Spanish Grammar: Subjunctive with Adjective Clauses
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| Spanish Grammar: Subjunctive with Adjective Clauses la gramática española: el subjuntivo con las cláusulas adjetivas
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| The subjunctive is used when we do not know if the action will take place. If we know that it is or will be a reality, the indicative is used. The subjunctive is used to express doubt, how a person feels about an action or state of being, a wish, intent or command. It can also be used to express facts that are the opposite of reality.
Adjectives are specific words that help modify a noun. Adjective clauses are phrases that help describe another phrase (usually called the antecedent) connected with a word like QUE. The subjunctive is used in an adjective clause when the antecedent is indefinite, unknown, or is nonexistent. So, here’s a statement that has a known (definite) antecedent. Yo tengo un gato que corre rápido. See how corre stays in the indicative (not subjunctive). It doesn’t work because we all know that I have cat. No surprises here. However, here’s an unknown statement. Yo quiero un gato que corra rápido. Since we don’t have a cat that meets the description, and are only describing a hypothetical one, we use the subjunctive. |
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