La última película que vi: extend writing
I can use the imperfect and the preterite tenses to write about the last film I watched.
La última película que vi: extend writing
I can use the imperfect and the preterite tenses to write about the last film I watched.
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Key learning points
- The imperfect is used to give background information and for repeated actions in the past.
- The preterite tense is used to talk about completed actions in the past.
Keywords
Imperfect - verb tense used to describe the setting, characters or things that were happening in the background during the film
Preterite - verb tense used to talk about specific actions or events that happened and ended during the film
Common misconception
For completed events and actions in the past I can use either the preterite or the imperfect.
The imperfect is used to set the scene, give background information and for repeated actions in the past and the preterite to say what happened, talk about completed events and actions in the past.
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6 Questions
to pollute, contaminate, polluting, contaminating
to destroy, destroying
to win, winning
to maintain, maintaining
to recycle, recycling
to ensure, ensuring
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say!/tell!
do!/make!
put!
leave!/go out!
be!
have!
twin
key
root
death
up to, until
right