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Mary Jane H.C1KwizIQ community member

Vamos hacer

Why not "vamos a hacer" in the example. Is there a lesson I missed about this that you can refer me to?

Asked 5 years ago

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Dorit P.C1KwizIQ community member

Fue o era

Hola, en el frase "Gregorio Rojo fue su primer entrenador", por que no es "era"?

Muchas gracias,

Dorit

Asked 6 years ago

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Stuart M.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

Why indirect object, not direct?

Hola,

In this sentence, Gabriel was going to be helped financially by his parents

Gabriel decidió comprar el piso puesto que sus padres iban a ayudarle económicamente.

Why is Gabriel an indirect object, so ayudarle, as opposed to ayudarlo?

I'm guessing it is because there is a hidden direct object of money?

It's a bit hard for me to get my head around Gabriel being an indirect object because they help him, rather than help him with help (money in this case)!

Gracias,

Asked 6 years ago

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Gregory Y.A2KwizIQ community member

Why is the imperfect used on the 1st person singular example in this lesson. Is it to imply that I used to seem him doing it regularly? Thanks, Greg

Asked 7 years ago

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D. A.A2KwizIQ community member

Can't seem to match up to my improvement timeline percentages

Have any of you struggled to fulfil the expectations of the improvement timeline? The grey line is always at least 4 percentages above my progress. What does it look like for you? Are you managing? Are you ahead? Let me know

Asked 4 years ago

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John O.C1KwizIQ Q&A super contributor

El pueblo tenía muchos visitantes

Hola,

When you listen to the recorded narration of the above sentence, there is a different sentence 'Yo tenía siete años en aquella foto."

Regards. John

Asked 7 years ago

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Lorin S.B2KwizIQ community member

Fuimos v eramos

Hello, why is the imperfect used in this sentence since knocking on the door is a single event? Why not "fuimos" ?

Eramos nosotros los quien llamamos a la puerta

sorry about the accents

Asked 2 years ago

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George C.C1KwizIQ community member

Place of origin and exceptions to the z and l rule

The exceptions are both words that describe places of origin. Is this a pattern or are these two examples that just happened to be place names. I can see three possibilities:

1) When you have a place of origin adjective (from Spain, from Analusia) you always use gendered plural endings.

2) When you use gendered plural endings for adjectives ending in z or l you always use gendered plural endings

3) It's just a coincidence in the examples and neither 1 or 2 is a pattern.

Which one of these cases is closest to being correct?

Asked 5 years ago

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Elvira N.B1KwizIQ community member

using the present participle in the past

Is there a rule for choosing between the preterite + present participle and the imperfect + present participle eg:

Estuvimos hablando con la gente/Estábamos hablando con la gente

Asked 6 years ago

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