What are the usual sequences of tenses in Spanish?

Question

I remember learning the usual sequences of tenses for English as a child. I don't remember ever hearing of them for Spanish but since Lorenzo mentioned them in a recent post, I think it would be helpful to know them.

Answer 1

sequence of tenses for the subjunctive

Answer 2

Esto te puede ayudar: Secuencia de tiempos.ppt

Secuencia de Tiempos

Verbo principal pasado verbo subordinado pasado

• Se usa el pluscuamperfecto de subjuntivo cuando la acción en la cláusula subordinada ocurre antes de la acción de la cláusula principal

• El imperfecto de subjuntivo expresa una acción que ocurre simultáneamente a la acción de la cláusula principal o después de ella.

Answer 3

When you look at a verb conjugation chart in Spanish, it will be in two columns. It will be as thus:

yo ------------- nosotros

tú----------------vosotros

él/ella/Ud------ellos, ellas, Uds.

So the sequence is yo---tú---él---nosotros---vosotros---Uds.

No, the sequene of tenses has to do with how verbs are conjugated in sentences with more than one clause. - lorenzo9, Jan 9, 2011