Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader

by Ernesto Nelson

Chapter Footnotes:

[1] At the beginning of a clause pues is used to indicate some relation between what has just been said and what is about to be said.

[2] no pocas, not a few. VARIANTS: Muchas, centenares, una gran cantidad.

[3] vendiendo, by selling. Compare with gerund I, 32.

[4] ¿dónde los compra Ud.? Note the accent. VARIANT: ¿A dónde va Ud. a comprarlos? Note that the form a dónde is used with verbs denoting direction. Compare with adonde.

[5] habrá que. See I, 12.

[6] hubiera que. See preceding note.

[7] si... hubiera que... Ud. acudiría a. Note the agreement of the imperfect subjunctive and the conditional.

[8] todo lo que se refiere a, everything in the line of.

[9] Con algunas diferencias. VARIANT: Si se exceptúan algunos casos.