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Como ves, mamá sabía que si ellos comían de ese fruto, pensarían que ya no la necesitaban.
Hello!
Why use subjuntivo vs indicativo in this sentence?
Una vez que ustedes firmen, no hay marcha atrás.
I can’t imagine using subjuntivo, or maybe I’m just thinking of it as a real factual warning vs something hypothetical that I can’t imagine in real situation.
In question #9: No ________ ni una cosa ni la otra, me da igual.
I don't prefer either of them, I don't care.(HINT: Conjugate "preferir" in El Presente)
Can you say, ninguno de ellos instead?
In today's translation exercise - "Something’s not right in my new home" - I had to scratch my head really hard to understand why the phrase "objetos que no estaban donde los había dejado" had rendered "donde" without a tilde on the 'o'... Yes, it is a relative clause - but here, the 'connecting link-word' is "que" rather than "donde" > (" ... objects [which were] not where I had left them").
Initially, I thought I should be able to compare it with sentences structured round the verb "saber", for example:
"No sé dónde lo guardé"
and
"No sé dónde viven" -
[sentences given in my dictionary and grammar book].
Hi Can you please explain why - "I don't know if I will see him again" is not subjunctive, because it is all so uncertain.
Thanks
brenda
I’m sorry this is the worst lesson I’ve found on this site. I’ve read it several times and still don’t know which to use in conversations or writing
Hi - I understand the basic gist of this lesson, and I see in other responses the note about another part of the sentence indicating the uncertainty with the future tense. However, on the short 2 question quiz, the first sentence I'm being given is "El cine nuevo abrirá el mes que viene"; nothing in this sentence indicates the uncertainty in the English translation - "The new cinema will probably open next month". In a case like this, would it be incorrect/stilted to use probablemente/an equivalent?
Thank you Inma > It certainly provided us with an interesting illustration of several figurative expressions ! ... However, none of my dictionaries included a translation of "caña" which conveys Carlota's "awesomeness" [as in the title of the passage]. Perhaps we can interpret "caña" in the sense that Carlota acts as a "supporting pillar" for anyone who needs her help?
I don’t understand the use of quedarse in this sentence: “me quedé gratamente sorprendido”. It means I was pleasantly surprised. Why not use a form of estar in the preterite to express surprise? Unless this is a phrase used or has another meaning? I thought quedarse meant to stay. Thanks!
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