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Paco y Mario _____ en clase de contabilidad. Do you use estamos or estan?

1) Just wondering if "las ciencias medioambientales" is the most common way to say environmental sciences? The online dictionary I used suggested "la ciencia ambiental".

2) Can you use "así" in place of "de esta manera" in the sentence: "cree que de esta manera podrá ayudar..."?

In the last sentence, the word "ojalá" has the accent in the wrong place.

Greetings everyone
I would like to ask why the correct answer is the option:
La persona con quien fui a la fiesta era mi padre

while the answer

La persona con la que fui a la fiesta era mi padre
is marked as nearly correct when both options are acceptable, according to the lesson above.

Makes no difference to me, although or even though. So I'll use them interchangeable and let any error slide.

Helps me then to make the only mental effort to use even if as subjunctive.

In the section about no porque you say: "if the causal subordinate clause is negative, it allows both the indicative and the subjunctive (without changing the meaning)."

A says that no porque must be used with the subjunctive according to the Cervantes Institute, and you (Inma) seem to agree with him, saying: "with no porque you use the subjunctive."

I just did a Kwiz where "no porque era" was a correct option.

So, what is going on there? Can no porque take both the subjunctive and the indicative or just the subjunctive?

In the beginning of the story, using present perfect was clear because she is saying that her best friend has come to visit.  Afterwards, when she is narrating what they did each day, we have specific time (the day mentioned) and what they did which to me seems to be how we use preterite for a specific time (day) in the past, so it is confusing to see present perfect for specific time events in the past.  Can you please explain why you continued to use pr. perfect and did not switch to another tense. To me (the "has come" in the beginning) would have been more appropriate with what they are going to do in the future since she mentions that "they have made tons on plans."