Brain Boost - Perfect Tenses: Present, Past, and Future
Sections 17-18: Compound Tenses - Spanish Conditional and Subjunctive Perfect
Brain Boost - Perfect Tenses: Present, past, future, conditional, & subjunctive
Sections 19-20: Compound Tenses - Spanish Past Subjunctive, Past Preterite Perfect
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Sentence Practice: Preterite Perfect – Regular

Here, you can practice sentences and conjugations with Spanish Preterite Perfect Regular verbs. Here, we’ve added “at 7:00 am” to help you know that you should use the “Preteretive Perfect” tense (hube comido) instead of the Pluperfect tense (había comido). Remember the Preterite perfect is more common in writing and not as much in speaking. Take a minute to learn from these examples. Similar questions will show up in the next digital quiz. Have fun! 🙂 

Questions:

1. ¿Ud. _______________ (haber comprender) las instrucciones antes de la reunión (a las 7:00 a.m.)?
2. Sí, yo _______________ (haber comprender) todo lo necesario (a las 7:00 a.m.).
3. ¿Ellas _______________ (haber mostrar) sus resultados a la clase (a las 7:00 a.m.)?
4. No, ellas no _______________ (haber mostrar) los resultados todavía (a las 7:00 a.m.).
5. ¿Nosotras _______________ (haber ayudar) a preparar el evento (a las 7:00 a.m.)?
6. Sí, nosotras _______________ (haber ayudar) con los preparativos (a las 7:00 a.m.).
7. ¿Por qué Uds. _______________ (haber coger) los materiales antes del taller (a las 7:00 a.m.)?
8. Porque nosotros _______________ (haber coger) los materiales temprano para organizarlos (a las 7:00 a.m.).
9. ¿Dónde ellas _______________ (haber practicar) para la presentación (a las 7:00 a.m.)?
10. Ellas _______________ (haber practicar) en el salón principal (a las 7:00 a.m.).

Answer Key:

1. hube comprendido: Had you understood the instructions before the meeting (at 7:00 a.m.)?
2. hube comprendido: Yes, I had understood everything necessary (at 7:00 a.m.).
3. hubieron mostrado: Had they shown their results to the class (at 7:00 a.m.)?
4. hubieron mostrado: No, they hadn’t shown the results yet (at 7:00 a.m.).
5. hubimos ayudado: Had we helped to prepare the event (at 7:00 a.m.)?
6. hubimos ayudado: Yes, we had helped with the preparations (at 7:00 a.m.).
7. hubieron cogido: Why had you grabbed the materials before the workshop (at 7:00 a.m.)?
8. hubimos cogido: Because we had grabbed the materials early to organize them (at 7:00 a.m.).
9. hubieron practicado: Where had they practiced for the presentation (at 7:00 a.m.)?
10. hubieron practicado: They had practiced in the main hall (at 7:00 a.m.).