We previously mentioned that TENSE refers to the 'position' of an 'action' in a timeline, that is 'where' an 'action' is located in 'time'. We also mentioned that ASPECT tells us how we 'experience' 'that time'. The Now point shows our 'present moment': we can 'place' what we DO in our present day or what we ARE DOING at our 'present moment', right now or as a 'continual', 'progressive' or 'ongoing' action. In the Past segment we can 'place' a 'completed' action (I walked to school yesterday) or an action in progress in the past (I was walking to school when I run into Mary). As in English we only have two 'tenses' ('present' verbs represented with DO and 'past' verbs reprented with DID ) the Future segment shows 'future' actions represented with different 'forms' (I will walk to school tomorrow, I 'm ...
Tal vez no me meto a nadar , pero sí me meto al agua, digo, hay que mojar se, embeber se de ejemplos o conocimiento extra, más que aprender se listas de verbos que sólo usan 'infinitive' o 'gerund' o ambos. Switching (not translating ) between Spanish and English or vice versa in order to solve a problem or situation in everyday life is a useful skill we have to practice when learning either English or Spanish. Ya había comentado que no es claro y nos resulta difícil entender este tema de 'verb patterns', sobre todo el 'gerund' porque lo confundimos con los tiempos gramaticales continuos. Nuestros verbos en español son 'flexivos', es decir que a la 'forma simple' le agregamos terminaciones adecuadas para indicar 'tiempo', 'modo' y 'aspecto' ( correr, corrí, correré, corriendo, corrido, corriera, correría, etc .), es decir que podemos ' conjugar ' nuestros verbos. En ese ...