Hola Inma,
The sentence given was "resultados terapéuticos en el dolor de estómago, cuello, espalda y pierna." In the A2 "Everything hurts!" exercise for this week there was a sentence "También, tengo dolor de estómago y de pies," where the "de" was repeated. I rationalised this as being way of saying that I have pain from / of stomach and from / of feet. I can't understand why the "de" isn't repeated in the example above from this B1 exercise.
Can you help please
Saludos
John
Hola John,
in this sentence: "resultados terapéuticos en el dolor de estómago, cuello, espalda y pierna." it is simply omitting "de" before cuello, espalda and pierna because it is implicit, so no need to repeat. You can add it of course: "resultados terapéuticos en el dolor de estómago, de cuello, de espalda y de pierna."
In the A2 exercise you could have also omitted "de": "También, tengo dolor de estómago y (de) pies"
What I mean is that if it is obvious there is no need to repeat "de", it is optional.
Saludos
Inma
Hola Inma,
The sentence given was "resultados terapéuticos en el dolor de estómago, cuello, espalda y pierna." In the A2 "Everything hurts!" exercise for this week there was a sentence "También, tengo dolor de estómago y de pies," where the "de" was repeated. I rationalised this as being way of saying that I have pain from / of stomach and from / of feet. I can't understand why the "de" isn't repeated in the example above from this B1 exercise.
Can you help please
Saludos
John
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