How to handl two verbs in a sentence
In a two verb subjunctive sentence which vers gets conjugated or do both have to?
1 Answer
There are a lot of possible sentence possibilities with two verbs.
Generally there is one conjugated verb per clause, but sentences can have multiple clauses. Past participles and gerundios can follow a conjugated verb and not be considered "conjugated" per se.
The conjugated verb is the main one relating to the subject of the clause.
Quiero hacer algo. I want to do something. Quiero conjugated, hacer not.
Quiero que hagas algo. I want that you do something- I want you to do something in normal English. The que makes what follows a separate clause that describes the object of quiero. Here hagas is a subjunctive conjugation.
Las cosas que (él) quería eran rojas. The things he wanted were red. It looks like two conjugated verbs in a row, but if you go: Las cosas (que (él) quería) eran rojas. Here que (él) quería is an adjectival clause that qualifies las cosas, which is the subject of eran.
There are many other patterns that could be made.
Typically in a sentence with something that would "trigger" the subjunctive, if the subject does not change, an infinitive is used (and not subjunctive) , as I did in the first sentence, if the subject changes then a que clause with subjunctive is needed- like in y second. This is not always the case though.
In a sentence with two separate clauses, with subjunctive, both are generally conjugated and the subjunctive is the one that follows the "trigger"- often que, but can be a wide variety of other things.
