Yo tengo dos hermanos. Los niños hablan mas que trabajan. (“nice” is an adjective) Tengo tantos juguetes como tú. Alberto habla tan como Andrea. María reads as much as Ana. Los padres gritan mas que los niños. Spanish exercise "Comparison : tan..como, tanto ..como, tanto/a/os/as..como" created by nicks0206 with The test builder. Tengo tanto dinero como él. Also, we will place the word COMO directly after TANTO or after a noun such as “amigos” (friends) or “dinero” (money), for example, “Estudio tanto como tú” and “Ella tiene tantas obligaciones como tú”. Tu casa está tan cerca como la mía. (Miguel eats as … Español: Nadie come tanto como Carlos. La carne de cerdo es deliciosa como la carne de vaca. For example, Josefina tiene tantos libros como Juan (Josefina has as many books as Juan). Notice that one of the main differences between TAN and TANTO in Spanish is that we will not use a noun after TANTO. The students study less than they should. In this first example, we will use 'to eat', comer: Miguel come tanto como Ana. [ More lessons & exercises from nicks0206 ] Click here to see the current stats of this Spanish test Tú tienes dos hermanos. If the comparison is about something expressed with a noun, we place that noun between the 2 words of the formula: Paco tiene tanto dinero como … Tanto + noun + como: Remember that "tanto" must agree in genre and number with the noun it qualifies. You are sending an incomplete test to be evaluated. According to this, use: Tanto + noun + como (with masculine singular nouns) El tiene tanto miedo como yo. Alberto habla lentamente también. I have as much money as him. A veces se puede producir un choque entre el como de esta expresión y otro como que viene exigido por la gramática: (8) Eliodoro era muy apreciado tanto como filósofo como como jugador de rugby. Can you guess which would use tan … como and which would use tanto … como? Isabel has as much money as Óscar. Español: Carla no habla tanto como su novio. Los estudiantes estudian menos que deben. 1977]). (He is as scared as I am) tanto + noun + como. Also, since both the experimental and control cases were randomly assigned, you would expect that the "scores" on the pre-tests would be equivalent for both groups. (“toys” is a noun) Remember that the word tanto must reflect the gender and quantity of the noun it describes. Submit my answers Clear answers. The kids talk more than they work. You can do this with any verbs you like. In this case, we use the structure verb+tanto como. tan como. Eres tan amable como tu hermana. English: I don’t travel as much as I want. Español: No viajo tanto como quiero. Tú tienes tantos hermanos como . Andrea habla lentamente. English: Carla doesn’t speak as much as her boyfriend. For example: Isabel tiene tanto dinero como Óscar. … verbo + tanto como … Here are some examples: English: No one eats as much as Carlos. just as / equally. The parents yell more than … (Your house is as near as mine) Tanto … como is used with nouns and verbs. En correlación con como (→ como, 2b), tanto forma una conjunción compuesta discontinua de valor copulativo y, si los elementos coordinados funcionan como sujeto, el verbo ha de ir en plural (→ concordancia, 4.4): «Tanto yo como mi hijo se lo agradecemos vivamente» (Ocampo Testimonios [Arg. We sleep as much as they do. Examples: María lee tanto como Ana. Conclusions with tan and tanto Esto no es gramaticalmente incorrecto, pero produce cacofonía. Nosotros dormimos tanto como ellos. This is only part of the story however, because "tanto" is functioning as an adjective and as such it needs to agree in gender and in number with the noun that it modifies. Además, como tanto el grupo experimental como el de control fueron seleccionados aleatoriamente, se espera que los "puntajes" de los pretests sean equivalentes en ambos grupos. 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