Can you have 2 conjugated verbs in one sentence?

Question

My teacher said you cannot have two conjugated verbs in a sentence... I don't know how to make this sentence otherwise -- Hice la decisión porque quise a aceptar Jesucristo en mi corazón.

i think your teacher meant you cannot have two conjugated verbs in one clause - MsConfidence, Dec 9, 2011

Thanks so much! - kwilson, Dec 9, 2011

Answer 1

yes..

recomiendo que te acuerdes temprano i recommend that you go to bed early

Please remember to use proper capitaliztion and punctuation in all of your posts. - Yeser007, Dec 9, 2011

You meant, "te acuestes ..." from acostarse. You made it "acuerdes" which is from acordar. :) - pesta, Dec 9, 2011

Answer 2

My teacher said you cannot have two conjugated verbs in a sentence

Hogwash!

Here is a link to a website which provides access to Spanish periodicals from various countries. Challenge your teacher to find a single article in any of these newspapers that does not contain at least one sentence comprised of two conjugated verbs.

As others have suggested, it might be more realistic to say that we do not usually find two conjugated verbs within the same clause. Even with this statement, however, it might be objectionable to assert that this is never the case. I can think of at least one exception where one might find two conjugated verbs within the same clause. This would be the case in the adverbial usage of the so-called impersonal hacer as it is used in certain time expressions. For instance, in the following example, both the verb "tomar" and "hacer" have been conjugated:

?Tomé la decisión hace unas semanas. ? I made the decision some months ago

Hice la decisión....

By the way, in Spanish, we do not use the verb "hacer" to say that we "made a decision." Instead, when we speak of decision making, we use either the verb "tomar" as in "tomó una decisión (he made a decision)" or the verb "llegar" as in "llegó a una decisión (he arrived at a decision)."

Hace is not a a conjugated verb. - xicotillo, Dec 10, 2011

Great, Ira, thanks! - --Mariana--, Dec 10, 2011

hace unas semanas......some weeks ago. - xicotillo, Dec 11, 2011

Answer 3

Yo he tenido que acordarme , I have had to remember. Quiero comer viendo la television , I want to eat watching tv.

"acordarme" , "comer" and "viendo" are not conjugated. The 1st two are infinitives (used as nouns) and the 3rd is a participle (used as an adverb). They lack person, number and tense. - samdie, Dec 10, 2011

Answer 4

Hi and welcome to the forum. You can do a search for this question by using the search box. Here is one of the previous thread that came up.

Can you conjugate two verbs in one sentance?

Answer 5

MsConfidence:

Did you mean " I recommend you to remember/remembering to go to bed early"?