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Hola,

I have just completed a test with the above sentence to be completed with an adverb.

I do not have a problem with the adverb but with this part of the sentence:

... no nos quedan más ...

Can you please explain how the above equals 'we have no more' in English?  I wonder why it is quedan and not quedamos.

Many thanks for you help.

Saludos,

Colin

These statements actually aren’t disagreements at all. They are contrasts or comparisons. Disagreement with someone saying “I am X” would be replying with something like “No, you are not X.” Replying by saying “I am not X” is not disagreeing, but rather comparing yourself to the first speaker.

In the last line, why " vive a Madrid" not " vive en Madrid"?

I just had this question

Tal vez vosotras ________ cansadas después de bailar.

This was a checkbox question with these options

estuvierais
estuvisteis
estáis
estaréis
estuvieseis

Based on the lesson on this page, I would expect both the indicative and subjunctive to be correct (estuvisteis, estuvierais, estuvieseis).

However, the question had a hint:

(HINT: Conjugate "estar" in El Imperfecto de Subjuntivo)

Based on this I left off the indicative and my responses (just estuvierais and estuvieseis) were scored as correct.

The result is that I'm left uncertain about using estuvisteis here, and about the limits of the applicability of the lesson on the page.

If estuvisteis is OK here, then I think the question should be revised to not have that hint, and to check for the three correct answers. That way students like me wouldn't be confused thinking "Well, in the lesson , it says you can use indicative or subjunctive with no change in meaning. But here, apparently the indicative is wrong, so that lesson can't be trusted. I wonder what the real pattern is. I guess I'll need to look elsewhere to find out."

On the other hand, if the indicative is wrong here, then I think this lesson, or some other lesson, should give some hint about why that is so, since I'm reading this lesson as saying that either the subjunctive or indicative is OK.

Thanks for your help!

Answer given : Estoy vendiendo . My answer marked wrong was : yo estoy vendiendo. Is that just because I wrote yo and not Yo ? If so  that seems rather harsh.

In the quiz question "se les han acabado las camisetas que me gustaban" what job is "les" doing? 

If I say tengo que is this the same as necessito que for example tengo que ir or necessito ir 

Hi,

I was wondering if there is a reason the "c" turns in a "j",  It seems to me that

conduce would sound fine in front of "e" and "i" (perhaps just a change in front of the "a" and "o".

Do you know of any reason for the change?

Thank you.

In spite of the hint that 'esos' refer to more abstract things,  in the test above ( cakes) why would it be esos not eses?

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