Question

SOMEONE PLEASE HELP :( behind on Spanish work currently due to hospital visits.

Instruction: Compare the following well-formed translations with grammatically incorrect sentences (indicated with an asterisk at the beginning) and note any patterns you recognize:

English - Some people want to be famous.
Right - Algunas personas quieren ser famosas.
Wrong - *Algunos personas quieren ser famosas.

English - No man wants to go to that movie.
Right - Ningún hombre quiere ir a esa película
Wrong - *Ningunos hombre quiere ir a esa película

English -I don't know anything.
Right - No sé nada. *No sé algo. I never read books. Yo nunca leo libros.
Wrong - *Yo leo libros nunca.

English - Some girls dance.
Right - Algunas niñas bailan.
Wrong - *Alguno niñas bailan.

What is your hunch about these sentences, comparing the right and wrong?

Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation:

Some people want to be famous.

Nouns require agreement in gender and number. Personas is feminine and plural, so "some" needs to be feminine and plural.

No man wants to go to that movie.

Hombre is singular and masculine.

I don't know anything.

"I don't know (lit. nothing) anything" vs. "I don't know something"

I never read books.

Words to describe how often something is done go before the verb.

Some girls dance.

M/F and # agreement