Fill in the blank with the correct form of the verb in the preterite tense please.

Yo (Answer) las maletas en mi habitación. (poner)

Yo (Answer) en la tienda. (estar)

¿Ella no (Answer) que ir al trabajo?(tener)

Reinaldo (Answer) la carta en el sobre. (poner)

Ustedes (Answer) que Marta tuvo un accidente. (saber)

Tú (Answer) la verdad anoche. (saber)

Carlos (Answer) al parque. (andar)

Armando (Answer) en la piscina todo el día. (estar) (1 point)

The preterite tense is one of two simple past tenses. It is used to describe actions that took place or were completed at a certain point in the past. To establish a sentence in the preterite tense, we need to conjugate the verb of the sentence correctly. This sentence stands for the verb poner which is an irregular verb. So the conjugation of this verb for the first person singular in the preterite is puse. So:

Yo puse las maletas en mi habitación

2. Right answer:

estuve

Here we use the verb estar. This verb is used to indicate temporary states and locations. In this way, this verb stands for position, location, action, condition, and emotion. Here it is being used as location, describing where a person was temporarily. So estuve is the conjugation of the verb estar for the first person singular in the preterite. Finally:

Yo estuve en la tienda

3. Right answer:

tuvo

Here we use the verb tener. This is an important verb in Spanish that translates into to have. Hence tuvo is the conjugation of the verb tener for the third person singular in the preterite. Also, it is important to say that we use the word no in this question expecting to get a negative answer as well. Finally:

¿Ella no tuvo que ir al trabajo?

4. Right answer:

puso

Here we use the verb poner as well. Here the conjugation we need to use must match the third person singular because Reinaldo can be replaced by él which is the subject pronoun for the third person singular in masculine form. So this conjugation is puso. Recall that for irregular verbs, you need to learn by heart each conjugation.

Reinaldo puso la carta en el sobre

5. Right answer:

supieron

Here we use the verb saber. This is an irregular verb and the conjugation we need to use must match the second person plural (ustedes). For this verb, you also need to learn by heart each conjugation. Therefore, supieron is the conjugation of this verb for the second person plural in the preterite. Finally:

Ustedes supieron que Marta tuvo un accidente

6. Right answer:

supiste

Here we also use the verb saber. As we said above, we need to learn by heart each conjugation of this verb. Therefore, the conjugation of the verb saber for the second person singular in the preterite is supiste. Finally, we can establish this sentence as follows:

Tú supiste la verdad anoche

7. Right answer:

anduvo

Here we use the verb andar. Since this is an irregular verb, you need to learn by heart each conjugation. This sentence stands for the third person singular, that is, Carlos can be replaced by the subject pronoun él. To match this person, we use the conjugation anduvo. Therefore:

Carlos anduvo al parque

8. Right answer:

estuvo

Here we also use the verb estar. Since this sentence stands for the third person singular, that is, Armando can be replaced by the subject pronoun for the third person singular in feminine form él, then the corresponding conjugation of the verb estar for this person is estuvo. Finally:

Armando estuvo en la piscina todo el día