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Verbs: Imperfect Preterite and Past Perfect

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During the Middle Ages, Spain experienced a period of intense cultural effervescence, in which Andalusian literature and poetry left an enduring legacy. The use of verb tenses in historical and literary texts not only reflects the linguistic customs of the time, but also allows scholars to understand the context and situations narrated. By analyzing a fragment of a 12th-century Andalusian poem, the use of the preterite imperfect and pluperfect verb tenses can be observed. In the context of medieval Spanish literature, the preterite imperfect, which expresses continuous or habitual actions in the past, and the pluperfect, which indicates actions prior to other past actions, are used with precision to narrate complex events and temporal sequences. Considering the fragment presented below and your knowledge of verbs in the preterite imperfect and pluperfect tenses, identify the correct use of these verb tenses in the poem and justify your choice based on the historical-chronological context provided in the fragment.
a.
For habitual or continuous actions in the past, verbs in the imperfect preterite are identified; for actions prior to other past events, the pluperfect is used.
b.
The verbs in the imperfect preterite are used for specific actions that occurred in the past, while the pluperfect indicates actions that were repeated.
c.
The imperfect preterite is used for actions that occurred after events narrated in the text, and the pluperfect for habitual actions in the present.
d.
In medieval narratives, the pluperfect is used to describe future actions, and the imperfect preterite for actions in the present.
e.
The use of the pluperfect in 12th-century poems is common to express actions that occurred simultaneously with others.

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