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What's the subjunctive?

The subjunctive is not a tense, but a mood. It's used to express doubt, opinions, emotions, preferences, needs, orders and possibilities. It can also has a range of trigger phrases that come in the form of c...
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What is the past perfect/ pluscuamperfecto?

The pluscuamperfecto is a compound tense to express an event that had happened before something else in the past.it is formed with the auxillary 'haber' and the past participle of a verb. Eg- Tu habías leído...
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Solve the following pair of simultaneous equations; 10x+4y=15, 2x+y=7

So, to solve these equations, you must choose the variable you want to work with, in this case let's go with y. Make sure that you write out every step of your working so it is easy to follow and minimises m...
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What is Konjunktiv I and when do you use it?

Konjunktiv I is used for reported speech and usually crops up in journalism. For most verbs, the form will differ in the third person singular, which will instead look like the first person singular form. Th...
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Why is 'agua' feminine if you say 'el agua'?

The word 'agua' is indeed feminine, although we use the masculine article 'el' with it to avoid something called cacophony, which basically means it sounds bad or uncomfortable if we use 'la'. This applies t...
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