Change sentence to the preterite tense
Antonio le de Un be so a su madras
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Can you check your sentence? Is it - Antonio le dé un beso a su madre?
However, it is odd because I assume someone is ordering A to kiss his mum and I assume they would use 'tu' but this maybe different in Mexico where usted is used more often.
However, if it is just a statement of fact it would be Antonio le da un beso a su madre.( A gives his mum a kiss)
If it is the second one look up how to conjugate dar in the preterite and change da to the third person single.
The second option makes more sense as if it was an order you would need a sentence like he told A to kiss his mother.
Your Spanish level would really help people answering you.
No I am not telling you the conjugation of dar, it is irregular and you will learn by looking it up. I use Word reference but this site also has the information.
Mardle has repaired the sentence very well, "Antonio le dé un beso a su madre", but I see nothing odd about it if you consider that many sentences in language textbooks are nonsensical anyway. This sentence would be perfect as subjunctive usage if it had some context, ie: Al llegar a casa más vale que Antonio le dé un beso a su madre que a su perro.
However, in the end it´s probably just another textbook error that should have da rather than dé in a very simple sentence.
For the preterite, it would be:
"Antonio le dio un beso a su madre."
