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8. Usualmente, ¿adónde vas después de las clases?<br />

9. Generalmente, ¿a qué hora sales de casa por la mañana?<br />

10. ¿Qué haces cuando alguien te dice una mentira?<br />

Phrases with two verbs—querer, poder, deber<br />

When two verbs operate together to form a single idea, the fi rst verb is conjugated and the second<br />

verb remains in its infi nitive form, as when a conjugated form of tener que infinitive expresses<br />

obligation (Chapter 4).<br />

Another way to look at this is to see that the fi rst verb is the real action, while the second verb<br />

is proposed action. Consider the sentence, “I want to play the violin.” Th e only thing that’s really<br />

happening in this sentence is “wanting”; “playing” is merely a proposal, not the reality.<br />

In the section on regular -er verbs in Chapter 1, you learned that deber means “to owe.”<br />

When directly followed by another verb, however, deber means “ought,” as in “I ought to study”<br />

(also translated as “I should study”). Querer, meaning “to want,” and poder, meaning “to be able<br />

to, can,” are also frequently used as the fi rst verb in phrases with two verbs.<br />

EJERCICIO<br />

6·3<br />

Debo salir de la ofi cina. I ought to leave the offi ce.<br />

Podemos ver la luz. We can see the light.<br />

¿Puedes nadar bien? Can you swim well?<br />

¿Queréis cenar ahora? Do you want to eat dinner now?<br />

Ella quiere ser lingüista. She wants to be a linguist.<br />

Ellos no deben decirnos nada. Th ey shouldn’t tell us anything.<br />

Answer each of the following questions with a <strong>com</strong>plete sentence in the present tense.<br />

1. ¿Qué puedes hacer muy bien?<br />

2. ¿Qué es lo que no puedes hacer?<br />

3. ¿Qué quieres hacer mañana?<br />

4. ¿Qué debes hacer cada día?<br />

5. ¿Qué es lo que no debes hacer en la casa?<br />

6. ¿Qué puede hacer Barbra Streisand?<br />

7. ¿Qué puede hacer Isaac Stern?<br />

8. ¿Qué puede hacer Ted Williams?<br />

9. ¿Qué puede hacer Julia Child?<br />

Common irregular verbs 49

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