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Originally Posted by aleCcowaN
The action not only didn't happen ("el no se preguntaba") but it wasn't even conceivable. It's sort of a rhetorical non-question and it didn't require an answer so it's not connected to the present in any chain of events. Such contextual references call for imperfect mood: we don't need to state the action had an end because we are interested in it as a frame for another action in the past or it's valuable now just as a "what if?".
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Perfect, thank you!
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Good for them. I have forgotten how cosmopolitan is Abu Dhabi these days. One of my cousin's step-daughters moved there recently. I suppose the times when people smuggled alcohol inside furniture cases is long time gone [Sir, we bumped your case and your sofa seems to be leaking ...]
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Haha yeah I heard about that! Its fine now, there are hundreds are bars and clubs, its great
But not in summer, too hot!!