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Hello, there is a section called "Variable Subjunctive" that has the sentence:
no tengo un profesor que viva en madrid
which means:
I don't have a teacher that lives in madrid.
My question is why would this be a subjunctive, it seems like what this person is saying is a fact that he knows that he doesn't have a teacher that lives in madrid. Or maybe he's trying to say that he doesn't have a teacher that he KNOWS OF. Idk I just want to know why it's a subjunctive. thank you
Using El Pretérito Imerfecto in the Gabriel example above seems incorrect/confusing to me, also. Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the imperfect here indicate a general inability to do something, like Gabriel just didn't know how to put the key in the keyhole (incidentally, the sentence should read "key in the keyhole", "keyS in the keyholeS", or "key in the keyholeS" if a single key fits two locks), which seems highly unlikely? It seems to me that El Pretérito Indefinido is more appropriate because: Gabriel didn't manage/succeed in putting the key in the keyhole, and we are referring to a specific moment in the past and the time when it happened is relevant.
The examples given seem to be in the preterite, not the subjunctive. Should the title be changed, or the examples? Or am I mixed up?
Apologies, as this is a bit outside the lesson. Can the infinitive ever stand alone as a command in Spanish (without the a + form) in either the negative or positive? I was under the impression that it could, but I don’t specifically remember learning to do so, and I might be transferring from another language I’ve studied. Thanks!
Your approach to address this subject is confusing. Please consider rewriting the teaching or add a new teaching in ONE lesson addressing all possibilities. Include all possible questions and answers about what date,day, month, year etc.
I do not have a Spanish keyboard so cannot put in the accents
Sorry, i understand that hacia is sort of correct, only the accent is missing.
Examples: "What you did was well out of order" (very wrong). "My dog's well hard" (very tough). "I'm well chuffed" (very pleased). "He was well choked" (very disappointed).
Why does should have done [something] use the present conditional rather than the perfect conditional?
The link to "common colours" in this lesson is wrong. When I click on it, I just get taken back to the beginning of this lesson.
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