Breakdown of El periódico predice el futuro y dice que la energía de hoy es buena.
ser
to be
y
and
de
of
bueno
good
el periódico
the newspaper
hoy
today
que
that (relative pronoun, conjunction)
decir
to say / to tell
el futuro
the future
predecir
to predict
la energía
the energy
Questions & Answers about El periódico predice el futuro y dice que la energía de hoy es buena.
Why does the reported part of the sentence use es instead of shifting to a past tense like era?
Because the reporting verb, dice (says), is in the present tense. In Spanish reported speech, when the reporting verb is in the present, the tense of the original statement doesn't change. The newspaper's original quote was likely 'la energía es buena', so it stays exactly like that when we report it.
Are predice and dice related verbs?
Yes! Predecir (to predict) is just the prefix pre- added to decir (to say or tell). Because they are related, predecir follows the exact same irregular vowel-change pattern in the present tense as decir, changing the e to an i for the he/she/it form (predice).
Why is 'today's energy' translated as la energía de hoy?
Why do we use es instead of está for buena here?
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