Possesive adjectives - long and short
Working through the lesson on possessive adjectives in the grammer section has me confused. An example sentence is:
"Son los perros "de Elsa y Elisa"
and the exercise is to replace the phrase in quotes with the correct possesive adjective. The right answer as given is:
Son los perros suyos.
But one of the choices is "sus". Wouldn't "Son sus perros" also be correct? What am I missing here? Thanks.
3 Answers
It's correct also. To me, it souns more natural to say "son sus perros". "Son los perros suyos" stresses their owning of the dogs. If you want to omit the dogs, you can say "son los suyos", and here " los suyos" is a pronoun
Yes! You are correct, but your optional answer doesn't do exactly what they're asking. You are correct, but answered a slightly different cuestion than asked, that's all.
thought it must be something like that, but I don't understand the distinction. Can you say what is being asked, and what question "Option B" answers -
Well, I don´t have the assigment here of course, but given that you said your response with sus was marked wrong, it pretty much means they had to have been going for a form of suyos.
It´s not so much a distinction as just a matter of which form the exercize was trying to induce you to practice. I don´t think you´re wrong, it´s just a matter scemantics and what response they were trying to elicit.
If I¨m told to describe the height of a 1 meter long object in cm. and I instead say it´s 1000mm, I´m not wrong, but, if the question states mm then I didn´t provide the desired repsonse.
