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Spanish 2 Acc Study Guide for Finals of Semester 1

The imperfect tense is used:

1. To express habitual or repeated actions in the past.

Clue Words: siempre, mucha veces, a menudo, todos los..., cada..., frecuentemente, genralmente, con frecuencia (or any expression that implies repetition)

2. An action that was in progress in the past.

in English "was +---ing." This often appears with the preterite, which would be the interrupting action.

Ex) Jugaba a futbol cuando me rompi la pierna.

3. Mental or emotional states.

This included verbs related to thinking and to desires (pensar, creer, querer, etc.)

4. Descriptions/background information.

Broadcast of all categories and includes many things such as weather, age, time, physical descriptions or conditions, or anything that is not viewwed as an action and is more static.

5. To describe simultaneous actions in the past.