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Is this good idiomatic Spanish? Sólo debemos hacer este gesto si la persona necesita ser impulsada. (We should only make this gesture if the person needs to be prompted.)

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Es gramaticalmente correcto y se entiende perfectamente. También podría ser traducido de una forma menos literal, como: " Solo deberíamos actuar si la persona necesita ayuda "
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Quisiera ayudarte pero necesito más contexto... ¿A qué te refieres con "idiomatic"? No es "idiom", no? La frase me suena a nada
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No, that's not idiomatic. It lacks context, but nobody would say "necesita ser impulsada" as a translation for "needs to be prompted". I can't give you any alternative, more context is needed. If you provide the following or the previous sentence I might be able to help you better, sorry. As a side note, "sólo" is no longer written with an orthographical accent, although it is tolerated by the Real Academia Española in some phrases where it can lead to ambiguity - that's not the case with your sentence. You can only use "sólo" in sentences such as "Me tomé un café solo" vs "Me tomé un café sólo" (I had a black coffee vs I only had a coffee). When it's clear that "sólo" means "only" no orthographical accent should be used.
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Sólo debemos hacer este gesto si la persona necesita ser IMPULSADA. gramaticalmente está correctamente escrita pero cuando se habla de IMPULSAR a una persona, La frase no permite saber si es una acción literal o figurativa, para eso necesita UN COMPLEMENTO directo.... Acá le dejo un link que le puede ayudar, Señor Noel https://www.definicionabc.com/general/oraciones-copulativas-predicativas.php

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