{ "chapter_id": "19", "slug": "combining-dops-iops", "title": "Combining DOPs & IOPs", "time_range_sec": [4570, 5034], "summary": "When using both indirect and direct object pronouns, the IOP comes first; if both pronouns begin with l- (le/les + lo/la/los/las), le/les changes to se.", "suggested_grammar_note_id": "object-pronouns", "rules": [ { "title": "Order and placement", "bullets": [ "Indirect object pronoun comes before direct object pronoun (ID order).", "Both pronouns go before the conjugated verb, or both attach together to the infinitive/gerund.", "You cannot split them: never one before the verb and one attached." ] }, { "title": "le/les → se", "bullets": [ "When le or les is followed by lo/la/los/las, le/les becomes se to avoid two l-pronouns in a row.", "se lo, se la, se los, se las are the only forms produced by this rule.", "Because se is ambiguous (him/her/you/them), add a clarifier: a él, a ella, a usted, a ellos, a ellas, a ustedes, or a + name." ] }, { "title": "Written accents", "bullets": [ "When both pronouns attach to an infinitive or gerund, a written accent is required on the original stressed vowel.", "Examples: comprándotelo, hacérselo, dárselo, leyéndoselo." ] } ], "examples": [ {"es": "Yo te lo compro.", "en": "I buy it for you.", "tags": ["te-lo"]}, {"es": "Ella me lo da.", "en": "She gives it to me.", "tags": ["me-lo"]}, {"es": "Ella está dándomelo.", "en": "She is giving it to me.", "tags": ["gerund", "accent"]}, {"es": "Tú estás mostrándonosla.", "en": "You are showing it to us.", "tags": ["nos-la", "gerund", "accent"]}, {"es": "Ellos quieren presentártelos.", "en": "They want to present them to you.", "tags": ["te-los", "infinitive", "accent"]}, {"es": "Ella se lo hace a él.", "en": "She makes it for him.", "tags": ["se-lo", "clarification"]}, {"es": "Ella quiere hacérselo a él.", "en": "She wants to make it for him.", "tags": ["se-lo", "infinitive", "accent"]}, {"es": "Ella se lo escribe a ella.", "en": "She writes it to her.", "tags": ["se-lo", "clarification-ella"]}, {"es": "Tú se los lees a ellos.", "en": "You read them to them.", "tags": ["se-los"]}, {"es": "Yo se lo estoy comprando a ellos.", "en": "I am buying it for them.", "tags": ["se-lo", "progressive"]}, {"es": "Yo puedo hacérselo a él.", "en": "I can do it for him.", "tags": ["se-lo", "infinitive", "accent"]} ], "vocab": [ {"es": "se lo", "en": "it to him/her/them (combined pronoun)", "pos": "phrase"}, {"es": "hacer", "en": "to do/make", "pos": "verb"}, {"es": "presentar", "en": "to present/introduce", "pos": "verb"}, {"es": "mostrar", "en": "to show", "pos": "verb"} ], "conjugation_tables": [], "exercises": [ {"sentence": "Ella _____ da. (it to me)", "correct": "me lo", "distractor": "lo me", "explanation": "IOP comes before DOP: me lo."}, {"sentence": "Yo _____ compro a él. (it for him)", "correct": "se lo", "distractor": "le lo", "explanation": "le + lo → se lo to avoid two l-pronouns."}, {"sentence": "Tú _____ lees a ellas. (them to them)", "correct": "se los", "distractor": "les los", "explanation": "les + los → se los."}, {"sentence": "Ellos quieren present_____. (them to you)", "correct": "ártelos", "distractor": "artelos", "explanation": "When attaching both pronouns to an infinitive, add a written accent: presentártelos."}, {"sentence": "Ella está dándo_____. (it to me)", "correct": "melo", "distractor": "lome", "explanation": "Order is me + lo when attached to gerund."}, {"sentence": "Yo puedo hacér_____ a él. (it for him)", "correct": "selo", "distractor": "lelo", "explanation": "le → se before lo; result attached to infinitive needs accent: hacérselo."}, {"sentence": "Ella se lo escribe _____ él.", "correct": "a", "distractor": "para", "explanation": "Clarification uses a + pronoun (the IOP construction)."}, {"sentence": "Nosotros _____ damos. (it to you, sg.)", "correct": "te lo", "distractor": "lo te", "explanation": "IOP te before DOP lo."} ], "caveats": "Source garbled forms ('AOS', 'sayos'); reconstructed from grammar rules." }