Píldora B1: duración en festivos con hace, llevar, desde, quedan
Píldora gramatical: expresar duración con hacer/llevar aplicadas a festivos y reuniones familiares.
DannisCompleta: ___ dos años que no paso la Nochebuena en casa.
Correct: 0/9
Hints for this Quiz
Think of the pattern: "Hace + periodo + que + (no) + verbo".
In Spanish, duration with a negation is often expressed with the structure "Hace + period + que + negation": "Hace dos años que no paso…". "Desde hace" requires a continuation without "que", and "Llevo" needs a gerund: "Llevo dos años sin pasar…" (a different structure).
"Llevar" + gerund (ando/iendo) = "have already been doing something for some time".
"Llevar + gerundio" expresses the duration of an ongoing action: "llevamos preparando". The participle "preparado" is incorrect here, and "hemos llevado preparando" is an incorrect combination of tenses.
Date/year → "desde". Period ("dos años") → "desde hace".
"Desde" is used with a starting point (date/moment): "Desde 2019…". "Desde hace" goes before a period ("Desde hace dos años…"). "Hace" without "que" is not used directly before a date.
With a period of time, always "desde hace + periodo".
The correct form is "desde hace + periodo": "No vemos a los abuelos desde hace dos meses". The first sentence leaves out "hace"; the third one is grammatically incorrect.
Look at the number: "dos días" → "quedan".
"Quedar" agrees with the subject "dos días" (plural): "quedan". Progressive forms are not used here.
"Llevar + periodo + gerundio": the period goes without "desde".
After "llevar" we indicate the period directly: "Llevan dos horas…". "Desde dos horas" is not used; "dos horas que" is an incorrect structure.
Continue the question with the same verb: "llevar" + period.
The answer follows the pattern "Llevar + periodo": "Llevo tres años aquí". With "Hace" you would need "Hace tres años que…".
Look for the structure with "Hace… que…" to talk about duration in the past with a negation.
The correct model is "Hace + periodo + que + (no) + verbo". The first sentence is wrong without "desde"/"que"; the third mixes "llevar" and "que" incorrectly.
We talk about the time left until an event with "Quedan…".
To talk about the remaining time until an event, we use "Quedan + periodo": "Quedan pocos días (para Nochevieja)".
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