A concise and simplified grammar of the Spanish language

40 ETYMOLOGY AND SYNTAX.
Note.—The first and second persons plural of the Verb
m the imperative mode, drop the final letter, when nos and
OS are affixed to them ; as salvémonos, let us save ourselves ;
instruios, instruct yourselves ; instead of salvémosnos, in-
struidos.
On all other occasions, the foregoing
Ex.
Pronouns are
generally placed before the Verb :
Dat.—El nos dio la noticia. He gave us the news.
Yo le he escrito la carta. I have written him a letter.
Ellos me enviaron el libro. They sent me the book.
Ace.
—
Nosotros le vimos. "We saw him.
Ellos se han lastimado. They have hurt themselves.
El la acompañará. He will accompany her.
107. To give energy to the expression, the syntactical
order of the Pronouns in the dative and accusative cases
may be inverted, and particularly when the sentence begins
with a Verb: Ex.
Dejóme ver sus escritos. He allowed me to see his writings.
Mostróse muy atento á mis supli- He showed himself very attentive
to my entreaties.
cas.
108. Sentences sometimes occur in which the direct and
indirect objects of the Verb are Pronouns. In such instances
the indirect object is to be put in Spanish before the direct
—that is to say, the order of the Pronouns is reserved in
the translation ; and observe that the third person singular
or plural of the indirect object is on such occasions always
Ex.
se :
El me lo dio. He gave it to me.
Voy á daríe lo. I am going to give it to thee.
Se lo he escrito. I have written it to him.
El nos lo dijo. He told it to us.
Yo OS la enviaré. I will send her to you.
Enséñeselo*. Show them to them.
109. We have now to consider those personal Pronouns
of the dative and accusative cases that are preceded by a
Preposition; namely, á mí, a tí, á él, á ella, á ello, á si, á
nosotros, á nosotras, á vosotros, á vosotras, á ellos, á ellas.
These Pronouns are frequently employed with the other