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Hello Irma. With regard to the use of "conque" for the English equivalent of "so," my Mexican tutor says in Latin American spanish "entonces" or " así" are used. Further she writes:
< Aquí "conque" funciona como un "so" que indica consecuencia, y en ese contexto se entiende. Pero te confirmo que en México diario nadie dice eso — sonaría muy chistoso, como si estuvieras leyendo a Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.> Maybe you can update this answer.
And with regard to the use of " y eso que ," she states that more common is the use of < aunque > or < a pesr de que.> If you are in agreement, perhaps an update on this, too, might be warranted.
Thank you so much!
The speaker is affirmativly stating that it is a pain. There is no doubt. The listener’s agreement would support the indicative. The “correct “ answer goes against what we are being taught— unless the speaker’s opinion is considered an emotion? I need a little help here. Again, I don’t see. How put the listener nose or doesn’t know has any bearing on whether or not to conjugate in the subjective or the indicative. Help!
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In this subject, there was one quiz question I had where "do you intend" and "are you planning on" were both present. I chose "planning" and it was marked wrong. In today's questions, there was no "intend" and only "planning on" and it was right. Please try to make these consistent, preferably by accepting "planning on" for both questions.
You state that él is a 'subject personal pronoun', but it seems worth mentioning that él is not always the subject, it can be an object or another role. I'm not sure what term is best to describe that... Wiktionary says it's a "subject and disjunctive pronoun (used as a subject and after prepositions)"
Examples where it is not the subject of the sentence:
'Voy a hablar con él.'
'A él le gustan los perros.'
Good evening
Please confirm if the above "personal "a" is used when referring to pets in the following sentences:
I like my cat.
I like cats
I like my pet
I like pets.
Thank you!
Hola Silvia!
Thank you for clarifying this. I have two further questions:
1. The sentence: A los hombre les gustó ella - can we place "a" before the word "ella"?
2. With the verb "encantar" when used to express liking could you give me an example of a sentence where the personal "a" is omitted when it is the subject of the verb and not the direct object.
Thank you!
Hola Silvia
Please could you confirm if the following sentence is incorrect.
Este libro le va a gustar a usted. You are going to like this book.
Also, is there an alternative word order eg. a usted le va a gustar este libro
Un saludo
When to use the perfect tense versus the simple past (Perfecto vs Indefinido)
While I find the Spanish of this page clear, the English is confusingly structured. It starts ...
"In English, we would use I went for all of these cases:"
Which is not necessarily true .. and later in the lesson it uses went-have been as I would use them.
Hi - I believe "there will be many people" should be conjugated as singular since people is singular, no?
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