tener que infinitive verb
why is the word que put between the verb tener and the infinitive verb??? can't you just leave it out?
3 Answers
No, you can't leave it out. Writing "tengo escribir" would be like saying "I have write." It just doesn't work.
I'm sorry I can't explain to you exactly why grammatically you have to write "que," but hopefully someone will come along and be able to do that for you and me : )
Tener que = to have to, if you drop the que or the to, it wouldn't make sense, it's a grammatical construction.
If you ask me: can't you just leave que out? I should ask you: can´t you leave "to" out after "have" followed by a verb? Would you have a answer?
The same happens with Spanish. I remember when I started learning English I used to do similar questions. This is the frecuent question that I used to do:
Why should I write -ing after like when it´s a verb?
The answer is simple each language has its own grammatical construction and if you leave any word out, so that sentence many times doesn´t make sense. We learn practicing every day and there are many ways to say the same phrase.
