Using todos with verbs

Using todos with verbs
 

Hi,

I've been looking for a spanish forum to get some help and found you guys.
You'd think that Pimsleur would have a place to ask questions, but they don't. I'm on lesson 19 of Pimsleur Spanish and it confused me about using todos. The phrase was:

everyone is going to eat together

And they translated to:

todos van a comer juntos

Then the second phrase was:

all of us eat meat

And they translated that to:

todos comemos carne


So why in the first phrase did the use "van", but in the second they used "comemos". I would think it should be "van/comen" or "vamos/comemos". The tense changed and I don't know why.

Thanks for any help you can give me.

Jon

The reason for the person change was because the first sentence didn't include the speaker and the second one did (all of us).

Grammatically speaking, you have a plural third-person subject pronoun (all are going ...) in the first sentence, and a plural first-person subject pronoun (all of us) in the second sentence. The verb has to agree in person and number with the subject.

Thank you for the explanation. Learning is hard :)