Enchufes 5A: Los alimentos y los gustos Enchufe estructural

1) Asking questions 2) Comparing and contrasting preferences

A m ti l / ella / Ud. tambin tampoco

Me gusta comer la pizza por la maana. Y a ti? -- A mi tambin! / A mi no. Y a Ud.? Y a Sam? A Sam tambin.

No me gusta comer la pizza por la maana. Y a ti? -- A mi tampoco! / A mi s. Y a Ud.? Y a Sam? A Sam tampoco.

How do we ask questions or compare and contrast using gustar-like verbs? Were going to take a look at this right now. What you need in order to do this is the preposition a (in this case it means to) and then the pronouns m, ti, or l, ella, Usted ... or even a persons name (one persons name) would work here. Ill show you how. Lets pretend we have a situation where someone likes eating pizza in the morning. The person says: Me gusta comer la pizza por la maana. Eating pizza... in the morning ... is pleasing to me. If you want to ask a friend, someone that you call t, you would say, Y a ti? Thats how you would say, and you? Y a ti? You dont say y t? because, remember, thats not the subject of the sentence. You have to use a preposition and another pronoun, Y a ti? The person could answer A mi tambin! (me too!) or A mi no. He or she cant say yo tambien or yo no. Thats a tendency for native English speakers because we want it to be like English, where we say yeah, me too! or I do, too! In Spanish you have to use the prepositon a and then the pronoun m to answer this question. A mi tambin! or A mi no.

Now what if the person being asked is someone you call Usted? Someone like a professor or someone whos older than you or someone you do not know very well or someone in a formal situation. You say Me gusta comer la pizza por la maana. Y a Ud.? And you? And the person would answer A mi tambin! or A mi no. And so what if youre talking about someone else, like a another classmate, for example, someone named Sam. You say Me gusta comer la pizza por la maana, and then you would say Y a Sam? Sam ...Does he like that? And someone else would answer about Sam, A Sam tambin. Yes, Sam likes eating pizza too. Now what happens if instead of saying that you like it you say you dont like it? No me gusta comer la pizza por la maana. Eating pizza in the morning ... is not pleasing to me. You would still say Y a ti? The question stays the same, a with the correct pronoun. But to express agreement, instead of saying A mi tambin! the answer would be A mi tampoco! Me neither! And to express disagreement we would have to change this to A m, s!, I do. In formal questions this would work the same: Y a Ud.? A m tampoco. I dont like it either. In the third person we would ask, Y a Sam? And here the answer would be, A Sam tampoco!

So to express agreement we have tambin or tampoco. Tampoco also also expresses agreement, but to a question with a negative sense. If a person says, Me gusta ... you express agreement by saying A mi tambien! If they say, No me gusta ..., you express agreement by saying, A mi tampoco! This is still agreeing with somebody, its just agreeing with somebody about not liking something.