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Hi Inma,

This lesson says that sometimes haber in the imperfect subjunctive can replace haber in the conditional; but doesn't say when. I had a tutor in Mexico who claimed (that least in some cases) the construction had to be hubiera....hubiera; whereas a Mexican friend said the construction is always hubiera.....habría or vice versa depending on which clause comes first. This lesson seems to say you can replace habría with hubiera in this construction if you feel like it. Can you clarify this for me, please?

Please explain when we should use "Yo soy " and "Yo estas" - in what contexts??

THank you

When you say that we use  "por culpa de" for something  with a negative result and use the example as given above " por culpa de mi novio soy la mujer más feliz del mundo........" Why do you say that this sentence has a negative result?

One of my answers is “No me apetece un bocadillo ni un burrito”.

According to the corrector, this answer is wrong.

I do not understand because in the explanations, there is a note which reads as follows:

“We sometimes omit the first “ni” and only use the “ni” in the second element of the sentence with a verb in negative”

In English, we also say that a book is "heavy reading" when the subject matter is academic or complicated and detailed.  A subtle difference between heavy reading and difficult to read.  A book might be difficult to read if it is badly written.  Not quite the same as "heavy reading"

Does the same subtle difference exist in Spanish?

Hola,

In the explanation for the following sentence, it's mentioned that one of the subjunctive possibilities is that it might snow later:

Aunque esté nevando, voy a sacar al perro a pasear.

My question is: because we are using nevando, rather than nieva - is that not telling us it is snowing right now (present participle), and therefore can't be a future event?

So, the only possibility is that it is subjunctive because it is shared information that it is snowing right now?

Gracias,