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Spanish grammar discussion: preterite vs imperfect. ... Spanish has two past tenses: preterite and imperfect. Most verbs can be put into either tense, depending upon the meaning. In this lesson, you will learn to conjugate regular -ar verbs in the preterite and the imperfect.
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www.studyspanish.com/lessons/pretimp1.htm
www.studyspanish.com/lessons/pretimp1.htm
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What's past is past, but in Spanish what's past may be either preterite or imperfect. ... Preterite tense - Glossary - Learn Spanish Language ... Imperfect Tense — Grammar Glossary for Spanish and English...
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spanish.about.com/od/verbtenses/a/two_past_tenses.htm
spanish.about.com/od/verbtenses/a/two_past_tenses.htm
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Because Spanish has both a preterite tense and an imperfect tense, Spanish can use the verb tense to make distinctions about what happened in the past, distinctions that aren't always made in ... In addition to the uses listed here, poder also can be used with the normal distinctions between the preterite and imperfect.
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spanish.about.com/od/verbtenses/a/past_tenses_with_cert...
spanish.about.com/od/verbtenses/a/past_tenses_with_certain_verbs.htm
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Trying to decide when to use the Preterite and when to use the Imperfect is one of the challenges of learning these two tenses. Review the uses of the Imperfect and the Preterite, ... The Imperfect past tense is used to describe a scene while the Preterite is used to list series of completed actions. ... Spanish 101A homepage...
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www.drlemon.net/Grammar/pretvsimp.html
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The Imperfect is often called the Descriptive Past Tense because we "set scenes" using the Imperfect Tense. The Imperfect handles three different Past tense constructions in English: ... The Preterite vs. Imperfect page...
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www.drlemon.net/Grammar/imperfect.html
www.drlemon.net/Grammar/imperfect.html
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For example, one usually uses the imperfect to describe background (ongoing) actions and states, ... Mostly, the correct usage of the preterite and the imperfect is a function of experience in Spanish, listening to and reading native Spanish, and practice. To go to an explanation of the formation of the preterite tense,
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www.trinity.edu/mstroud/Grammar/pretimp.htm
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Spanish has two simple past tenses: the preterite and imperfect. Both Spanish past tenses express past actions or states, but the preterite and the imperfect tenses have different uses. Also, four Spanish verbs (conocer, poder, querer, and saber) have different meanings in the preterite and when used in the negative.
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www.brighthub.com/education/languages/articles/33200.as...
www.brighthub.com/education/languages/articles/33200.aspx
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Of all the tenses in Spanish, the imperfect tense has arguably the simplest forms and the fewest irregularities. The problems that often arise with the imperfect tense in Spanish have more to do with when to use it than how. At least these ...
http://www.espanol-ingles.com.mx/spanish-grammar/verbs_...
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Spanish has two simple tenses that express actions (or states of being) that occurred in the past: the preterite and the imperfect. The preterite t..., Jerry Curtis ... For the imperfect tense, ... For the purposes of this article, I will assume that the reader has learned how to conjugate the Spanish preterite and imperfect tenses.
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www.helium.com/items/944888-spanish-verb-conjugation-us...
www.helium.com/items/944888-spanish-verb-conjugation-using-the-preterite-and-imperfect-tenses
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