An expression that reveals the nature of living in parts of Latin America where it’s not uncommon for things to break down,lo atamos con alambremeans to bodge something, or to fix it temporarily, something you might find yourself doing at least once during your stay. 8. "Échale ganas!
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Perfect constructionsare used to express that an action began in the past and has continued happening up until the present (or the moment indicated if you’re speaking in the past or the future). In English, thepresent perfectwould be, “Erinhas swumevery day this summer.” In Spanish,“E...
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whether Schnoebelen’s observation about insubordinate constructions also applies to this Spanish construction. In order to test this hypothesis, we performed a functional discourse analysis of more than 2000 concordances (and their extended contexts) in Mark Davies’Corpus del Españoland theReal ...
not by victories in the field but by political developments in the capitals of the combatants. It is a curious fact that the fate of Spain was decided principally by campaigns in the Low Countries or on the Danube, with very little regard to what was actually happening on theIberian ...