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&lt;p&gt;Sorry but I&amp;#39;m a little bit confused. Maybe there is a case that my Spanish books are wrong but isn&amp;#39;t &lt;em&gt;imperfecto&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;a &lt;em&gt;pret&lt;/em&gt;Ã©&lt;em&gt;rito &lt;/em&gt;at the same time? I mean, the correct names for the both tenses are: &lt;em&gt;pretÃ©rito imperfecto&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;pretÃ©rito indefinido&lt;/em&gt;. Isn&amp;#39;t that right? Finally, I&amp;#39;m learning from the books edited and printed in Spain (edelsa Grupo Didascalia S.A.)... Still,&amp;nbsp;are they&amp;nbsp;mistaken?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Saludos!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: the imperfect tense</title><link>http://forodeespanol.com/Archive/TheImperfectTense/vbbc/post.htm#19960</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 04:46:55 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:19960</guid><dc:creator>Jhumka</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><comments>http://forodeespanol.com/Archive/TheImperfectTense/vbbc/post.htm#19960</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://forodeespanol.com/Archive/comments12-19960.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;table&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
		&lt;td&gt;&lt;u&gt;presente&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
		&lt;td&gt;&lt;u&gt;imperfecto&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
		&lt;td&gt;&lt;u&gt;pretÃ©rito&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
		&lt;td&gt;&lt;u&gt;futuro&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
		&lt;td&gt;&lt;u&gt;condicional&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
	&lt;/tr&gt;
	&lt;tr&gt;
		&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;yo&lt;br /&gt;tÃº&lt;br /&gt;Ã©l, ella, &lt;span&gt;Ud.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;nosotros&lt;br /&gt;vosotros&lt;br /&gt;ellos, ellas, &lt;span&gt;Uds.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
		&lt;td&gt;amo&lt;br /&gt;amas&lt;br /&gt;ama&lt;br /&gt;amamos&lt;br /&gt;amÃ¡is&lt;br /&gt;aman&lt;/td&gt;
		&lt;td&gt;amaba&lt;br /&gt;amabas&lt;br /&gt;amaba&lt;br /&gt;amÃ¡bamos&lt;br /&gt;amabais&lt;br /&gt;amaban&lt;/td&gt;
		&lt;td&gt;amÃ©&lt;br /&gt;amaste&lt;br /&gt;amÃ³&lt;br /&gt;amamos&lt;br /&gt;amasteis&lt;br /&gt;amaron&lt;/td&gt;
		&lt;td&gt;amarÃ©&lt;br /&gt;amarÃ¡s&lt;br /&gt;amarÃ¡&lt;br /&gt;amaremos&lt;br /&gt;amarÃ©is&lt;br /&gt;amarÃ¡n&lt;/td&gt;
		&lt;td&gt;amarÃ­a&lt;br /&gt;amarÃ­as&lt;br /&gt;amarÃ­a&lt;br /&gt;amarÃ­amos&lt;br /&gt;amarÃ­ais&lt;br /&gt;amarÃ­an&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;imperfect is past continuous &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;as we say in I &amp;quot;used to love &amp;quot; that is amaba&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For example, Luis tenÃ­a sÃ³lo 10 aÃ±os cuando viajÃ³ a Colombia. &lt;br /&gt;I&lt;font color="purple"&gt;&lt;b&gt;MPERFECT PAST&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt; is used when the past action is not yet finished because some other action in the past happened ( ...cuando viajÃ³ a COLOMBIA)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font color="blue"&gt;THE SIMPLE PAST&lt;/font&gt; the action started and finsihed into the past.&lt;br /&gt;
If you useTUVE 10 aÃ±os no further action can happen in Spanish.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font color="purple"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Yo tuve tambiÃ©n 10 aÃ±os&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt; &lt;font color="blue"&gt;&lt;b&gt;PERIOD&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;. ( ...cuando viajÃ© a COLOMBIA) &lt;font color="red"&gt;&lt;b&gt;WRONG&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: the imperfect tense</title><link>http://forodeespanol.com/Archive/TheImperfectTense/vbrj/post.htm#19950</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2007 18:32:06 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:19950</guid><dc:creator>wero</dc:creator><slash:comments>2</slash:comments><comments>http://forodeespanol.com/Archive/TheImperfectTense/vbrj/post.htm#19950</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://forodeespanol.com/Archive/comments12-19950.