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El inciso y la aposición
Module 14 of the free Spanish course (CEFR C2, continued), lesson 13 of 30: Written Spanish drops information into the middle of a sentence between commas. On this page: 8 words with their genders and respellings, the rule, a watch-out line and the audio — the study notes behind the workbook's QR.
The words
Spanish
English
Say it
publicado en marzo
published in March
poo-blee-KAH-doh ehn MAR-soh
el inciso
the aside (in a sentence)
ehl een-SEE-soh
la aposición
the apposition
lah ah-poh-see-SYOHN
dijo ella
she said
DEE-hoh EH-yah
impugnar
to contest
eem-poog-NAR
entre comas
between commas
EHN-treh KOH-mahs
en medio de la frase
in mid-sentence
ehn MEH-dyoh deh lah FRAH-seh
la raya de diálogo
the dialogue dash
lah RRAH-yah deh DYAH-loh-goh
Respellings follow the course’s say-it key; the stressed syllable is in capitals. Print this lesson’s flashcards (PDF) — the words on the front, the English and respelling on the back.
La regla · The rule
Written Spanish drops information into the middle of a sentence between commas. El informe, publicado en marzo, fue impugnado. María, ella, no dijo nada.
Y también · And also
The inciso is also how Spanish reports speech inside a narrative — and it uses the raya, not quotation marks: —Vengo —dijo ella. Note the inversion, dijo ella, and note that each raya closes against the words it belongs to.
Ojo · Watch out
In an inciso the verb comes BEFORE the subject: dijo ella, respondió él, never ella dijo after a quotation. Spanish dialogue opens with a raya (—), not with quotation marks, and a second raya opens the reporting clause.
Do it now — on paper
Say all 8 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the Spanish spelling alone — begin with publicado en marzo.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the Spanish.
Write two sentences of your own that get the watch-out line right, then the two practice pages of workbook lesson 13 in Module 14 are the written half of this page.
This free course is the reading half. The writing half — write-in lessons, daily practice pages with built-in review, self-checks and a full answer key — is the companion workbook series, The Spanish Ladder: one workbook per module, fifteen in all, released band by band with the Basic band (Modules 1–5) first.
Keep these words
Turn this lesson’s words into flashcards, then space your reviews — the two habits the research behind our study guides backs hardest.