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.
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Preferir... que... just means: prefer... than... .Doesn't it?
Preferir... en vez de... means: prefer... rather than.... Why? I don't understand.
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Could this be ¨no puedo dejar de pensar en ella¨ ?
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In sentence 1 why is the verb "dar" which I thought means to give used instead of "ir"?
In sentence 2 I see Cuenco means basin. Is it being used to somehow mean since a young age?
In sentence 2, "19" is spoken with an "f" sound in it when I was expecting a "c" sound. . Is it a dialect, am I hearing it wrong, or am I wrong that 19 is "dieinueve"?
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This is the third time in the past month that I'm finding loaded leftist political sentences in the quizes. You guys should really leave politics out of the learning environment. It's a huge turnoff. It makes you guys look very ignorant and extremist. One sentence for example was celebrating socialism. Very inappropriate to say the least.
No ________ todo el tiempo a nuestro hijo; necesita espacio.
We can't be watching our son all the time; he needs some space.
(HINT: use modal verb "poder" and the verb "vigilar" for to watch)
podemos estar vigilando
podemos estar vigilandolo
One of the quiz questions was
The citizens choose a new president for the country.
Los cuidadanos _____ nuevo presidente para el pais.
The hint was conjugate elegir in el presente.
To make the sentence complete I typed "eligen un" for the blank, but my answer was wrong. It said the answer was "eligen". Some of the quiz questions require you to type 2 words (or more). How was I supposed to know that this specific question only wanted 1 word, which doesn't seem complete?
I disagree strongly with the solution given on this question, and it seems to go directly against your own "quick lesson" if the answer is "era" -- the time frame is known and relevant because the palace was the home of a king with a specific reign, which would be known. Explícalo, por favor!
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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