Read the following sentence in Spanish. Compro la gasolina en la estación de servicio. Substitute "la gasolina" with a direct object pronoun and explain why you used the pronoun you did.

Answer 1

The sentence "Compro la gasolina en la estación de servicio" can be rewritten using a direct object pronoun as follows:

"La compro en la estación de servicio."

In this case, "la" is the direct object pronoun that replaces "la gasolina."

The reason we use "la" is that "gasolina" is a feminine singular noun in Spanish. Direct object pronouns agree in gender and number with the noun they replace. Since "gasolina" is feminine (la gasolina), we use "la" as the direct object pronoun. If it were a masculine noun, we would use "lo" for the direct object pronoun.

In summary, "la" is the appropriate direct object pronoun because it corresponds in gender (feminine) to "la gasolina."