How to identify the Regimen Supplement

It is known as a Supplement or Regime Supplement, but it is also one of the most difficult Spanish sentence complements when it comes to recognizing or, at least, this is the case during the syntactic analyzes carried out by Secondary students in Language class. To prevent that from happening, the following article explains how to recognize the Regimen Supplement in a sentence.

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The first thing to do when analyzing a sentence syntactically is to locate the main verb.

For example, if we want to analyze the phrase ' Silvia has Ana for the job ' we have to look for the verb that in this case is 'account'.

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Once the verb has been located, it is necessary to point out the subject and the predicate . To know the subject the verb is asked (Who?) And the answer is the subject.

So, who has Ana for the job? The answer is Silvia, so Silvia is the subject of the sentence. The rest is the predicate.

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When the subject and the predicate have already been identified, we analyze the predicate. To know if what accompanies the verb is a Regimen Complement, it is necessary to take into account that the verbs that govern preposition are accompanied by a regime complement. This type of verbs would be for example: count on, trust, fall in love with, remember, go out with, talk with ... There are many verbs that govern preposition.

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The preposition that this type of verbs carry is essential for the verb to have meaning. This is another characteristic of the Regimen Supplement.

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Therefore, when you find yourself analyzing a predicate if the question you ask the verb necessarily carries a preposition, what accompanies that verb will be a Regimen Complement. For example, who does Silvia have for work? With Ana. Thus, 'with Ana' would be the Regime Complement.