Fill in the blanks with verbs from the list using impersonal constructions with se in the present tense. November 01 9:00 AM 2 attempts remaining Grade settings External referencesVocabulary list Grammar explanation 350-353 Questions Modelo En Polonia se baila polca. Word Bank reference caer dañar hablar poder recetar servir vender vivir Question 1 with 1 blankEn Costa Rica español. Question 2 with 1 blankEn las librerías libros y revistas. Question 3 with 1 blankEn los restaurantes comida. Question 4 with 1 blankEn los consultorios medicinas. Question 5 with 1 blankEn el campo muy bien.

We talk about impersonal constructions when the sentence that we produce doesn’t have a determined subject; this implies that we don’t have a “responsible” for the action that is expressed by the conjugated verb.

One way of producing impersonal sentences is by adding the syntactical particle “SE” instead of a substantive. For example:

SENTENCE WITH A SUBJECT: Las chicas bailan todos los días en el parque (The girls dance everyday in the park)
IMPERSONAL SENTENCE (without subject): SE baila todos los días en el parque (No-Subject dances everyday in the park).

Se + Verb conjugated in simple present form.

Now we have our answers:

1. En Costa Rica SE HABLA español

2. En las librerías SE VENDEN libros y revistas

3. En los restaurantes SE SIRVE comida

4. En los consultorios SE RECETA medicina

5. En el campo SE VIVE muy bien.

Notice how we don’t have a specified subject in any of these sentences and, related to their meaning, all of them can be understood as GENERALITIES or things that occur constantly.