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For Saoirse: I just tried to send a message after getting the 500 denial message so let me know if this goes through
Why: que había muchas opciones rather than: que hay muchas opciones or even subjunctively: que haya muchas opciones?
Those of us who are old enough to have been taught grammar and parsing will be familiar with the concept of indirect questions. Maybe if that could be added to the explanation it would be clearer than "at what moment in time". (For some of us "indirect question" will be more familiar than "indirect interrogative sentence" because of what we were taught at school.)
Also "A ver" is, I believe, one of those impossible-to-translate phrases and the translation "Let's see" might not immediately make native-English-speakers think of indirect questions. When I thought about it some more I thought that "I wonder when..." might be clearer
As somebody already pointed out, if you're not aiming to do much writing, this point is really a marginal concern and I admit that I'm tempted to ignore it.
In the following sentence: "No dejes que Marcos te convenza. Es un embaucador."
Why is convenzas not correct? Doesn't the "te" trigger the tú conjugation?
Gracias, Augustine
Here is another example of the nonuse of an article in Spanish that I do not understand. "The city was an environmental model" is "la ciudad fue modelo ambiental" not "un modelo ambiental". I do not understand why there is no indefinite article like there is in English.
Just a suggestion, I was wondering if we could potentially include like a flashcard series equivalent where we can test new vocab we come into throughout kwiziq. So that we have the ability to review it after not coming across it for some time.
Hi,
I am confused about when to include an 'a' between two consecutive verbs. My search seems to indicate the it depends on the former verb. If so, is it something that has to be memorised with the verb or is there a rule of thumb?
Thanks and regards,
Colin
Shouldn't this be suavemente? Softly is an adverb here not an adjective?
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