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Would you use the preterite tense to describe how someone looked in the past?
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Why do you need to know the preterite tense?
You need to know the preterite tense if you are talking to someone about your past. However, there are two past tenses: the preterite and the imperfect. For a short description, the preterite is used when something is done and over with. The imperfect is for stuff that continously happened in the past. For example: If you lived on State street for five years, you would use the imperfect. If you said, I played basketball with my friends (yesterday) then you would use the preterite. Look for keys words in a sentence to know which tense to use such as yesterday, always, etc.
Is it you would do good or you would do well?
The correct phrase is "you would do well." "Well" is used as an adverb to describe how someone performs or achieves something. "Good" is an adjective and would typically be used to describe a noun. So, in the context of someone's performance or success, "well" is the appropriate word to use.
How would you describe a color?
I would describe it as a crayon.
Why do -car and -gar verbs in Spanish change spelling in the first person of the preterite?
This is what is classified as an "orthographic change". In simple terms, if the spelling was not changed the sound of the word would be very different from other conjugations and the infinitive.For example, if we look at a -car verb like "tocar" and conjugated it without doing the spelling change (e.g. incorrectly), the "yo" form in the preterite would be "toce" and pronounced like "toe-say". This changes the sound from the hard "c" in "tocaste", "toco" to a soft "c". By changing the spelling of the "yo" form in the preterite to "toque", it will be pronounced as "toe-kay", keeping the hard "c" sound.The same issue applies if we look at a -gar verb like "pagar". If we conjugated it without doing the spelling change (e.g. incorrectly), the "yo" form in the preterite would be "page" and pronounced like "pah-hay". This changes the sound from the hard "g" in "pagaste", "pago" to a soft "g" - which sounds like an "h" in English. By changing the spelling of the "yo" form in the preterite to "pague", it will be pronounced as "pah-gay", keeping the hard "g" sound.
What is the imperfect past tense in spanish?
Imperfect is used for ongoing or habitual actions in the past (as opposed to preterite, which is used for finished events). Example: De niño iba a la playa cada verano. (As a child, I went to the beach every summer. Iba is the imperfect tense of ir, meaning to go, and is appropriate in this case because it was a reoccurring event.) A similar sentence in preterite would be Cuando tenía doce años, fui a la playa.(When I was twelve years old, I went to the beach. This just uses preterite because it was a single event that happened and then was completed).
Why do you need to know the preterite tense?
You need to know the preterite tense if you are talking to someone about your past. However, there are two past tenses: the preterite and the imperfect. For a short description, the preterite is used when something is done and over with. The imperfect is for stuff that continously happened in the past. For example: If you lived on State street for five years, you would use the imperfect. If you said, I played basketball with my friends (yesterday) then you would use the preterite. Look for keys words in a sentence to know which tense to use such as yesterday, always, etc.
Would you use the preterite tense to talk about the way somebody looked in the past?
false - apex
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