Phrase · 📰 Hedged reporting
Concluida la reunión, los delegados firmaron un comunicado conjunto.
Once the meeting was over, the delegates signed a joint statement.
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Why every word is where it is
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- Concluida → reunión: concluida agrees with la reunión
- firmaron → delegados: firmaron agrees with los delegados
- conjunto → comunicado: conjunto agrees with comunicado
Why it's built this way
The notes match the numbers above.
- 1Absolute participle: Concluida la reunión = once the meeting was over. The participle comes first and agrees with reunión. Non-finite clauses: infinitive, gerund and participle constructions →
- 2The participle clause has its own subject, different from the main one, and states what happened first. Gerunds and participles at C2 →
- 3un comunicado conjunto = a joint statement; conjunto agrees with comunicado.
Variations
- Una vez concluida la reunión, los delegados firmaron un comunicado conjunto.
- Al terminar la reunión, los delegados firmaron un comunicado conjunto.
- Tras la reunión, los delegados suscribieron un comunicado conjunto.