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Why is it mi tutora and not mí tutora?
Mi without an accent is the possessive adjective meaning my.
Mí with an accent is a pronoun meaning me, used after a preposition, as in para mí.
So here mi tutora means my tutor / my female supervisor. The word tutora is feminine because the person being referred to is a woman. If it were a man, you would say mi tutor.
What form is revisa?
Revisa is the third-person singular present indicative form of revisar.
So it matches mi tutora:
mi tutora revisa = my tutor checks / reviews
In Spanish, the present tense can often mean either:
- a habitual action: my tutor checks
- or a current action, depending on context: my tutor is checking
Does revisar mean the same as English to revise?
Not exactly. This is a common false friend.
In Spanish, revisar often means:
- to check
- to look over
- to review
- to inspect
So in this sentence, revisa is more like checks or reviews, not necessarily rewrites.
If you mean revise in the sense of study again, Spanish often uses repasar. If you mean revise a text by changing it, revisar can still work, but its meaning is broader than English revise.
What does si mean here?
Here si means whether or if in the sense of an indirect yes/no question:
- revisa si... = checks whether...
So the idea is not a condition like if this happens, then.... It means she is checking whether those words fit well.
Also, this si has no accent. That matters because:
- si = if / whether
- sí = yes or himself/herself/itself after a preposition in some contexts
Why do we repeat the article in la conjunción, la preposición y el adverbio?
Because each noun has its own gender and Spanish normally uses an article with each one here.
- la conjunción = feminine
- la preposición = feminine
- el adverbio = masculine
Since the last noun is masculine, you cannot use one single article for the whole list. Repeating the articles makes the structure clear and natural.
English often omits articles in lists more freely, but Spanish usually sounds better here with each noun introduced separately.
Why is quedan plural if la conjunción, la preposición and el adverbio are singular?
Because together they form a compound subject. Even though each noun is singular, the whole group is plural:
- la conjunción, la preposición y el adverbio = three items together
So the verb must also be plural:
- quedan bien
If there were only one item, you would use singular:
- La conjunción queda bien en el texto.
Why is it bien and not bueno or buena?
What does quedar bien mean in this sentence?
Why is it quedan and not queden?
Because after revisar si, Spanish normally uses the indicative, not the subjunctive.
This si introduces an indirect question:
That is the normal pattern, just like:
- No sé si viene. = I don’t know whether he is coming.
The subjunctive would not normally be used here. So si queden bien would sound wrong in standard Spanish.
Why do we say en el texto?
Because en shows that these language elements are being evaluated within the text.
- en el texto = in the text / within the text
The idea is that the tutor is checking whether the conjunction, preposition and adverb work properly in that written context.
A different preposition would change the meaning:
So en el texto is the natural choice here.
Is the punctuation of the list normal in Spanish?
Yes. In Spanish, items in a list are separated by commas, and normally there is no comma before the final y.
So this is standard:
- la conjunción, la preposición y el adverbio
That is different from English, where some writers use the Oxford comma before and. In standard Spanish, that final comma is usually not used in a simple list.
Why do conjunción and preposición have accent marks, but adverbio does not?
Because of Spanish stress rules.
Conjunción and preposición are stressed on the last syllable:
- con-jun-ción
- pre-po-si-ción
Words ending in n, s, or a vowel are normally stressed on the second-to-last syllable, so these words need a written accent to show that the stress is on the last one.
Adverbio is stressed naturally on the second-to-last syllable:
- ad-ver-bio
Since that follows the normal rule for a word ending in a vowel, no written accent is needed.
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