Preterite or Imperfect??
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i'm not really sure when to use imperfect tense or preterite.
like in this one Yo ______ (tomar) un curso de espanol en Antigua. would it be tome or tomaba?
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updated Oct 22, 2009
posted by cheonsa
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It can be a little tricky to distinguish between pret and imperfect, but there is a good way to tell. if it is something that happened and stopped, it is the preterite. the imperfect is for things that happened without a definite starting or stopping point. for this, you would want to use the preterite because it happened and now it is done.
updated Oct 22, 2009
posted by luhzon89
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unless you wanted to say "i was taking this class last year when .... happened." then if it is just a piece of background information, it would be in the imperfect.
updated Oct 22, 2009
posted by luhzon89
