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Marcos G.C1Kwiziq Q&A super contributor

Lesson suggestion: types of adverbial clauses

Inma's answer below on time clauses and manner clauses got my attention and I looked at other web sites to learn about the types of adverbial clauses. This is a rich topic with lots to explore. It would be great if you could do a lesson on Kwiziq on the types of adverbial clauses.

Asked 3 years ago

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Kimberly K.A1Kwiziq community member

Stem Changing Verbs

I understand that some verbs are stem changing. In the example of "e" to "ie" verbs, the last "e" of the stem turns into "ie". This rule seems to be true for verbs like nevar (nieva), but why not verbs like "tener"?

Asked 1 year ago

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Barbara C.B2Kwiziq community member

Using encontrar here

"Encuentra a Andrew atractivo." Sounds funny to me, but I'm not a native speaker.

I got a little stumped on this one, but I wrote "Ella piensa que es atractivo (or would it be "sea" because of pensar?)

Asked 1 year ago

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Devin P.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

cierto means true if it appears after a noun?

The lesson states the following:

Cierto can also mean "verdadero/seguro" (true/truthful/sure/reliable). In this case, used with a noun, the adjective cierto is placed after the noun. For example:

¿Es cierto lo que dijo Marcos ayer?Is it true what Marcos said yesterday?

In the example above cierto is following a verb. Am I missing something?

Asked 9 months ago

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Daniel G.C1Kwiziq community member

Passed vs past. In the English translation of the final examples (“We'll call all those who have past the first test”), “past” should be changed to “passed”.

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Julia M.C1Kwiziq community member

Same question. So confusing ReynoldC1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

“I am confused when " preterito " is appended to most of the tenses. This practice is not widely used in Spain or Latin countries. Why not use the tenses which are commonly used. I know that the preterite is used for past tense so when preterito perfecto subjuntivo is mentioned I expect that the past subjunctive is meant NOT the perfect subjunctive! I wonder whether other participants experience the same problem.“ In school, we never learned the English equivalents of these various subjunctive terms. We didn’t really learn much about the subjunctive in English at all. It was a whole new concept beginning to learn it in Spanish. How is it taught to Spanish speaking children? Do they find it confusing?

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A. B.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

The construction of this sentence in English is unnatural.

I can't speak for Europe or Australia but I can tell you that in the U.S. no one is ever going to say, "We've seen the singer sign autographs to the fans." The correct construction for this verb is to sign autographs FOR fans...not to the fans. If I heard someone say this I would assume they were not a native speaker of English.

Asked 3 years ago

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Shirley S.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

English translationHice lo que pude ________ no llegáramos tarde. I did what I could so that we wouldn't be late.(HINT: ¿Porqué o por queHola, just wondering about the conditional tense used in the English translation, whereas llegáramos is the future tense. Muchas gracias, Shirley.

Asked 1 year ago

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Wendy P.C1Kwiziq community member

Same subject and objectNo creo que vaya al cine después.I don't think I'll go to the cinema later.I thought if the the subject and the object were the same the infinitive was used for the second verb and not the subjunctive

Asked 2 years ago

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Henry M.Kwiziq community member

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