Word order after que
In the 'irritation' example there is the setence: "Estaba haciendo lo posible por que no se me notara la irritación que me producía su arrogancia."
I'm wondering about "que me producía su arrogancia." - why is the subject after the vowel here? I've heard that after prepositions of place, indeterminate nouns and adverbs this can happen but I don't really understand in this example.
1 Answer
It depends on the emphasis you want to give, but it is quite common to use ovs word order- object verb subject- in Spanish. It has nothing to do with the que that introduces the clause.
No me gusta tu actitud.—tu actitud is the subject
No me importa lo que suceda- the phrase “lo que suceda” is the subject.
Se prohíbe fumar- the infinitive fumar is the subject (and pronominal object).
So this is a common enough word order to get used to, even if we don’t use it in English. Spanish is much more free with word order.
