Time travel not included
a grammatical tense that denotes events and places that occurred in the past
a grammatical tense that denotes events and places that occurred in the past
Preterite
indicates a completed past action with a definitive beginning and end
Imperfect
indicates a past action or event without a definitive beginning or end.
• Set the stage
• To talk about a past action which was repeated habitually
• to communicate mental and/or physical states in the past
• to describe people in the past
• to tell someones age in the past
• Completed actions
• Single events (in most cases)
• Actions apart of a chain of events
• actions repeated a specific amount of times
Imperfect trigger words
a menudo
a veces
algunas veces
cada dia...
con frecuencia
casi nunca
de vez en cuando
generalmente
mientras
siempre
rara vez
por lo general
generalmente
por un rato
varias veces
tantas veces
todos los días
mucho
nunca
Preterite trigger words
a esa hora
anoche
ante anoche
ante ayer
ayer
el otro día
hoy por la manaña