Drill Spanish direct object pronouns lo, la, los, and las across positions they occupy: before a verb, on an infinitive or gerund, or a command.
Cómpralo and no lo compres both mean something about buying it, and the direct object pronoun sits on opposite sides of the verb between them. Cómpralo attaches lo to the end of an affirmative command. No lo compres keeps lo sitting in front of a negative one. A learner who memorized a single placement rule and applied it everywhere gets exactly one of these two sentences right and has no idea why the other one looks wrong. This generator drills the pronoun through every position it can occupy, not just whichever one showed up first in a textbook. The direct object to replace is [OBJECT_CONTEXT?] (a specific noun or short scenario, like a book someone is buying or the keys someone lost, or leave this blank for a mixed set). Verb structure to drill is [VERB_FORM:select:a single conjugated verb,verb plus infinitive like voy a comprarlo,gerund or progressive like estoy comprándolo,an affirmative command,a negative command,a mixed set covering all five]. CEFR level is [CEFR_LEVEL:select:A1 (beginner),A2 (elementary),B1 (intermediate),B2 (upper intermediate),C1 (advanced)]. Build [ITEM_COUNT:number:8-25] items. Pick lo, la, los, or las based strictly on the gender and number of the noun being replaced, not the gender of anything else sitting in the sentence, since a masculine subject describing a feminine direct object still takes la. For a single conjugated verb, the pronoun goes before it, lo veo, no exceptions. For a verb plus infinitive or a gerund construction, the pronoun can go before the conjugated verb or attach to the end of the infinitive or gerund, lo voy a comprar and voy a comprarlo are both correct, and note that attaching to a gerund needs a written accent to keep the original stress in place, comprándolo, not comprandolo. For commands, split the rule cleanly by mood. Affirmative commands always attach the pronoun to the end, cómpralo. Negative commands always keep it in front, no lo compres, never attached. This is the single hardest split for a learner, since compra and compres look like minor spelling variants of the same word but flip the pronoun's position entirely. If [VERB_FORM] is set to the mixed option, shuffle the five positions so no pattern of "conjugated verb first, then infinitive, then command" lets a learner guess the next item's structure from the last one.
Range: 8 - 25
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Get Early AccessCompra and compres are one letter apart and flip an entire grammar rule between them. Cómpralo attaches the pronoun to an affirmative command. No lo compres keeps it in front of a negative one. That single-letter mood shift is why direct object pronoun placement trips up learners well past the beginner stage, the rule isn't hard to state, it's hard to apply consistently under the pressure of speaking in real time.
Name a specific object or scenario in [OBJECT_CONTEXT], or leave it blank for a mixed set, and choose [VERB_FORM] to drill one placement type or shuffle all five, single conjugated verb, verb plus infinitive, gerund, affirmative command, negative command. Set [CEFR_LEVEL] to control vocabulary and sentence complexity. Every item picks lo, la, los, or las based on the direct object's own gender and number, never the subject's, and flags when attaching to a gerund needs a written accent, comprándolo, to keep the original stress intact.
Once direct object placement is solid, indirect object pronouns follow nearly the same placement rules with one extra twist, le and les becoming se before lo or la. Reflexive pronouns share this placement pattern too, so drilling all three back to back reinforces one rule instead of three separate ones. Try any of them in the Dock Editor.
Paste this template into the Dock Editor, or into ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini, then enter a specific noun or short context in [OBJECT_CONTEXT], or leave it blank for a mixed set.
Set [VERB_FORM] to drill one placement type or shuffle all five in a mixed set.
Choose [CEFR_LEVEL] to keep each sentence's vocabulary and structure appropriate to your current stage.
Pick [ITEM_COUNT] to control how many sentences the drill builds.
Learn lo, la, los, and las as a set tied to the direct object's own gender, not whatever gender happens to appear earlier in the sentence.
Drill the exact split between affirmative and negative commands, where the same verb flips the pronoun's position depending on mood alone.
Generate practice scoped to one placement type, gerunds only or commands only, instead of a scattered set that mixes every rule into one worksheet.
Catch the written accent that attaching a pronoun to a gerund or infinitive requires, a detail that's easy to say correctly out loud and easy to miss in writing.
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