Breakdown of Aveva molta fretta, ha accelerato troppo e lo hanno bocciato.
e
and
troppo
too, too much, too many
molto
a lot of / much
lo
him/it (direct object)
bocciare
to fail (someone / a test)
accelerare
to accelerate
avere fretta
to be in a hurry
Questions & Answers about Aveva molta fretta, ha accelerato troppo e lo hanno bocciato.
Why is Aveva in the imperfetto but the other verbs are in the passato prossimo?
Aveva describes a continuous state or background situation in the past (he was in a hurry). The passato prossimo verbs ha accelerato (he accelerated) and hanno bocciato (they failed him) describe specific, completed events that happened during that state.
Who is the subject of hanno bocciato?
Why does the sentence use molta fretta instead of molto fretta?
Could we write l'hanno bocciato instead of lo hanno bocciato?
Yes! The direct object pronoun lo (him) often drops its vowel and takes an apostrophe before the auxiliary verb hanno. Both lo hanno bocciato and l'hanno bocciato are perfectly correct and natural.
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