“carry implicit”, agreement

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2024-01-29 09:23:30

In constructions have/carry/bringr + participle, like carry o bring riggedit is recommended that the participle agree in gender and number with what it refers to, not with the subject.

However, it is common to find phrases in the media like these: “A campaign slogan that implicitly carries a complaint against the governor of Jujuy”, “What are the complications that insomnia brings” or “The message has a signed letter attached.” ».

As explained by the New grammar of the Spanish languageverbs carry, bring or have can be constructed followed by a participlewhich usually expresses contact or union (rigged, attached, associated…) or indicates that something is part of something else (included, implicit, incorporated, integrated…).

In this type of structures you have to differentiateon the one hand, the subject of prayer, that agrees with the verb, y, for another, that which is attached to the subject or related to it (i.e. what is implied/coupled/included). So, it is recommended that the participle agrees in gender and number with the object to which it alludes: “Negotiations imply debate”, not “Negotiations imply debate.”

In this way, in the initial examples, it would have been more appropriate to write “A campaign slogan that implicitly carries a complaint against the governor of Jujuy”, “What are the complications that insomnia brings” and “The message has a letter attached.” signed.

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