Identificarfill in the blanks activity hide details instructionslisten and list the verbs under the correct category of preterite or imperfect. july 22 11: 59 pm 3 attempts remaining grade settings external referencesvocabulary list grammar explanation questions modelo you hear: cuando llegó la ambulancia, el esposo estaba mareado. you write: llegó under preterite, and estaba under imperfect. 0: 23 / 1: 49 preterite question 1 with 1 blank question 2 with 1 blank question 3 with 1 blank question 4 with 1 blank question 5 with 1 blank question 6 with 1 blank question 7 with 1 blank question 8 with 1 blank imperfect question 9 with 1 blank question 10 with 1 blank question 11 with 1 blank question 12 with 1 blank question 13 with 1 blank question 14 with 1 blank question 15 with 1 blank

Imperfect Tense (Preterite)

Explanation:

The Imperfect Tense (Preterite) is one of the two forms of simple past in Spanish, and it is used to:

- talk about past habitual actions (adding used to in its different forms)

- describe what someone was doing when it was interrupted by someone (or something) else. In fact, is more a combination of the past tense and a continuous or repeating aspect. Frequently, this includes a sense of incompletion in the verb, but not always. (Is the equivalent to the Past Progresive Tense in english)

In other words:

It is specially used to describe what used to happen or what was happening.

In this sentence we are talking about two simultaneous facts: (1) the arrival of the ambulance and (2) the dizziness of the husband.

Cuando llegó la ambulancia, el esposo estaba mareado

When the ambulance arrived, the husband was dizzy

Note the husband was dizzy is an action that was taking place at that time in the past when the ambulance arrived.

That is why the verb estar (to be) is written in  imperfect tense as estaba (was).