to operate as they do in Spanish. And so on. We could add other areas of similarity, but you will soon discover them for yourself as you progress through your course.
From what has just been said it would be easy for you to assume that all of Portuguese is put together like Spanish. But at the same time you are sophisticated enough to suspect that this is not likely to be the case, and you are right. That is precisely what this section on grammar is all about. There are a number of areas where Portuguese does not structure itself like Spanish. Sometimes the differences are major, sometimes they are minor, but always they loom as potential trouble spots for those who know Spanish. On the following pages we will concentrate on the most significant of these.