How Long For & Future Tense

Question 1

What are the 3 different present tense constructions which convey how long you’ve been doing something for or how long it is since you’ve done something?

Answer 1

Desde hace, hace que + llevar.

Question 2

What is the construction for desde hace?

Answer 2

Present Action + Desde Hace + Time.

Question 3

What is the construction for hace que?

Answer 3

Hace + Time + Que + Present Action.

Question 4

What is the construction for llevar?

Answer 4

Present Llevar + Time + Gerund Action.

Question 5

What are the 3 constructions for how you would ask someone how long they’ve been doing something?

Answer 5

¿Desde cuándo + present verb?
¿Cuánto tiempo hace que + present verb?
¿Cuánto tiempo + present llevar + gerund?

Question 6

If you have been doing something for a period of time and are still doing it, what should you use?

Answer 6

Use the present tense with one of the 3 present tense constructions.

Question 7

If you had been doing something and were still doing it at the point of reference, what are the 3 constructions you should use?

Answer 7

Imperfect Action + Desde Hacía + Time.
Hacía + Time + Que + Imperfect Action.
Imperfect Llevar + Time + Gerund Action

Question 8

What are the 3 question constructions if they had been doing something and still were at the point of rneference?

Answer 8

¿Cuánto tiempo hacía que + imperfect tense?
¿Desde cuándo + imperfect tense?
¿Cuánto tiempo llevaba(s) + gerund?

Question 9

What should you use when you wish to talk about something which happened for a period of time in the past which is now complete?

Answer 9

Durante (for)

Or por.

Question 10

What should use when referring to time in the future?

Answer 10

Use para/por (for)

Question 11

What should you use when saying ‘since’?

Answer 11

Desde

Question 12

How might you say ago?

Answer 12

Hace + time span.

Question 13

How might you form the immediate future tense?

Answer 13

Appropriate part of ir + a + infinitive.

Question 14

Conjugate the verb:

ir

Answer 14

Voy, vas, va, vamos, vais, van.

Question 15

What are the 2 future tenses? (Describing actions that are to take place in the future)

Answer 15

Ir + a + infinitive.

Future simple with infinitive + ending.

Question 16

What are the endings for the simple future tense?

Answer 16

-é, -ás, -á, -emos, -éis, -án.

Question 17

What are the uses of the simple future tense?

Answer 17

Indicate future events (near/far), indicate suppositions or approximations (usually involves numbers) e.g. Probably, about.

Question 18

What are the irregular verbs + their stems in these tenses:

Conditional + future simple.

Answer 18

Caber (cabr), decir (dir), haber (habr), hacer (har), poder (podr), poner (pondr), querer (querr), saber (sabr), salir (saldr), tener (tendr), valer (valdr), venir (vendr).

Question 19

What are the endings for the conditional tense?

Answer 19

-ía, -ías, -ía, -íamos, -íais, -ían.

Question 20

When is the conditional tense used?

Answer 20

When we use the word ‘would’.
Indicate an implied condition, express suppositions or approximations in past (often with numbers), express future in past (especially reported speech), express rhetorical questions. Often replaced by imperfect (especially in colloquial language) or imperfect subjunctive -ra form (especially with querer, haber, deber) Also used with si.

Question 21

In the conditional tense, when might you need querer in imperfect or preterite form?

Answer 21

When would or wouldn’t refers to someone’s willingness to do something.

Question 22

What do you do when would means used to do something?

Answer 22

The imperfect or soler + infinitive.

Question 23

If could can be replaced with was/used to, what must you do?

Answer 23

Use the imperfect form of poder.

Question 24

How can you say, ‘if I were you, I would…’

Answer 24

Yo que tú, conditional + sentence.