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What setting do I use for the oven?
I was marked as incorrect for not capitalizing the first letter in the sentence. Are the quizzes scored that harshly? I realize that sentences begin with upper case letters, just didn’t expect on these less than formal settings to be scored on case sensitivity.
How do we get lessons to clear from our listing. I seem to do the lesson, get both test questions correct, but the lesson stays in my list.'
Thanks.
Wouldn't "Le gustaría explicarme..." be just as polite a question as "Podría explicarme..."?
I’m confused about the sentence “Yo le dije que la quería”. Why not “Yo LA dije que la quería”
The "chilenos realistas" - is it really correct to call them "royalists"?
No olvidemos el ejemplo de la revolución americana. Elle estuvo la prueba que se podría lograr.
I thought on reading this lesson that all 'er' verbs with 'o' in would follow this rule to become 'ue' but then got a test on 'toser' and got that wrong (tried to put tueso, not toso). Plus comer stays as 'o'.
How do we know when to apply this rule, is it a case of just learning the verbs which are semi-regular? Are there a lot or is this pretty doable?
While I understand the explanation via timeframes and don't want to complicate things unnecessarily, this made me think:
Can't I use the imperfect (progressive) with such timeframes, too?
Ayer estaba limpiando la casa. (Should be ok.)
Ayer entre la 1 y las 2 estaba limpiando la casa. (?)
Ayer entre la 1 y las 2 estaba limpiando la casa cuando algo me asustó. (Should be ok.)
That is, can't the imperfect (progressive) be used with an explicit timeframe, too, as long as its function is descriptive or establishing a background, i.e. as long as the aspectual semantics are imperfective within the timeframe?
In the chart in the lesson, the meaning of "bueno" before the noun is listed as "simple/good" which implies that "buen hombre" could mean "simple man", which seems unlikely. Is this a typo ? Maybe the chart is meant to say that "bueno" before the noun means "simply good" ?
Thanks!
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