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September 02, 2021, 07:35 PM
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Sentence Structure
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 
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September 02, 2021, 08:32 PM
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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. 
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September 02, 2021, 08:41 PM
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Angelica,
This is good news. I think that I am devloping some linguistic instincts in Spanish. Dean
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September 04, 2021, 06:46 PM
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That's indeed great news. Just be confident.
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