

These results are consistent with hypotheses that recognize that difficulty stems from morphology. The results show variation by native speakers in their use of the subjunctive, while Spanish learners had difficulty with the morphology, but not with the semantics or pragmatics. Save for Iater Preview and detaiIs Files included ( 1 ) docx, 21 KB The Pluperfect Tense About this resource Info Created: Updated: docx, 21 KB The Pluperfect Tense Report a problem This resource is designed for UK teachers.Therefore, you mostIy will use th pluperfect subjunctive t talk abut things that hypotheticaIly had happened, my have happened, r should.

Dodson at Moorlands VI Form College for providing these fantastic Beginners Spanish PowerPoint Presentations. Forty-five participants ( n=24 adult Spanish learners and n=21 native speakers) completed a proficiency test and four linguistic tasks. Spanish Pluperfect Subjunctive Tense.doc. This study aims to demonstrate what is easier and what is more difficult to acquire, as well as what the results can tell us in terms of interfaces.

And on the other hand, we can express hypothetical actions that might have happened in the past in different circumstances. Firstly, in subordinate clauses in order to express real actions that happened before another one in the past. The main purpose of this study is to investigate the acquisition of the Spanish pluperfect subjunctive in conditional clauses. In general, we can say that the pluperfect subjunctive in Spanish is used in two ways. Dudo que mis amigos (ganar) el partido de ftbol. Si (comprar / nosotros) los boletos, no tendramos que hacer esta fila ahora. There is a strong line of research on mood selection of the Spanish subjunctive (e.g., relative, argument, and adverbial clauses), but little attention has been paid to the Spanish pluperfect subjunctive in second language (L2) acquisition. Conjugate the verbs in pluperfect subjunctive mood in Spanish by using the auxiliary haber + the past participle of the verb in Spanish.
