Indirect Objects in sentences

Question

How would you phrase the following questions while utilizing indirect pronouns?

MODELO: Frida Kahlo mostró sus cuadros a sus amigos. Es verdad, Frida Kahlo les mostró sus cuadros.

1) Los cuadros de Frida Kahlo impresionaron a sus amigos.

2) En sus cuadros Frida comunicó su sufrimiento al público.

Answer 1

Welcome to the forum. There's a lesson here on how to use indirect object pronouns. We're a learning site, so we encourage people to try on their own.

To get you started:

1) Los cuadros de Frida Kahlo los impresionaron.
2) En sus cuadros Frida le comunicó su sufrimiento.

Edit: I think webdunce is right. The first sentence doesn't need an indirect object pronoun, but a direct object pronoun.

Well, I could be wrong, too. Some of their verbs have an implied DO and thus take an IO. (Golpear, for example, which means "to give a punch" already has a DO built into it...I think) - webdunce, Oct 24, 2010

Answer 2

Well, what's odd is, I can see they want (the people who wrote up the assignment) intend you to write Los cuadros de Frida Kahlo les impresionaron as the answer, but I think they mistook a case of personal a for an indirect object. (I could be wrong, though). To me, at least, a sus amigos appears to be a direct object.

See, I would have wanted to write Los cuadros de Frida Kahlo los impresionaron

I know this doesn't help the poster, but is impresionar a verb that takes an IO only??? (I could see it doing that...maybe having an implied DO).

I think you're right, which means I'm wrong. It should have been a direct object pronoun, los. Let me fix that. - KevinB, Oct 23, 2010

Answer 3

I need to substitute the indirect object nouns with one of the indirect object pronouns - so with #1, I need to figure out how to write it with an indirect pronoun...

Answer 4

Options (1) and (2) don't even look similar: one is about impressing others, and the other one about communicating suffering. Both are written in correct Spanish, though.