Mis padres están tomando la habitación doble. ellos están tomando

Now that you have worked through a lot of material that includes these basic patterns, and you have compared grammatically correct and incorrect sentences, write down what you think is a rule that could explain what makes a sentence grammatically correct or not. for example, you might write something like: "verbs always match nouns in number, and they usually come before the noun." in other words, make your best guess for the grammar rule that makes sense out of the pattern(s) you see in the phrases you have been working with. review if you need to, and you might briefly check your hunches against the sentences you have been working with in this or previous modules. keep in mind that what you're after is your hunch, not a grammar rule from a text book. now check your hunch with the explanation of this principle in the following pattern.

Ser/ir: past tense in this group. both verbs have the conjugation.

Don francisco, (1) es paraguayo, tiene una amiga (2) admira mucho y (3) es una experta en la tradición oral guaraní. don francisco, (4) familia materna era uruguaya, es un enamorado de las tradiciones de su país. los aspectos culturales (5) más ha hablado a sus amigos son el idioma y el mate. en paraguay, se lo suele tomar frío y se le llama tereré. para francisco esta bebida es (6) mejor simboliza la identidad cultural del paraguayo. otra cuestión (7) le interesa mucho a don francisco es el guaraní, lengua (8) él mismo escribe y habla.