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Have I used the verbs correctly in these two sentences?

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En mi opinion, las padres necesitan mantener las lineas de comunicacion en la familia tan que los hijos son consiente de los peligros de medicamentos por receta. Espero que el gobierno empiecen a combatar eso problema porque los hijos son la futura de nuestra sociedad.

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updated Aug 18, 2010
edited by --Mariana--
posted by tristado

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I agree it looks more or less fine. Some suggestions though as well, the first two are the same as Maria Claire:

  • "Los padres" instead of "Las padres" (it has to be masculine whether you are talking about only fathers or parents in general)
  • tilde on the final o in "comunicación"
  • "son consientes" instead of "son consiente" should be plural because the subject (los hijos) is plural
  • "empiece" instead of "empiecen" because el gobierno is singular
  • "este problema" instead of "eso problema" - not sure why but it sounds better to me!

Hope this helps

updated Aug 18, 2010
posted by Shadon
bien hecho, good spotting, can't believe I let those middle ones slip through lol :( Voting :) - Kiwi-Girl, Aug 18, 2010
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It looks pretty good to me - I would just make a couple of suggestions as follows:

En mi opinión, los padres necesitan mantener abiertas las lineas de comunicación en la familia para que los hijos son consiente de los peligros de medicamentos por receta. Espero que el gobierno empiecen a combatar eso problema porque los niños son la futura de nuestra sociedad.

(I would wait for confirmation from a native speaker though)

updated Aug 18, 2010
posted by Kiwi-Girl
ese problema...combatir - 0074b507, Aug 18, 2010
Don´t worry Marie-Claire, it is easily done - and I also can´t believe that we both let combatar stand instead of combatir! - Shadon, Aug 18, 2010