No niegan que+ subjuntivo ???
Hi,
Could someone please explain this for me please:
"The fans don't deny that their team is in problems".
Los fanáticos no niegan que su equipo esté en problemas.
If the fans "don't deny" then why is estar in the subjunctive form??
I'm reading a new book called demystifying the subjunctive and it doesn't explain this very well.
Many thanks
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Hi Johnny. The reason is that "esté" refers to the team, not to the fanatics, the reader (you) does of subject opposite to the team and therefore you can consider that the team should have problems or not, independently about what the fanatics think. In any case, as many "esté" as "está" are correct forms in this phrase. I hope I helped. Regards.
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ok thanks. I have searched on Amazon and based on the book you had mentioned I have found another book called Demystifying Spanish Grammar so I may start with that one.
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No problem, they've got a youtube channel also which is called lightspeedspanish & another book called Victors Adventures in Spain (Las aventuras de Victor en españa) both books are on amazon.
The subjunctive book is quite meaty it's got about 280 pages of text and lots of exercises. They focus on showing patterns with the subjunctive and triggers for its usage. I've read/ done about a third of it so far. It is quite exhausting. The book came out on the 29th and I'm determined to be the first reviewer on amazon :)
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I wanted to say thanks for mentioning...
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Hi,
that for mentioning a book concerning subjunctive. It seems it may be very useful.
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