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I answered ‘quizá me esté enamorando’ and the suggested corrections were ‘quizás’ (even though I know they’re interchangeable) and ‘estoy’. From what I understand the indicative and subjunctive are interchangeable after quizás - so just want to clarify if my answer is acceptable or if something is off about it?
I see that, at the bottom of this lesson, there's a note that says what "pluscamperfecto" refers to. It's a very simple explanation -- to talk about something that had happened.
It would be SO helpful to have these short explanations of what a given grammar term means at the TOP of the lesson, just below the term for the lesson. I look at all these grammar terms and my eyes cross. I have no idea what they mean and I start to feel like there is no way I can learn Spanish because I'm so lost in all these terms. Taking the time to learn grammar terms seems like a tedious distraction from just learning to speak Spanish: a roadblock.
It's not uncommon for people in the US to have never learned grammar, so on behalf of myself, and all the mediocre public school graduates, I implore you: move the explanation for what a grammar term is to the top of the lesson. It's such a simple change and will make learning so much more accessible and these lessons so much more meaningful.
Why is the future/perfect future sometimes used for the same reason one could use conditional/perfect conditional?
El pobre chico se tuvo que acostar ________. The poor guy had to lie down because he had been working for so many hours.
de tantas horas como estuvo trabajando
Carmen piensa que eres un cobarde. -________. -Carmen thinks you are a coward. -Well, its not like she isn't one as well.(HINT: This is expressing an ironic reproach)Como si ella no lo fuera
Turn into the passive voice: "La secretaria ha estado ordenando los papeles."
I chose this one: Los papeles han sido ordenados por la secretaria.
but it marked it as wrong.
instead it said the right one was:
Los papeles han estado siendo ordenados por la secretaria.
what construction is being used here?
Ya solo queda media tarta vs solo queda media tarta
I can't really understand.
Also, today I studied los numerales. Por ejemplo, Esta moto me costó cinco veces más de lo que yo pensaba que iba a pagar.
"¿Hay algunas lecciones sobre este tema?"
¡muchas gracias!
I didn't realize that the entire proper noun is not capitalized or even just the nouns in the name. Apparently only the first word is?
Ps, I didn't see a response yet to the pair of questions regarding the use of the el/lo pronoun quandary.
Why es “que flores” correct? I thought “cual flores” would be the correct response… the question was “what flowers do you prefer?”
This is from an example in a lesson. the response given is: Desde pequeño. That seems incomplete to me. Would it be correct to say: Desde era pequeño.
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