B2 Grammar
Complete list of B2 Grammar points with meaning, formation, examples and audio. Tap any point for a full explanation.
- El imperfecto de subjuntivo (-ra / -se) Past subjunctive (-ra/-se) for past wishes, doubts and hypotheses
- Condicionales irreales: si + imperfecto de subjuntivo Unreal/hypothetical conditionals: si + past subjunctive, then conditional
- La voz pasiva: ser + participio Passive voice with ser + past participle; the participle agrees with the subject
- Verbos de cambio: ponerse, hacerse, volverse 'Become' verbs: ponerse (sudden state), hacerse (gradual), volverse (radical)
- El estilo indirecto Reported speech: relay what someone said with 'que' and shifted tenses
- El futuro perfecto: habré hecho Future perfect (habré hecho): an action finished before a future point
- Aunque + subjuntivo; conectores adversativos aunque takes indicative for facts, subjunctive for concessions/hypotheses
- El pretérito perfecto de subjuntivo: haya hecho Perfect subjunctive (haya hecho): a completed action in a subjunctive context
- El neutro «lo»: lo bueno, lo que Neuter lo turns adjectives into abstract nouns and forms 'what' with que
- Perífrasis de gerundio: llevar / seguir + gerundio Gerund phrases: llevar (have been doing for), seguir (still doing)
- Contraste: pero, sino, sino que Three 'but's: pero adds a contrast, sino/sino que correct a negative
- Verbos con preposición: soñar con, pensar en Many verbs need a fixed preposition: soñar con, pensar en, depender de
- Conectores avanzados: no obstante, en cambio Formal discourse connectors of contrast and consequence
- El «se» accidental: se me cayó Accidental se: presents an unplanned event as if it happened by itself
- Obligación y suposición: deber, tener que, hay que Ways to say 'must': obligation (tener que, hay que) vs guess (deber de)
- Diminutivos y aumentativos: -ito, -ón Suffixes that add size or feeling: -ito (small/fond), -ón/-azo (big)