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>Imperfect tense is future tense yeah?&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: the imperfect tense</title><link>http://forodeespanol.com/Archive/TheImperfectTense/dqwn/post.htm#19512</link><pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 00:32:12 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:19512</guid><dc:creator>Pucca</dc:creator><slash:comments>4</slash:comments><comments>http://forodeespanol.com/Archive/TheImperfectTense/dqwn/post.htm#19512</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://forodeespanol.com/Archive/comments12-19512.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="/Themes/forodeespanol/images/icon-quote.gif"&gt; &lt;strong&gt;JUNIORcakes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Las fabricas causaban contaminaci&lt;font color="#00ff"&gt;Ã³&lt;/font&gt;n&amp;nbsp;en el&amp;nbsp;aire. Los cielos &lt;font color="#00ff"&gt;se&lt;/font&gt; ve&lt;font color="#00ff"&gt;Ã­&lt;/font&gt;an o&lt;font color="#00ff"&gt;&lt;strike&gt;c&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/font&gt;s&lt;font color="#00ff"&gt;c&lt;/font&gt;uros y gris&lt;font color="#00ff"&gt;e&lt;/font&gt;s.&amp;nbsp; No hab&lt;font color="#00ff"&gt;Ã­&lt;/font&gt;a mucho sol en el centro de la ciudad.&amp;nbsp; Por eso se murieron l&lt;font color="#00ff"&gt;a&lt;/font&gt;s palmer&lt;font color="#00ff"&gt;a&lt;/font&gt;s.&amp;nbsp; La contaminaci&lt;font color="#00ff"&gt;Ã³&lt;/font&gt;n causaba lluvia &lt;font color="#00ff"&gt;Ã¡&lt;/font&gt;cida que destruye el medioambiente.&amp;nbsp; Los &lt;font color="#00ff"&gt;Ã¡&lt;/font&gt;rboles no ten&lt;font color="#00ff"&gt;Ã­&lt;/font&gt;an suficiente agua. Hab&lt;font color="#00ff"&gt;Ã­&lt;/font&gt;a mucho&lt;font color="#00ff"&gt;&lt;strike&gt; transito&lt;/strike&gt; trÃ¡fico &lt;/font&gt;en el centro que hac&lt;font color="#00ff"&gt;Ã­&lt;/font&gt;a mucho ruido y&lt;font color="#00ff"&gt; provocaba&lt;/font&gt; contaminaci&lt;font color="#00ff"&gt;Ã³&lt;/font&gt;n&lt;strike&gt; &lt;/strike&gt;&lt;font color="#00ff"&gt;&lt;strike&gt;del&lt;/strike&gt; en el&lt;/font&gt;&amp;nbsp;aire.&amp;nbsp; No hab&lt;font color="#00ff"&gt;Ã­&lt;/font&gt;a suficientes basureros y hab&lt;font color="#00ff"&gt;Ã­&lt;/font&gt;a mucha basura en todas partes.&amp;nbsp; Hoy en d&lt;font color="#00ff"&gt;Ã­&lt;/font&gt;a laciudad e&lt;font color="#00ff"&gt;s&lt;/font&gt; muy diferente.&amp;nbsp; La ciudad ha mejorado mucho. Hay un jard&lt;font color="#00ff"&gt;Ã­&lt;/font&gt;n p&lt;font color="#00ff"&gt;Ãº&lt;/font&gt;blico.&amp;nbsp; &lt;font&gt;Las floristas tienden a las flores todos los dias.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt; No hay los carros y las ciudad tiene &lt;font color="#00ff"&gt;&lt;strike&gt;las calidad de aire buena&lt;/strike&gt; una buena calidad de aire&lt;/font&gt;.&amp;nbsp; No&lt;font color="#00ff"&gt;&lt;strike&gt;y &lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/font&gt;hay contaminaci&lt;font color="#00ff"&gt;Ã³&lt;/font&gt;n &lt;font color="#00ff"&gt;&lt;strike&gt;del aire&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/font&gt; y l&lt;font color="#00ff"&gt;a&lt;/font&gt;s palmer&lt;font color="#00ff"&gt;a&lt;/font&gt;s &lt;font color="#00ff"&gt;&lt;strike&gt;eastn&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/font&gt; &lt;font color="#00ff"&gt;estÃ¡n sanas&lt;/font&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;font color="#00ff"&gt;&lt;strike&gt;saludables&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/font&gt;.&amp;nbsp; Hay suficientes basureros y las ciudad est&lt;font color="#00ff"&gt;Ã¡&lt;/font&gt; &lt;font color="#00ff"&gt;&lt;strike&gt;un sitia mejor.&lt;/strike&gt; mÃ¡s limpia.