Some grammar stuff still giving me a little trouble.

Question

Just some grammar stuff I'm still fuzzy on.

Are my pronouns correct? Also in the sentence bellow is " I " the subject?

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I showed them what they needed to do. But they didn’t do it.

Les mostré enlo que son necesitamos necesitan a hacer. Pero no lo hicieron.

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And lastly when you use se instead of le or les i.e se lo di ayer. What do you call that? Or is it just an indirect object pronoun?

Answer 1

Yes, se is just an i.o.p. when there is an 3rd person i.o.p. and 3rd person d.o.p. together.

I=subject

showed=past tense verb

them i.o.p.

what they needed to do=d.o=. noun phrase

Les mostré lo que necesitan hacer.

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but=emphatic conjunction

they= implied subject

did not do=negative past tense verb

it (what they needed to do)=lo=d.o.

Pero no lo hicieron.

Thanks Que. - teasip, Nov 14, 2011

Fantastic post -- left little for doubt!! :-> - territurtle, Nov 14, 2011

Answer 2

hey i still have trouble to but i see one problem, necesitamos is the wrong conjugation. amos ending refer to "we" not "they". other than that it looks good to me but you should probably wait for another proof reader to confirm it.

Gracias dashea - teasip, Nov 14, 2011

Good post, but we upper. case our "I"s on this site, and avoid other forms of "txt speak," as many of our members are learning English. Thanks!! - territurtle, Nov 14, 2011