Breakdown of Ellos habían oído un rumor muy chocante y desagradable.
y
and
un
a, an (masculine)
ellos
they
muy
very
Questions & Answers about Ellos habían oído un rumor muy chocante y desagradable.
How could we express the core idea of this sentence using resultar, the focus of this lesson?
You could say, El rumor les resultó muy chocante y desagradable (The rumor proved/turned out to be very shocking and unpleasant to them). Here, resultar acts as a subjective evaluative pseudo-copulative verb—a fancy way of saying it links the subject (el rumor) to its descriptive adjectives while showing their subjective reaction (les) to it.
Both chocante and desagradable are adjectives derived from verbs. How does this word formation work?
Why use the past perfect habían oído here instead of the simple past oyeron?
Why does the past participle oído have an accent mark on the ?