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Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Past-Tense Verbs Up Close

Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Past-Tense Verbs Up Close

Authors: Eric Vogt

Published: September 2008

eISBN: 9780071771740 0071771743 | ISBN: 9780071492263

Contents

Overview of past tenses: Now and then

1 The imperfect: Description and background

2 The preterite: Narration, or what happened?

3 The imperfect and the preterite together: Narrating and describing in the past

4 The present perfect: What have you done for me lately?

5 The pluperfect: What happened before something else

6 The conditional: What would be and the future of the past

7 The conditional perfect: What would have been

8 The sequence of tenses: Observations on the indicative and the subjunctive

Answer key