Ch 19 路 Lesson 5Spanish 路 Chapter 19 路 Lesson 5 路 Grammar primer
Relative pronouns advanced
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agrees with the thing owned
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means 'whose' and behaves like a possessive adjective, so it matches the thing possessed and ignores the owner entirely. In , is feminine plural because is, even though the author is a man. Getting that agreement right is the classic .
A whole idea needs , not
, .
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When you are commenting on an entire situation rather than a named noun, will not carry it. , is wrong: the genderless antecedent needs the neuter or . The same applies when there is no noun in sight at all, as in .
After a preposition, takes an article
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Spanish never leaves a preposition at the end of a clause. It goes in front, and then normally takes an article that agrees with the noun: , , . does the same job in more formal Spanish.
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