Grammar Flashcards
Indicitave mood
The indicative mood is typically used for making factual statements or describing obvious qualities of a person or situation. The indicative mood is often used to talk about facts in the present, past, future, or conditional.
Past tenses used in the indicative mood include
the simple past, the imperfect, and the past perfect.
Imperfect
The Spanish imperfect tense is used to describe past habitual actions or to talk about what someone was doing when they were interrupted by something else.
Ex. Almorzábamos cada día.
We used to eat lunch together every day.
Past perfect
The past perfect is often used to talk about what a person had done before something else The past perfect is often used to talk about what a person had done before something else
Uses of the Imperfect Tense
- Habitual or Repeated Actions
- Actions that Were in Progress in the Past
- Age (in past)
- Descriptions of Characteristics, Conditions, and Feelings in past