What am I missing here?

Question

The sentence given in the quiz is:

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p>Creo que mis padres (ir) a venir.

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p>A.Van

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p>B. Vayan

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p>I chose the subjunctive "vayan" and it was marked wrong with this explanation:

Blockquote Incorrect! Keep practicing. "Creo que" is used to express a belief in the veracity of the statement that follows; therefore, "ir" appears in the subjunctive.

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p>So the response seems to tell me that the sentence requires the subjunctive. Am I not understanding this? If it "appears in the subjunctive" - doesn't that mean that the sentence requires the subjunctive? Sorry I don't know how to format better.

"No creer que" is followed by the Subjunctive, but "creer que" is not. I agree with rogspax, talk to your teacher about it and this web site. - Jubilado, Oct 20, 2013

Answer 1

I believe their answer is right (in short, that creo que is generally followed by the indicative) but that they got the explaination of their answer wrong, and accidentally wrote subjunctive when they meant indicative. It is clearly not self-consistent.

So, this all should be more like:

Creo que mis padres van a venir.

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and, .

"Creo que" is used to express a belief in the veracity of the statement that follows; therefore, "ir" appears in the indicative.

Thanks for your help. I originally thought that however, the exact same explanation came up on yet another sentence when I chose the subjunctive "vaya" to follow another Yo creo clause. So when it came up again the second time, I was really confused - sgeorgiadis, Oct 20, 2013