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The Introduction
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Spanish Answering Questions

The most basic Spanish questions are those whose answer is “Si” or “No”. In English we ask questions using auxiliaries like DO or DID, but in

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Spanish Preterit vs Imperfect

Many students have trouble knowing when to use the preterit tense or the imperfect tense, as they both refer to actions in the past. There

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Spanish Irregular Imperfect Tense

There are only three verbs with irregular conjugations in the imperfect: ir, ser, and ver. Remember how there were a lot of irregular verbs and rules to verbs

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Spanish Imperfect Tense

There are only two sets of endings for regular imperfect verbs in Spanish, one for -ar verbs and one for both -er and -ir verbs. To conjugate

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Spanish Irregular Past Tense Verbs

The Spanish preterit tense is used to describe actions completed at a specific point in the past; whereas the imperfect is used to describe habitual

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Spanish Regular Preterit Tense

The preterit tense (El pretérito Regular) is used to express events that have occurred in the past. This tense generally corresponds to the simple past tense in English.

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Spanish “Por” vs “Para”

Although both Spanish prepositions por and para can often be translated as “for,” they have separate meanings and can seldom be used as synonyms. -Por

Spanish The Verbs “to know”

The Spanish verb conocer, which comes from the same root as the English words “cognition” and “recognize,” generally means “to be familiar with.” The most common

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Spanish Positive and Negative Words

Mastering the use of positive (affirmative) and negative words in Spanish is an integral step to becoming a more coherent, fluent-like speaker. This unit reviews