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Spanish Grammar & Composition

Spanish grammar is the grammar of the Spanish language (español, castellano), which is a Romance language originating in North-Central Spain and spoken throughout Spain, most countries in the Americas and Equatorial Guinea.

It is an inflected language, with a two-gender system and about fifty conjugated forms per verb, but with no noun declension and with a simplified pronominal declension.

Spanish was the first of the Romance languages to have a grammar treatise, written in 1492 by the Andalusian linguist Antonio de Nebrija.

The Real Academia Española (RAE) traditionally dictates the normative rules of the Spanish language, as well as its orthography.

This article first describes the most formal and standard rules of modern Spanish, and then goes on to detail idioms and colloquialisms.

Formal differences between Peninsular and American Spanish are remarkably few, and someone who has learned the dialect of one area will have no difficulties using reasonably formal speech in the other, however, pronunciation does vary, as well as grammar and vocabulary.