Breakdown of El conductor sale temprano para evitar el tráfico.
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Sale is the third-person singular form of the present indicative of salir (“to leave” or “to go out”).
– yo salgo
– tú sales
– él/ella sale
Here sale is intransitive and is directly modified by the adverb temprano (“early”). You only add a preposition like de if you want to specify origin:
– Sale de casa temprano. (“He leaves home early.”)
But if you only mention when he leaves, you say:
– Sale temprano.
Para + infinitive expresses purpose (“in order to…”).
– El conductor sale temprano para evitar el tráfico.
If you used por here, it would sound like “because of avoiding,” which isn’t idiomatic for stating a goal.
When the subject of both verbs is the same (here, el conductor), you use para + infinitive. If you had two different subjects you’d use para que + subjunctive:
– Para que ella evite el tráfico, yo salgo temprano.
– conductor: con-duc-TOR (stress on the last syllable; no accent needed because it ends in r).
– tráfico: TRA-fi-co (stress on the antepenultimate syllable; all esdrújulas carry an accent, hence tráfico).