Subrayar in Spanish: underline a passage

Mark an important part of a text with a line underneath.

The idea

Subrayar means to underline. It is a regular verb in the present: subrayo, subrayas, subraya, subrayamos, subrayáis, subrayan.

Subrayo las palabras nuevas en el artículo.I underline the new words in the article.
¿Subrayas las fechas importantes con lápiz?Do you underline important dates in pencil?
Marta subraya una frase en su cuaderno.Marta underlines a sentence in her notebook.
En clase subrayamos la idea principal del texto.In class we underline the main idea of the text.
Los estudiantes subrayan las instrucciones antes del examen.The students underline the instructions before the exam.
Ayer mi hermana subrayó un párrafo del contrato.Yesterday my sister underlined a paragraph in the contract.

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Do not omit the accent in subrayó: it marks the third-person past, while subrayo is first-person present.

Choose the correct form: Yo ___ el título del informe. (subrayo / subrayó)
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subrayo
Subrayo agrees with the first-person subject yo.
Choose the correct form: Ayer Luis ___ la dirección. (subrayo / subrayó)
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subrayó
Subrayó refers to what Luis did yesterday.
Choose the correct form: Nosotros ___ los verbos del poema. (subrayamos / subrayan)
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subrayamos
Subrayamos matches the plural subject nosotros.

Write an original sentence about a passage you underline.