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El Pretérito o El Imperfecto Which one should I use?

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El Pretérito o El Imperfecto. Which one should I use?. El Pretérito o El Imperfecto. both are used to express an action or to describe someone or something in the past tense. ACTION completed actions action that has a definite beginning/ending timed action - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Page 1: El Pretérito o El Imperfecto

El Pretérito o El Imperfecto

Which one should I use?

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El Pretérito o El Imperfectoboth are used to express an

action or to describe someone or something in the past tense

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El PretéritoACTIONcompleted actions action that has a definite beginning/ending timed actionaction that occurred a specific # of timesseries/chain of events

•and thenaction that interrupted an ongoing action

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El ImperfectoDESCRIPTIONon-going actions

•was/were + ___ingrepeated or habitual actions in the past

•used todescriptions of weather, emotion, age, time,

appearance, characteristic or background2 simultaneous actions

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El Pretérito El ImperfectoTime Expressions

ayer – yesterdayanoche – last nightun día – one day

de repente – suddenlycuando – when

el ___ pasado – last __una vez – one time

Time Expressionssiempre – always

nunca – nevercada ___ – each ___todos ___ - every ___

mientras - whilea veces – sometimes

a menudo - often

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El Pretérito El ImperfectoUnique Verbsconocer - metquerer - tried

no querer - refusedsaber – found outpoder - succeededno poder – failed to

tener - received

Unique Verbsconocer - knewquerer - wanted

no querer – didn’t want

saber - knewpoder – was able

no poder – wasn’t abletener – used to have

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El Pretérito El Imperfecto AR

é amosaste asteisó aron

ER/IRí imosiste isteisió ieron

ARaba ábamosabas abaisaba aban

ER/IRía íamosías íaisía ían

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El Pretérito El ImperfectoIrregulars•fui, fui song•cargarzar verbs•slipper/sole/shoe•i to y

Irregulars•ser – era•ir – iba•ver – veía