Sentence Structure

deandddd · #1 September 02, 2021, 07:35 PM

People,

I ran across the following sentence a while ago: "Su tía compró el anel por él, para que le diera a su novia".

But I keep getting the feeling that the object could be mentioned in the second half of the sentence, after the comma. For example: "Su tía compró el anillo porél, para que "se lo" diera a su novia".

Is my modification natural?

Is it correct?

Too wordy?

Dean

**AngelicaDeAlquezar** · #2 September 02, 2021, 08:32 PM

You're right. "Se lo" would make the sentence much better.
Sometimes colloquial speech "saves" some words, and the resulting sentences are not what we are taught in grammar.

deandddd · #3 September 02, 2021, 08:41 PM

Angelica,

This is good news. I think that I am devloping some linguistic instincts in Spanish.

Dean

**AngelicaDeAlquezar** · #4 September 04, 2021, 06:46 PM

That's indeed great news. Just be confident.

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