please help with sentence structure
Describe what you or your friends are looking for by inserting the adjectives given in parentheses in their proper position in these sentences. Be sure that the adjectives agree with the nouns they modify.
MODELO: Ana busca coche. (italiano, otro) ? Ana busca otro coche italiano.
Paco busca los bolígrafos. (francés, otro)
I have tried many variations of the statement. Too many to remember. I tried plural and singular of frances. I tried "el frances". I've tried putting the words in different orders. I know I'm missing something simple. I've already turned it in. I would like to see the answer so I know what I did wrong. here is my latest (and last) attempt.
Paco busca otros los bolígrafos franceses.
I had no trouble with the rest of the homework, just this one.
1 Answer
This is a strange sentence (Paco is looking for the ball point pens) then your text or teacher wants you to essentially make it: Paco is looking for other French ball point pens. No wonder you're confused! So it seems to me that the point is to place one adjective before the noun it modifies and the second adjective after it and make sure they agree in gender and number. So what you do is drop the definite article los knowing that the noun is masculine plural, therefore otro becomes otros and goes before the noun (as it always does) and francés becomes franceses and goes after it (noticing that francés because it does not end in -o or a takes the plural form with the ending -es regardless of the gender of the noun, A N D francés also loses the written accent because it is not needed). Your try was very close to the correct answer and I hope you have understood my grammatical explanation.
