preterits or imperfects

Question

are the preterits or imperfects right in this paragraph?

Un hombre llamado JR creó esta obra de arte. utilizando una impresora, cámara, ordenador y altavoces. él recorre el mundo y pone imágenes de personas en lugares donde muchas personas pudieran ver. El único modo en que obtiene las imágenes de la gente está pidiendo y diciéndoles que él correo electrónico las fotos. que él pasa alrededor y lo convierte en arte

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Answer 1

This paragraph is quite bad written. You ask about perfect or imperfect forms in the past, but all text is in present tense.... So, I have tried to write it in past form. This is a good example to see that you can use both tenses in the same paragraph (or sentence):

Un hombre llamado JR creó esta obra de arte utilizando una impresora, una cámara, un ordenador y unos altavoces. Él recorría el mundo, y ponía imágenes de personas en lugares donde muchas personas podian verlo. El único modo en el que obtenía las imágenes de la gente era pidiendolas y diciéndoles el correo electrónico donde debian enviarselas y él las convertía en arte.

I have changed the text a little bit to make it more legible.

I do wish you would wait until he makes an attempt himself. - ray76, Feb 19, 2016

Quite 'badly' written. I tend to use legible for something written badly in the sense of the handwriting being bad. Here perhaps 'clearer or understandable' - Mardle, Feb 19, 2016

I think txtaboys ´badly written´is a good description. And txta, thank you so much for re'wrting, it is very interesting to see your version! - annierats, Feb 19, 2016

Mine was 2 comments in one - 1st line it should be badly. My comment about clearer or understandable was an alternative to legible in the last line. - Mardle, Feb 20, 2016

I want to put on record that it is great txusta uses such patience and skill answering posts. Gracias - Mardle, Feb 20, 2016

Answer 2

Having been very lucky to have an hispanohablante give up his time to answer you and save you the effort of amending your post, can you reciprocate by adding your level of English and Spanish to your profile? It helps in working out how to answer or to assess any answer you may give. Eg you can click on txusta boy's profile and see he is from Spain.