers, spelling changes and the six irregulars. Every later subjunctive unit depends on getting these forms right automatically.
2. UNIT 02

   Subjunctive with Wishes and Emotion

   This unit covers the two most common triggers of the subjunctive: wishes or influence (querer que, pedir que) and emotion (alegrarse de que, temer que). It also teaches when to use an infinitive instead of que plus the subjunctive.
3. UNIT 03

   Subjunctive with Doubt and Impersonal Expressions

   This unit shows how doubt, denial, disbelief and impersonal expressions of opinion trigger the subjunctive, while expressions of certainty keep the indicative. It also covers quizás and tal vez and the present perfect subjunctive.
4. UNIT 04

   Subjunctive in Adjective and Adverb Clauses

   This unit covers the subjunctive in adjective clauses that describe unknown or nonexistent things, and in adverb clauses of purpose, condition, time and concession. These patterns show up constantly in reading passages and writing tasks.
5. UNIT 05

   The Future and Conditional

   This unit teaches the simple future and the conditional: how to form them, their shared irregular stems, and their uses for predictions, polite requests, hypotheticals and guesses about the present or past.
6. UNIT 06

   Imperfect Subjunctive and Si Clauses

   This unit teaches the imperfect (past) subjunctive, the sequence of tenses that decides when to use it, and si clauses for real and contrary-to-fact conditions. Si clauses are among the most tested structures in intermediate Spanish.
7. UNIT 07

   Perfect Tenses (Pluperfect, Future Perfect)

   This unit covers the compound perfect tenses beyond the present perfect: the pluperfect, future perfect, conditional perfect and the perfect subjunctive forms. All use haber plus a past participle and place actions in order relative to another time.
8. UNIT 08

   Por vs. Para and Relative Pronouns

   This unit sorts out the two prepositions that both often mean for, por and para, and teaches the relative pronouns que, quien, el que, el cual, lo que and cuyo that link clauses together.
9. UNIT 09

   The Passive Voice and Se Constructions

   This unit covers the true passive (ser + past participle), the passive and impersonal se, the se for unplanned events, and estar + participle for resulting states. These structures are common in news, signs, instructions and formal writing.