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I had thought that with the noun 'mano' we shouldn't use the possessive pronoun/s?
Please could you advise me here?
Gracias
Clara
¡Hola!
Let's have a look at the following sentences:
1) Mis padres querían que estudiara Derecho
2) Susana quería que le hubiera traído fresas, pero no pude
Could you tell me if Pluscuamperfecto de subjuntivo is used in the second sentence to emphasize that somebody didn't manage to bring strawberries, however the result of the first one is unknown?
Regards,
Alexander
Why "de donde *eres*" for informal but "de donde *es* usted" for formal?
In a quiz, I wrote "Estamos adentro de la sala." and it got marked wrong. It said that the only correct answer was "Estamos dentro de la sala." In the notes on this topic, it says that "adentro" and be used for "inside a place" but not for "inside a thing". It seems like "la sala" is a place. Why is it wrong to use "adentro" in this case?
[A comment, not a question]: "Guión" is interesting because the Academia in Madrid recently ruled that it had to be spelled "guion". They added that they were not prescribing how it was supposed to be pronounced. A lot of people (in Spain; I'm not sure about América?) still pronounce it with two syllables, as if the 'o' carried an accent: 'ó'. It does become a bit problematic when you expand it to "guionista" - where there is no obvious indicator telling you to make it four syllables (i.e., separating the 'ui' from the 'o') > gui_on'ista.
This was the question in the test that led me to this lesson, but the lesson doesn't address the issue of choosing the correct past tense.
Ustedes ________ separados el año pasado.You were separated last year.
The hint tells you to use the tense for estaban, but I don't understand why since this seems to be talking about a definitive time that something happened. Either the action of separating happened last year or the circumstance of being separated happened last year. Can someone explain why we should choose estaban over estuvieron (ustedes) besides the fact that the "hint" tells us to?
Thanks in advance for any help!
Hello,
What is the difference between bastante and suficiente?
I understand your explanations perfectly, but I was surprised to learn that it was correct to use "mitad" and "medio" interchangeably when discussing physical space.
It seems to me that way back when I was first learning those concepts, I was told that medio meant middle and and mitad meant half, and that it was an error to confuse the two. Is this a case of one of those "errors so common among native speakers that now it's not wrong anymore" ? Or was I taught incorrectly to begin with?
Thanks for the insight!
Hello, like many people I struggle between choosing the imperfect or indefinido tense.
In this exercise, the sentence below was correct,
"pero ayer el guiso de mamá tenía carne,"
Please would you help me understand why the imperfect tense is correct, I had understood that the use of a time clause "ayer" would have made it indefinido.
Thanks
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