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It seems that the llevar construction from B1 Spanish is more flexible?
For example if I want to say "He had been working with his dad for a few months", then I could write:
Él llevó trabajando con su papá por unos meses.
Por unos meses él llevó trabajando con su papá.
Él llevó trabajando por unos meses con su papá.
Far more forgiving grammatically than the hacía constructions.
I don't understand ¿Por dónde vas? because the translation isn't good English. Do you mean 'where are you?' or 'where are you up to?' (in a book) or 'How far up the road have you got?'
Or perhaps 'where are you at?' is modern usage that I've just never heard before.
One of my answers is “No me apetece un bocadillo ni un burrito”.
According to the corrector, this answer is wrong.
I do not understand because in the explanations, there is a note which reads as follows:
“We sometimes omit the first “ni” and only use the “ni” in the second element of the sentence with a verb in negative”
Hi,
Does the section headed "Bear in mind that their regular superlative forms can also be used" mean that there are two ways to say "The youngest of my brothers is called Juan:
El menor de mis hermanos se llama Juan.
and
El más menor de mis hermanos se llama Juan.
Thanks
¿Tienen el mismo significado "está por llover" y "está para llover"? ¿Hay algún matiz?
hi - What is the indicator we should look for to understand whether the verb is being used for third person presente or second person imperativo? Is it that in Presente, there will always be an El / Ella?
Could you please explain further why "cuál" is used instead of "qué" in these examples?
Ella quería saber cuáles eran mis intenciones.Debes preguntar al médico cuáles son los efectos secundarios de las pastillas.
Both hubo and habia mean there was or there were. What is the difference?
My inclination is to go with the imperfective when talking about someone who has died, as I think of it in terms of general description about who they were:
“My mother was an amazing woman. She was an excellent teacher, and loved her work.”
Am I correct that the imperfect is most appropriate in this situation? Would putting a time limit trigger the preterite?
“She was a teacher for 20 years, and loved her work.”
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