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Using archetypal sentences

This strategy involves creating your own templates in order to have a model to follow.  For example, you take a sentence that you hear or make up, and let it serve as your model for some grammatical form. This sentence is referred to as an "archetypal sentence.”

Click on the following links for examples of archetypal sentences for different grammar forms.

Creating your own archetypal sentences

Silly contrary-to-fact statements

Archetypal sentences (Superlatives)

Remembering archetypal sentences heard in real life

Archetypal sentences in context (Tú commands)

 

 

 

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