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Old June 02, 2008, 10:56 AM
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Originally Posted by Alfonso View Post
Gramática, all and each of the options you wrote are OK.
But those chosen by the translator are stylistically the best.
Was I, and many others, taught wrong about querer taking on a different meaning in the preterite, and yet another in the negated form in the same tense? I learned that I couldn't use quise if I wanted to say I wanted. I was told that quería was the only way to say that.
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