Accelerated Spanish Episode 9

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In the last couple of episodes, we've learned forms of Ceres present, past, and future.

It's time to learn several more forms now.

But you might be wondering how we can possibly have more tenses than the present, the past, and the future.

Isn't that all the types of time that there are?

Well, the tenses that we've learned so far are very handy for indicating that something definitely is or isn't true. For example, he is a tall person would be es a tall person. Or he wasn't

tall would be no era tall. But there are times in a language when you're not trying to say whether

something is or isn't the case. Instead, you're expressing a desire or intention that something be true.

For example, in English, I recommend that you be tall. When I say you be in that phrase,

I'm not telling you whether it's true or not. I'm just expressing an intention. Maybe you're

already tall and maybe you aren't, but either way, I'm recommending that you be tall. Now, that's the type of phrase

structure that I drilled into you back in episode six. I hope that it be tall, or I hope

it be tall. In CER, we have a scene that's specifically reserved for this sort of situation.

It's in the backyard of the shop where the junk from the store is thrown, including old apples and empty juice jugs.

Now, Joel isn't particularly interested in junk, but he does have a suspicion.

Maybe Serr sources some of her apples from a tree in this backyard. What Joel finds is a small tree that's completely covered in green leaves. He doesn't

see any apples on the tree, but Joel assumes that there are probably apples deep within the tree

hidden by the green leaves.

His logic is that it must be an apple tree since it's here in the backyard of an apple shop.

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