afirmativas o negativas help please.

Question

I'm not sure my sentence composition and my verb tense but I'm sure that I used the correct negative form. May you kindly evaluate my overall work, I provided alternative answers I felt I can say it many ways but I'm not sure which one the most correct or the better way to say it...............................................................................

1. ¿No has aprendido nada sobre la emigración? Mi respuesta: Sí me he aprendido algo sobre la emigración

2. ¿Conoces algún lugar donde no haya inmigrantes? Mi respuesta: No, yo no conozco a ninguno lugar donde no haya inmigrantes Alternativa: a ninguno conocido de lugar donde no haya inmigrantes

3. ¿Conoces a alguien que sea monolingüe? Mi respuesta: No, yo no conozco a nadie que sea monolingüe. Otra respuesta: No, yo no conocido a nadie que sea monolingüe.

4. ¿Nunca vas solo al cine? Mi respuesta: No jamás voy solo al cine. Alternativa: No jamás había ido solo al cine. Otra alternativa: No, Nunca voy solo al cine.

5. ¿Quieres té o café? Mi respuesta: No, no quiero ni café ni té.

Answer 1

1 Si, he aprendido algo sobre emigración

2 no, yo no conozco ningún lugar donde no haya emigrantes

In the rest of yours ansewers, you did it very well

Saludos desde México

(for the rest of your answers, you did very well) :) - Kiwi-Girl, May 7, 2012

Answer 2

Hi Mavie, it looks like you've done very well - I'm not a native speaker so I would wait for confirmation but in the mean time here are a couple of suggestions:

1) Sí´, he aprendido mucho sobre la emigración. - because you have used nada 'anything' in the first one to me, putting 'a lot' in the second one sounds like a good answer but that could just be a personal thing. You don't need the 'me'. But I was wondering if the exercise is about making negative sentences if you were meant to answer - no, no he aprendido mucho ....

2) ningun - no o for the first one, ninguno becomes ningun before a sing masc noun. Also I would remove your alternative suggestion as it is incorrect.

3) good

4) I would remove the alternative - see how it sounds in English - Don't you ever go alone to the movies? No I had never gone .... - the tenses don't match.

5) good

Overall, as far as I can see great work and I'm sure someone else will come along to make sure for you

Gracias. - mavietriste, May 7, 2012

Answer 3

This is really good! In addition to Kiwi_Girl's great suggestions, I would just say that in number two your first sentence shouldn't have "a...lugar" because we only use the "personal a" when it's referring to a person. For example, you could say "No conozo a ninguna actriz." In number four, you don't need "no jamás" as just one thing together, but you could say it with a comma inserted: "No, jamás (nunca) voy al cine." Great job!

But you don't need to believe everything I say because I'm not a native speaker either. :) - LaPiedraAlegre, May 6, 2012