Past action inside a completed time frameFor the sentence "mientras vosotros ________ el postre, yo hice el café", why is "estuvisteis comiendo" incorrect? The lesson seems to suggest that it should be correct.
For example, the lesson says this: When the ongoing past action is inside
a completed timeframe in the past. See how all examples
above contain a time phrase: "toda la noche", "de 6 a 7 de la
tarde", "el sábado pasado". In the quiz question, the completed timeframe is "while you were having dessert". Isn't that a similar time frame to "toda la noche"?
Also, the lesson says this: We don't know when the "eating" started, but the end is expressed with "hasta que acabamos con toda la comida". This may sound as if that is an interrupting action and may
lead you to wrongly think you need to use El Imperfecto Progresivo [estaba+present participle]. Likewise, in the quiz question, we know that "having dessert" has a beginning and an end, although we don't know exactly when.
Gracias!
Hi, can we get translations for the Spanish dictation exercises? That would be an awesome feature. Currently I translate everything by hand. (Don't mean to sound demanding. Just as a suggestion for future implementations maybe. I would probably put the translation on the same page where we get a chance to compare our answer to the one kwizbot expects. Or, if that reveals too much context, at the end of the lesson.)
Didn't we learn in another lesson that we could substitute "que" for "porque"? Does that mean "debido a que" and "que" are also interchangeable via the transitive property? I feel like either I am misremembering or there are some nuances I'm not picking up on.
Are these correct?
A ti te gusta la historia y la fisica.
A mi me gusta el tenis y el futbol.
Instead of al comienzos?
I thought the original post cut off some of the contents, ergo the 2nd post, which is redundant (somewhat in keeping with the theme of this post
For the sentence "mientras vosotros ________ el postre, yo hice el café", why is "estuvisteis comiendo" incorrect? The lesson seems to suggest that it should be correct.
For example, the lesson says this: When the ongoing past action is inside a completed timeframe in the past. See how all examples above contain a time phrase: "toda la noche", "de 6 a 7 de la tarde", "el sábado pasado". In the quiz question, the completed timeframe is "while you were having dessert". Isn't that a similar time frame to "toda la noche"?
Also, the lesson says this: We don't know when the "eating" started, but the end is expressed with "hasta que acabamos con toda la comida". This may sound as if that is an interrupting action and may lead you to wrongly think you need to use El Imperfecto Progresivo [estaba+present participle]. Likewise, in the quiz question, we know that "having dessert" has a beginning and an end, although we don't know exactly when.
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I would like to ask if this construction is often used in Spanish. Is it in some cases interchangeable with cuando? Can it also mean immediately after? E.g. : al regresar del museo me tumbé en la cama? Al plus infinitive seems to be a very convenient construction.
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