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Él siguió explicando la táctica en el vestuario.

Él siguió explicando la táctica en el vestuario.
He kept explaining the tactic in the locker room.
From Lesson 287:Causative verbs (hacer, dejar)·Spanish (Latin America)

Breakdown of Él siguió explicando la táctica en el vestuario.

él
he
en
in / on / at
explicar
to explain
seguir
to continue
el vestuario
locker room
la táctica
tactic

Questions & Answers about Él siguió explicando la táctica en el vestuario.

Why does this sentence use the gerund explicando instead of an infinitive?
In your current lesson, you are seeing verbs like hacer and dejar paired with an infinitive (for example, lo hizo explicar). However, the verb seguir follows a different rule. To say someone "kept doing" or "continued doing" something, you must use seguir followed by a gerund (the -ando or -iendo form). That is why we use siguió explicando here.
Why is the verb spelled siguió instead of seguió?
The verb seguir has a stem change in the preterite (past) tense. In the third-person forms (he, she, you formal, and they), the e in the stem changes to an i. This gives us siguió for "he kept" instead of following the regular conjugation pattern.
Could I say continuó explicando to mean the same thing?
Yes, absolutely. Both seguir and continuar can be followed by a gerund to mean "to keep doing" or "to continue doing" an action. Siguió explicando is simply a very common, natural choice in everyday conversational Spanish.
Does vestuario only mean locker room?
Vestuario is the standard word for a sports locker room or changing room, but it is also used for a theater dressing room or even to refer to a person's wardrobe or clothing collection. Depending on the country, especially in places like Mexico, you might also hear los vestidores used for a locker room.

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