Preterite and Imperfect Tense !!!!

What is the Imperfect Tense?

• A wrong tense of Spanish

• A tense in Spanish where all the conjugations are wrong

• The name of a Boat

• It refers to habitual actions that happened in the past

What is the pneumonic to remember when the imperfect tense is used?

Do you recall it ?

Answer explanation

Hannah Martin Always Took Cold Showers is the pneumonic that helps you to remember when the imperfect tense is used.

The first letter of each word is symbolic of when the imperfect tense is used.

H- Habitual Actions

M-Mental/ Physical state

A- Answers the question "What was going on?"

T- Time/ Date

C-Characteristics

S-Someone's age in the past

The Preterite tense is used to refer to habitual actions that occurred in the past.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Answer explanation

The Imperfect tense is what is used to refer to habitual actions that happened in the past.

Ayer and Anoche are indicators for the preterite tense.

• True

• False

Conjugate bailar in the preterite tense in the "yo" subject pronoun

• Bail

• Bailin

• bailé

• Baili

Todos los años, en el cumpleaños de mi papá, escuchaba la nota de voz que me dejó antes de morir.

The underlined word is in which tense?

• Preterite Tense

• Imperfect Tense

• Present Tense

"Siempre" is a preterite tense indicator word.

• True

• False

Ayer, Ana se bebió una botella entera de vino.

It is written in the preterite tense.

• True

• False

What is the preterite tense?

• A pre-written tense since decades ago

• A tense that was just discovered yesterday

• A tense that only royalty can use.

• It is the tense in Spanish that refers to COMPLETED actions that occurred in the past; actions that had a definite end.

Preterite tense and imperfect tense are the same thing.

• YES!

• NO!!!

• Maybe