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Copyright © 2012 Vista Higher Learning. All rights reserved  Now that you have learned the forms of the preterite and the imperfect, you will learn more about how they are used. The preterite and the imperfect are not interchangeable. In Spanish, the choice between these two tenses depends on the context and on the point of view of the speaker.

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Copyright © 2012 Vista Higher Learning. All rights reserved  The preterite and the imperfect often appear in the same sentence. In such cases the imperfect describes what was happening, while the preterite describes the action that “interrupted” the ongoing activity.

Copyright © 2012 Vista Higher Learning. All rights reserved  You will also see the preterite and the imperfect together in narratives such as fiction, news, and retelling of events. The imperfect provides background information, such as time, weather, and location, while the preterite indicates the specific events that occurred.

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