Spanish language Q&A Forum

Would not invoke the subjunctive would it? The test answer to this question says that it dies.

The translation that is suggested seems a word-for-word translation:

…pintó el último de ellos a la edad de 90 

Shouldn't the following be one of the accepted alternate options?

…pintó el último de ellos a los 90

I guess this is an error (the translation):
Es imprescindible que hayamos entendido esta lección.
It was essential that we understood this lesson.
--> It is essential that we understood this lesson.
Otherwise a different form has to be used in the spanish sentence.

I chose " caliento" because "abrigo" is masculine. Why is "clienta"?

The final Spanish text is different, and somewhat better, than the individual chunks presented during the translation exercise. For instance:
(1) "madrugar" (in the final text) when the individual chunk was "levantarse"
(2) "veraneantes" (in the final text) when the individual chunk was "turistas". 

None of the examples uses articles before times or months (or, indeed, anything).  This leads the poor naive student (me) to believe that articles are not used in these situations.  And then I get a bad result on the first quiz I take because, yes, apparently one may use articles.  Sure, it's a valid way to learn, but it's unnecessary.

This is way beyond my level. Can we start with things more simply?