la óptica

Question

Can you please look over these and make any comments that you feel are necessary. I am having a bit of trouble with the subjunctive, and I have the feeling that this last one is incorrect because of my lack of skill using this mood.

¿Puede usted ver los objetos desde lejos?

Can you see objects from far away?

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¿Necesita usted sus anteojos para ver desde lejos o cerca?

Do you need your glasses to see far away or up close?

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Esto es para ayudarle a ver desde lejos o cerca

This is to help you see far or near

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¿Desea usted que haga una cita con el optómetro?

Would you like to make an appointment with the optometrist?

Answer 1

Perhaps "usted" does not fit with "hagas" in that last sentence.

The sentence would probably be better phrased by a native speaker anyway. I just learned in another thread that one uses the infinitive if the subject in in a subordinate clause is the same as the subject in the main one.

So you would say: ¿Desea hacer una cita? Or ¿Desea que le haga una cita? to ask instead: "Would you like me to make you an appointment?"

Answer 2

¿Desea que le haga una cita? to ask instead: "Would you like me to make you an appointment?"

Would this be one of those situations where it would be acceptable to use the yo pronoun to clarify whether haga is 1st or 3rd person?

...que yo le haga una cita?

it's clear without it, but you have to think about it.

¿Necesita usted sus anteojos para ver desde lejos o cerca? Do you need your glasses to see far away or up close?

There must be a clearer way to ask that.

I'm confused as to whether you are asking?

Do you need your glass to see....? (either far or near)

Do you need your glasses in order to see up close or in order to see far away? [Are you near-sighted or far-sighted?]

Necesita usted sus anteojos para ver ¿desde lejos? o ¿ desde cerca?

Answer 3

I was thinking about adding the "yo", but I would have added it at the end of the sentence and written:

"¿Desea que le haga una cita con el optómetro yo?

in order to emphasize that I would personally accept the responsibility to make the appointment.

But then I thought that I had better leave such a decision to a native speaker. I make too many stupid mistakes:-( and I was at least sure that one could write the sentence without the "yo" ! It is probably only we English speakers who would have to think about it. Wouldn't you agree?