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SPANISH COMPOSITION

BY
EDITH J. BROOMHALL
CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL, MINNEAPOLIS
MINNESOTA

ALLYN and BACON
BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO
ATLANTA SAN FRANCISCO

Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing Co.—Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

PREFACE

This book aims to teach Spanish idiom. The greatest hindrance to the use of idiomatic Spanish lies in the failure to realize that common English words have various Spanish meanings.

To meet this difficulty, the notes and exercises of Spanish Composition are focused on the errors beginners most frequently make. For instance, attention is drawn to the fact that words like up, down, out, in, away are usually included in the Spanish verb, which is often entirely different from the English expression. Thus, while "to get" is obtener, "to get up" is levantarse.