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.

< http://www.ups.edu/community/mellon/characters.htm#spanish >

< http://mld.ursinus.edu/~jarana/WebWorkshop/#acentos >

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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.

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1. Apenas conciliar el sueño, aunque que le falta.
He was barely able to get to sleep, even though he knew he needed to.
2. Se (form of dirigir) al escritorio donde sus documentos, y a leerlos inmediatamente.
He went to the desk where he kept his documents, found them, and began to read them slowly.
3. Cuando la puerta, se con que mucho más de lo que .
When she opened the door, she found that it was raining a lot harder than she expected.
4. -¿Cómo te ayer?
-Mira, me (form of resultar) mucho mejor de lo que me que fuera posible.
How did it go for you yesterday? - Look, it worked out much better than I had imagined was possible.
5. Su padre Eliodoro Moreira. Siempre me un hombre muy sobrio, aunque el vino no le (form of disgustar)
6. a la señora Elizondo.
I met Mrs. Elizondo (Met in the sense of made the acquaintance of, was introduced to.)
7. a la señora Elizondo.
I knew Mrs. Elizondo. (The reference is to a point at which my acquaintance with Mrs. Elizondo had already begun and had not yet ended.)
8. que eran de Taiwan.
I found out (learned, came to know, discovered) that they were from Taiwan.
9. que eran de Taiwan.
I (already) knew that they were from Taiwan.
10. abrir la ventana.
He tried (attempted) to open the window. (He conceived the desire to open the window and acted on it. The reference is to the outcome.)
11. abrir la ventana.
He wanted to open the window. (The sentence describes his mental attitude with no reference to its beginning or its end.)
12. No vender el coche.
He did not succeed in selling the car (did not manage to sell the car). (The implication is that he tried and failed. The reference is to the outcome.)
13. No vender el coche.
He could not sell the car. (The sentence describes a state of affairs, namely, his inability to sell the car. There is no reference to the outcome.)
14. que estudiar.
We had to study. (The implication is that something caused us to have to study and we did: outcome.)
15. que estudiar.
We had to study. (The sentence describes a situation in which we had an obligation to study, but there is no reference to the outcome.)



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