Syntaxdifficulty 3
que disambiguation
The unstressed que has three roles: relative pronoun ('the book that I read'), complementizer ('I think that...'), and comparative ('more than'). Stressed qué is interrogative/exclamative.
Examples
El libro ___ leí.
→ que
Relative pronoun
Creo ___ es tarde.
→ que
Complementizer
Más ___ ayer.
→ que
Comparative
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