"there are many different
in spanish and in english. some tenses are
used to describe present action (as in the above examples), others describe past action.
others describe future action, and still others describe possible or hypothetical action.
the preterite tense is one of the tenses that is used to describe
action
specifically, it is used to talk about things that happened at a
time in
the past. all actions that are described using the preterite tense have a clear beginning
and a clear end: they started and ended in the past.
"they are
actions