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- "Nunca he caminado a tu casa."
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In Russia, we are never tought to use such a word order in English, so it sounds weird to me. The structure is like in a question. Is it classical grammar or slang?
I’m from Russia too. Whoever taught you English never told you about inversion (probably because it is not taught until the student reaches the advanced level). Inversion is widely used for emphasis in sentences starting with “Never”, “Not only”, “No sooner”, “Neither”, “Nor”, “Little”, “Few”, “Hardly” and “Seldom”. E.g. “Little does he know about English grammar”.
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The correct answer is not in the choices. The program will not let me move on and yet there is not a way to get the answer right. Frustrating!
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The correct answer, "caminado," does not appear; numbers 5 and 6 are missing. It is impossible to answer this correctly, so I can not complete the lesson.
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Currently, the correct answer (caminado) is not among the given choices (1 caminábamos 2 caminar 3 caminas 4 camino 5 camina 6 caminabas) therefore we cannot now answer correctly, which is frustrating. I think you should correct this error as soon as possible. Thank you.
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i know - i have walked- correct is - he caminado, but in my test no es this possibility...i cannot help myself
Because "he" is the past tense of the first-person conjugation of Haber, so it implies "I" - if they had said "ha caminado" then it would have implied he/she/it has walked. It might have helped if DL had given a little rundown on this construction before the lessons lesson quizes started, but such is DL. This is a pretty good rundown: http://www.studyspanish.com/lessons/presperfect.htm
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I know what you mean. How about thinking 'Blooming changes' therefore the one that means change has a b in it and 'nice walk' for the n of the one that means walk?
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It's not the conjugation, it's the the verbs themselves that mess me up. I guess just more practice using both of them will help!
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Davide, "I have never walked to your house; the path goes through the woods where a BIG, BAD WOLF lives!"
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Please excuse me for adding an outside opinion. I am Canadian, and proper English grammar is a hobby of mine. I think what everyone is overlooking is that the sentence forms and structures that do or do not sound "right" or "natural" almost always will depend on the English we are accustomed to hearing. Mr. Smith, my English Grammar instructor from back in the Stone Age, would have said this: "I never have walked to your house." is correct. "Never have I walked to your house." also is correct, but less common, and a technically weaker structure. "I have never walked to your house." also is acceptable, but an even weaker structure. He probably would have gone on to say that it is acceptable only due to the pressure of the multitudes who habitually abuse the language, but it was at about that part of the lecture that I usually started to feel distracted, or perhaps snore very lightly. But he wasn't wrong.
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Jcoupemk2, because the lesson is about using present participle, so Duo wants you to use the auxiliary verb with the past (preterite) conjugated verb: I have knitted a sweater; he has picked a winning ticket before; she has not talked to the lawyer, etc.
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On this one, 10 choices are given but numbers 5 & 6, one of which is "caminado" are cut off so I cannot choose the right answer. Arrgh, and DL won't let me proceed and won't rephrase the question
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again, it does not give me "caminado" as an option. I even ticked thru all the choices given and tried to "skip",,,each time, the green line regressed which means I will never be able to complete this exercise.
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By archaic- do mean spoken by someone over 50? I think it"s a great word order. It adds more emphasis to the "Never".