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1. The day passes, three days pass, a week passes, and the captain does not appear thereabouts. 2. I can not understand it. 3. We can not understand it. 4. Don't you know that the chiefs go away from time to time? 5. I know nothing of their absence. 6. In the afternoon we take them out of the cave, for the heat stifles them. 7. They are tying them to the trees.
III. THE IMPERFECT AND THE PRETERIT
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1. Two weeks after that he set out at nine o'clock in the morning. 2. The count finally ascertained his whereabouts as well as those of his companion. 3. He was to set out in search of the count. 4. He took leave of his family. 5. He was taking leave of his friends. 6. He was going to set out. 7. We set out. 8. It appeared that they were setting out.
IV
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1. He was playing on the cornet and I was dancing. 2. It was not warm under the trees. 3. I was carrying the cornet to him. 4. Why did he not play? 5. The hypocrite said[1] that he did not know how to play. 6. Nobody used to play like him. 7. We heard that you used to have a pension. 8. I heard so (=it.) 9. Come! come! I had no pension.
Footnote 1:[ (return) ] decir.
V. FUTURE AND CONDITIONAL