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font color="#00ff"&gt;I made a&amp;nbsp;couple of changes, you should try to join the sentences and, write the accents, please. :)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: the imperfect tense</title><link>http://forodeespanol.com/Archive/TheImperfectTense/dqww/post.htm#19507</link><pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2007 02:49:45 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:19507</guid><dc:creator>JUNIORcakes</dc:creator><slash:comments>4</slash:comments><comments>http://forodeespanol.com/Archive/TheImperfectTense/dqww/post.htm#19507</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://forodeespanol.com/Archive/comments12-19507.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;thanks for helping me out =]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I took out all the accents in hopes my post wouldn&amp;#39;t show up with all the smilie faces, but it didnt really work. Good thing they&amp;#39;re cute. hahah&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: the imperfect tense</title><link>http://forodeespanol.com/Archive/TheImperfectTense/dqwv/post.htm#19503</link><pubDate>Sun, 25 Nov 2007 03:44:23 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:19503</guid><dc:creator>The Jueves Reader</dc:creator><slash:comments>5</slash:comments><comments>http://forodeespanol.com/Archive/TheImperfectTense/dqwv/post.htm#19503</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://forodeespanol.com/Archive/comments12-19503.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#39;s no accents. Except that, I only see&amp;nbsp;a few&amp;nbsp;errors: the trees (palms, I suppose) aren&amp;#39;t &amp;quot;los palmeros&amp;quot;, but &amp;quot;l&lt;strong&gt;a&lt;/strong&gt;s palmer&lt;strong&gt;a&lt;/strong&gt;s&amp;quot;. If you say &amp;quot;los palmeros&amp;quot; you refers to the people who hits his palms at a &amp;quot;Flamenco Show&amp;quot;, and in fact, it&amp;#39;s a pity they died by contamination. They had to smoke less.. ;-)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#39;s too &amp;quot;las floristas tienden..&amp;quot;, that must be &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;los jardineros atienden&lt;/em&gt;..&amp;quot;; and &amp;quot;noy hay los carros..&amp;quot;, that would be &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;no hay carros..&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot; in South America or &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;no hay coches..&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot; in Spain.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Anyway, I understand it with no problem, and the mistakes aren&amp;#39;t too evident. Go on, you&amp;#39;re doing it well.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Good bye.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>the imperfect tense</title><link>http://forodeespanol.com/Archive/TheImperfectTense/dqwb/post.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 24 Nov 2007 22:55:47 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:19500</guid><dc:creator>JUNIORcakes</dc:creator><slash:comments>6</slash:comments><comments>http://forodeespanol.com/Archive/TheImperfectTense/dqwb/post.htm</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://forodeespanol.com/Archive/comments12-19500.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;Las fabricas causaban contaminacion del aire. Los cielos veian ocsuros y grisas.&amp;nbsp; No habia mucho sol en el centro de la ciudad.&amp;nbsp; Por eso se murieron los palmeros.&amp;nbsp; La contaminacion causaba lluvia acida que destruye el medioambiente.&amp;nbsp; Los arboles no tenian suficiente agua. Habia mucho transito en el centro que hacia mucho ruido y contaminacion del aire.&amp;nbsp; No habia suficientes basureros y habia mucha basura en todas partes.&amp;nbsp; Hoy en dia laciudad en muy diferente.&amp;nbsp; La ciudad ha mejorado mucho. Hay un jardin publico.&amp;nbsp; Las floristas tienden a las flores todos los dias.&amp;nbsp; Noy hay los carros y las ciudad tiene las calidad de aire buena.&amp;nbsp; Noy hay contaminacion del aire y los palmeros eastn saludables.&amp;nbsp; Hay suficientes basureros y las ciudad esta un sitia mejor.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Did I make any major mistakes?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Revisions and suggestions are appreciated. :)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>