Spanish Questions and Syntax

Question

When asking a question such as

"Has the office implemented all of it's safety procedures?"

does the Spanish version look like this

"¿Se ha implementado todos los procedimientos de seguridad la oficina?"

or like this

"¿Se ha implementado la oficina todos los procedimientos de seguridad?"

or like this

"¿La oficina se ha implementado todos los procedimientos de seguridad?"

I am confused by the syntax of Spanish questions. Does the subject "the office" come first like in the english sentence or does the verb "to implement" come first?

I really appreciate any help anyone can give me on this.

Answer 1

The only problem I see here is that question syntax as opposed to statement syntax has not been used. Question syntax = verb/subject Statement syntax = subject/verb.

So the only thing to change in fifuentesh's translation would be the syntax of the sentence to "Ha implementado la oficina todos los elementos de seguridad?"

If you want to use the sentence with an impersonal subject, you can say - "Se han implementado todos elementos de seguridad?" (here you are asking if the action has been done by anyone, we don't know who the subject is, that's the impersonal "se")

Answer 2

"has the office"-->"¿La oficina ha"

"implemented all of it's"--> "implementado todos sus"

"safety procedures?"-->"procedimientos de seguridad?"

"¿La oficina ha implementado todos sus elementos de seguridad?"

Answer 3

I like fjfluentesh's version. He chose to state it using active voice (removed the se). The presence of the se in your version makes it look like passive voice which usuallly downplays the role of the agent (por la oficina).

Have all of its saftety procedures been implemented by the office? (passive voice)

Has the office implemented all of it's safety procedures? (active voice)

"...its..." - 002067fe, May 27, 2011

When the dog has got its bone, leave the apostrophe alone. - Eddy, May 27, 2011

Answer 4

"¿Se ha implementado todos los procedimientos de seguridad la oficina?"

"¿Se ha implementado la oficina todos los procedimientos de seguridad?"

"¿La oficina se ha implementado todos los procedimientos de seguridad?"

All those sentences, I'm afraid, are grammatically wrong. The "se" before "ha implementado" is a kind of passive marker, so you can't force the sentence to have "la oficina" as a subject. The sentence is more like "It has been implemented...", where you can't say "the office", but "in the office". In Spanish it is the same:

¿Se han implementado todos los procedimientos de seguridad en la oficina?

¿Se han implementado en la oficina todos los procedimientos de seguridad?

¿En la oficina se han implementado todos los procedimientos de seguridad? (least unlikely option)