Unidad 2

Pretérito v. Imperfecto

Complete las siguientes oraciones con la forma adecuada del pretérito o del imperfecto. Consulte la versión en inglés que sigue a cada oración para deducir la forma correcta.

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Your accents and spelling answers are crucial for the feed back of your answers: the spelling of the verb forms must be correct in order for the program to recognize the answer as correct. Please read the Foreign Diacritics document if you have difficulties inserting accents and other Spanish diacritics in the blanks of the form.

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The feed back consists of different pop-up windows with specific information related to each one of the blanks of the exercise.

1. This is a self-check exercise: click on each "C" after you type your answer.

2. If you have difficulties with the conjugations, click on this link for Comp-jugador < http://csg.uwaterloo.ca/~dmg/lando/verbos/ >, a Spanish verb tense utility.

3. To see the the correct answers, click on the "Show Answers" button at the bottom of this Page when you have finished.

1. Cuando adonde nos , que ya habían salido. When we arrived where they were waiting for us, we found out that they had already left. 2. indicarle que no necesario hacerlo hoy. I wanted to tell him that it wasn't necessary to do it today. 3. que a entender lo que me usted cuando con eso. I thought that I was beginning to understand what you were telling me when you came out with that. 4. hacerle ver que no conveniente, pero no caso (form of hacer caso). I tried to make her see that it wasn't advisable, but she did not pay any attention. 5. Nos que bien, pero no se lo . He told us that it was alright, but we didn't believe him. 6. Una vez que lo que me , me rotundamente. Once I caught on to what they were asking of me, I flatly refused. 7. Apenas el trabajo, lo sin decir palabra. The minute he finished the paper, he turned it in without saying a word. 8. Nosotros allí cuando no necesidad de preocuparse con aquello. después cuando se fea la cosa. We were living there at a time when there was no need to worry about that. It was later that things got bad. 9. No me nada, pero ver lo que el cartel. They didn't tell me anything, but I managed to see what the sign said. 10. Nos en casa, y mientras , Raimundo y nos que todos los arreglos se habían hecho. We met at home, and while we were talking, Raimundo arrived and told us that all the arrangements had been made.

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