estaba or estuveI'm having trouble understanding this answer in a study plan test. Could you please explain.
Ella estaba lavándose el pelo
cuando él llegó.
She was washing her hair when he arrived.
When it is combined
with another action that interrupts the ongoing action at that time. The interrupting
action is generally in the simple past (see the last example where the ongoing
action "She was washing her
hair" was interrupted by another sudden action "he arrived”.
Te ________ hasta que me aburrí y me fui.
I was waiting for you
until I got bored and left.
era esperando
estaba esperando-----my answer
estuve esperando------correct Kwiziq answer
fui esperando
To me, it seems that the waiting was interrupted by "got bored and left."
In a quiz, I wrote "Estamos adentro de la sala." and it got marked wrong. It said that the only correct answer was "Estamos dentro de la sala." In the notes on this topic, it says that "adentro" and be used for "inside a place" but not for "inside a thing". It seems like "la sala" is a place. Why is it wrong to use "adentro" in this case?
llevar and tomar mean ¨take¨, are they the same?
Por favor, how do I get and upside down question mark on on my keyboard? I lost half a mark because I could not do this. Sorry for the inconvenience. Brenda True
I'm having trouble understanding this answer in a study plan test. Could you please explain.
Ella estaba lavándose el pelo cuando él llegó.
She was washing her hair when he arrived.
When it is combined with another action that interrupts the ongoing action at that time. The interrupting action is generally in the simple past (see the last example where the ongoing action "She was washing her hair" was interrupted by another sudden action "he arrived”.
Te ________ hasta que me aburrí y me fui.
I was waiting for you until I got bored and left.
era esperando
estaba esperando-----my answer
estuve esperando------correct Kwiziq answer
fui esperando
To me, it seems that the waiting was interrupted by "got bored and left."
Why is it not "¡Qué sorpresa me ha llevado hoy!"?
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