"Come una naranja." Why no "ella"?
In the video in 1.4 - Food and Regular -er Conjugations, the first word is sometimes in parenthesis, but she says it. Like "(Usted) come una fresa." Would you really say the word usted, or is it just telling you what type of speech it is?
Also later in the video, there is a girl eating an orange and it says the correct Spanish is "Come una naranja." Why no "ella" or anything before come? I don't understand why sometimes there is, and sometimes there isn't a pronoun. They are used early in the video, but not later.
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ella would not be correct. well maybe but if u want to be formal than use come. I know that means he/she eats a orange. Come goes along with the ser congugation.
Solace and Jeff, welcome to the forum 
Sunshine, that is a good answer
Jeff, I changed your title, as "stupid questions" do not exist on this forum, all questions are welcome.
In spanish the general idea is: do NOT use subject pronouns. But the teacher includes some(in brackets) to distinguish. In Spanish you do this by context, we do NOT use subject pronouns.
Have a look at this thread:
Ditto what the other guy said and also adding that in spanish, you don't normally need a pronoun because the verbs are conjugated and that explains who is doing what.
At first, I didn't get it either or I didn't like it, one of the two but now I understand. It makes things easier kind of because there are already so many things to say/type that omitting even one word like a pronoun really helps!
It gets the brain working more. Good Stuff!!!!!!
It is not necessary to say the usted, they are putting it in () to make it known to a Spanish learner that they are talking to you in usted form, as opposed to the tú form which would be conjugated differently. If there is no no (Usted), you can usually assume it is he or she, whoever was previously being talked about.
I hope i have said this correctly. And I hope that it helps
