Hola Inma y equipo,
As part of the 'All related grammar and vocab' list for this exercise, would I be right in saying that Inma's excellent lesson, that I've included here, should also be listed?
Using tener + participio to express the completion of an action (perífrasis verbal).
Gracias
Clara
Hola Clara
Thanks for the observation.
I went back to the dictation and was going to include that lesson to the sentence saying: "...vi que [la carta] tenía escrito lo siguiente: cinco generaciones de Amalia"
The structure is identical to what we explain in the lesson about tener + participio, but if you think about this specific sentence, this is more of a literal translation: it had [something] written [on it]. I can't see here the sense of accumulation/completion. It's not like we can substitute it for "haber + participio", it wouldn't work. This sentence would be more like this other type of sentence using the verb tener more literally:
La maleta tenía pegada una etiqueta con su nombre.
The case had a label with her name attached.
La máquina tiene activada la función de succión.
The machine has the suction mode activated/on.
I imagine this is what we have if the subject is non-animated.
Having said that, maybe a note about this should be added to the lesson saying that we can see the same structure with objects as subjects without that nuance of accumulation/completion.
Saludos
Inma
Thank you Clara ... Reading this - has at least persuaded me to give the subject more thought, thereby enhancing my understanding [even if this reply is not directly relevant to the main point being made in this thread].
Focussing on what Inma wrote:
"It's not like we can substitute it for 'haber + participio', it wouldn't work"....
... showed that it can be illuminating, in this topic, to consider two almost identical sentences side by side.
For example, when my Spanish teacher wrote to me saying:
"No tengo decidido si me voy a jubilar", I was puzzled, and just could not understand why she had not said:
"No he decidido si me voy a jubilar".
This^ particular illustration is with a negative - so perhaps it deserves a slightly different interpretation; [my teacher suggested that the 'tengo' version here implies 'obligación'?]
Apparently we will still hear people [incorrectly?] using "tener" as an auxiliary verb as an alternative to "haber" - particularly in Galicia or near the Portuguese border [where it is grammatically correct in those other languages] - e.g. "tengo sido ..." for "I have been ..."
Hola Inma y equipo,
As part of the 'All related grammar and vocab' list for this exercise, would I be right in saying that Inma's excellent lesson, that I've included here, should also be listed?
Using tener + participio to express the completion of an action (perífrasis verbal).
Gracias
Clara
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