Spanish language Q&A Forum

‘The local police has captured the murderer.’

I’d say this should be ‘have captured’ in English,  ‘has’ sounds unnatural to me 

Is there a rule for using the definite article in Spanish? It often trips me up. It doesn’t always follow the same pattern as English, eg in Castles text: …visitar castillos (no ‘los’, where in English there would be no ‘the’), but then:… la historia de los castillos medievales (in the  English version there is no ‘the’, the history of medieval castles; the history of the medieval castles is not incorrect it just has a different meaning).  Maybe, as in English, it’s very much about common usage and there’s no absolute rule.?

In the quiz to find out which level you are, I was marked wrong for putting "hay" instead of "tiene" in the question about the city having a pool. Why is it giving me two different answers now? 

we can say:  Would you mind me raising my price for the following packages you buy

we can say: Would you mind me raising my price for the following packages you are buying/ you are going to buy/ even: you will be buying, but:

iI don´t think we can say: Would you mind me raising my price for the following packages you WILL buy

can we? why?

The article mentions a 'hot air ballon', it should be 'hot air balloon' with double 'o'.

Porque es usa viva no vive atras leyenda.  Tambien porque no permite juegos y partidos?  

Why is my answer wrong, I have used desde but the tense is marked wrong

I've  =    I have

so why not present perfect?