Subjunctive in adjective clause practice "F"

[laepelba]

I found these exercises online, but there are no answers available. My answers are given in BOLD font. Please check to see if my answers are correct. Thank you for any corrections that you might be able to give me. :) (I am taking advantage of a couple of laid back days before the big rush at work over the next month and a half....)

Directions: Write the sentence using indicative in the main clause and subjunctive in the subordinate clause.

1. tú / querer un apartamento / que / tener dos baños
Quieres un apartamento que tenga dos baños.

2. Mateo / necesitar un apartamento / donde / haber aire acondicionado
Mateo necesita un apartamento donde haya aire acondicionado.

3. Javier y yo / buscar un apartamento / que / estar cerca de la universidad
Javier y yo buscamos un apartamento que esté cerca de la universidad.

4. Uds. / necesitar un apartamento / que / no costar un ojo de la cara (an arm and a leg)
Uds. necesitan un apartamento que no cueste un ojo de la cara.

5. yo / querer un apartamento / que / no necesitar renovación
Quiero un apartamento que no necesite renovación.

6. Pepe y Leo / desear un apartamento / que / ser moderno y fácil de limpiar
Pepe y Leo desean un apartamento que sea moderno y fácil de limpiar.

7. Octavio / buscar un apartamento / que / dar a una calle tranquila
Octavio busca un apartamento que dé a una calle tranquila. <<-- I don't understand this use of "dar"...

8. Ud. / necesitar un apartamento / donde / caber todos los amigos
Ud. necesita un apartamento donde quepa todos los amigos.

[AngelicaDeAlquezar]

Fine job, Lou Ann!

8. ...un apartamento donde quepan todos los amigos. (Your subject for the verb is "todos los amigos".)

As for "dar a", when you're talking about a path, a window, a part of the house, etc., can mean "to lead to" or "to have a view toward" a place.

La ventana da al jardín. -> The window has a view of the garden.
Esa puerta da a la calle. -> The door leads you to the street.
Nuestra calle da al parque. -> The street leads toward the park.

Octavio busca un apartamento que dé a una calle tranquila. -> He wants an appartment whose front side will be placed over a quiet street.

[laepelba]

Thanks, Malila!! DOH!! I was so totally proud of myself for remembering the irregular 1st person indicative for caber that I forgot what to make it correspond to. :doh:

Thank you, also, for the examples of that use of "dar". Very helpful!! :rose:

[chileno]

Fine job, Lou Ann!

8. ...un apartamento donde quepan todos los amigos. (Your subject for the verb is "todos los amigos".)



¿No se supone que tiene que ser "cupieran" en vez de "quepan"?

[laepelba]

¿No se supone que tiene que ser "cupieran" en vez de "quepan"?

But the main clause is in the present, and I'm not sure that a past tense subjunctive would work in the subordinate clause....?? Do you think?

Actually, the question that I have been noodling with since first looking at that correction is as follows: Does "caber" refer to the apartment (The apartment fits all of those people...) or does it refer to the people/objects within (Those people fit into the apartment...)? Apparently it's that the people fit into the apartment, right?

[chileno]

But the main clause is in the present, and I'm not sure that a past tense subjunctive would work in the subordinate clause....?? Do you think?

Actually, the question that I have been noodling with since first looking at that correction is as follows: Does "caber" refer to the apartment (The apartment fits all of those people...) or does it refer to the people/objects within (Those people fit into the apartment...)? Apparently it's that the people fit into the apartment, right?

Right, right!

I didn't really read the whole thing.... sorry.

You are getting good at this. :)

[laepelba]

I think I mentioned in a different thread that there are some things in this subjunctive workbook that I am finding inadequate (their treatment of the use of subjunctive in adjective phrases, for one ... and I've really had to look hard all over the internet for better resources on that subject...). But the one thing that the author drills into over and over again is the sequence of tenses ... because in English we're not as rigid with that ... we can say "I looked for a car that has two doors" and it's perfectly acceptable. But in Spanish you HAVE to say "busqué un coche que tuviera dos puertas". So many of the exercises in the book stress (over and over) the sequence of the tenses...... Thanks!! I'm working hard!! :)