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Keep It Simple Stupid! one of those horrid acronyms they come up with on corporate training courses but worth keeping in mind
t'other day, my spanish teacher was quizing me about my week and i started to say that espero que ir a segovia when she corrected me with vaya . Ah but, i replied, surely because the subject in the first and second clauses are the same i can use the indicative (I blame JP time was i wouldnt have recognised a dependant clause if i tripped over one in the street)
then why use que? at all she replied, genuinely puzzled. Doh!
Back before i became a padawan grammar nerd i would happily have come out with espero ir or quiero ir.
I imagine that saying "i want that i do go" sounds as awkward in spanish as it does in english when you have the perfectly straightforward option of i want to go available to you
Its worth remembering that this subjunctive lark is a requirement of certain linguistic forms that are not always the norm.
To be fair to jp he did point this out back then :-)
in the Group El Subjuntivo .
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donperigo, if you're a padawan, does that make me a Jedi master? If so, I don't use the Force nearly enough....
When subject(1) = subject (2), go ahead and use an infinitive, just like in English. When subject(2) is different than subject(1), you'll need a "que" and a conjugated verb... and if the independent clause is just right, you'll need the dependent verb to be subjunctive.
Conditions have to be just right to get the subjunctive, which is why Spanish teachers like to drill us on the the independent/dependent clause structure. It takes a perfect storm of a. a subjunctive trigger phrase, b. s(1) does not equal s(2), c. and the relativizer "que" for the delicate subjunctive to want to come out and play.
solo un maestro de gramatica JP ;-)
La cancion de Juanes "A Dios le pido" me ayudo mucho para aprender la forma de la subjunctiva en un ambiente muy natural. Espero que ellos continuen con este canal. Disfrute mucho la musica!
Eileen