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How common is the second form of the imperfect subjunctive in everyday language? I.E. The conjugation that has 'iese' for ER/IR verbs and 'ase' for AR verbs.  Do native speakers favor one over the other?

Hola Inma y equipo, 

As part of the 'All related grammar and vocab' list for this exercise, would I be right in saying that Inma's excellent lesson, that I've included here, should also be listed?

Using tener + participio to express the completion of an action (perífrasis verbal). 

Gracias

Clara 

 CORRECTION:Lucrecia earns a living by acting in comedies.....................In english you do not use the word LIFE in this sentence

Estos ingredientes los cocemos en una olla ....

This one was a bit mean! Cocer is not truly a regular -er verb. True, its endings are the same as those for regular verbs but the stem changes in most forms.

it seems to be a typo in the above exercise. It says "damos" instead of "vamos"

Is this an impersonal sentence? 

The answer says "yes" but I think it can be "no". It seems more natural to translate this as "They have found a shipwreck on the beach." which could be a sentence from a story where "they" have been identified previously. Do you want us to answer "yes" for being "impersonal" whenever a sentence has no subject and uses third personal plural form of the main verb?  

Esta lección me hizo reír...

As a very small child, I remember hearing the sentence, ¿Cómo que no? quite often. Perhaps a response to a refusal to do something? I don't think I was a disobedient toddler, so it must have been one of my siblings being a bit naughty, un poco rebelde o algo asi, haha ;))

Referring to suggested title add-on, I should have said cuando plus past tenses in the subjunctive.

Shirley.

Is ´"tecnologías nuevas" wrong? I thought nueva could be put before or after the noun?

My answer “él tuviera” was marked wrong. How is it wrong to include the stated pronoun for clarity?