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Hola,
Is it possible to convert this structure into the past tense, as if I was telling a story in the continuous past:
Hacía tres meses que Nuria vivía en California.
Or does this structure only work in the present?
Gracias,
Stuart
Can the speaker say, ¨Ojalá aprueba el examen¨
or does he have to say it the other way, ¨Espero aprobar el examen.¨
Thanks.
The sample sentences in all of the lessons are too fast when the sentences are long and complex, even for advanced students. I have to use a separate text to speech app at a slightly reduced speed in order to fully understand them. They are not just speaking at normal speed, but at a very high speed. (In my considered opinion)
thank you, James
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.
The sentence ending
y conseguirá el mejor colegio para a tus hijos.
Do we have to use the personal a after prepositions? I have never seen this before.
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?
The table formatting is bad so the third column can't be easily read. This problem exists in both chrome and safari.
Am I right in thinking that this form of relative cannot be used at all after a preposition?
Hola Inma,
I'm wondering if sin que se (lo) enterara is also valid in this case.
Saludos
Ελισάβετ
In the Tip it says that the above este etc can be used as demonstrative pronouns. This is not quite correct as demonstrative pronouns are éste ,ésta, They have a hyphen above the e . Where as esto is similar in both cases
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