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Originally Posted by ScottJ
My confusion comes from the fact that "invierno" is three months. There were many days when it was cold (first snow in 90 years!!!), but others when it was warmer. So, it's a different sense for me, something similar to "cuando era joven". Regarding the use of imperfect with a perfect verb to establish a setting...is it grammatically correct to use an imperfect verb as the only verb in a sentence?
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If you would kindly allow me to give my opinion. I am very interested in linguistics, and I'd like to make a comment and I wonder if it makes sense to others in the forum. I speak Peruvian Spanish. The sentence "este invierno hizo mucho frio" is not grammatically correct in my view. Firstly,
este denotes that we are at the tailend of winter, that we're still in it. Then
hizo is in the past simple. In my view,
hizo is the wrong tense, it should be
ha hecho, or the present perfect, meaning we are still in winter, in the tailend of it, denoted by the word
este, and the action is coming from the past into the present.
You could say,
este invierno hizo mucho frio pero yo me mantuve abrigada con la chompa que me mando mi mama. That would be a case when the statement would be allowed - as part of a complex clause - but not on its own.
To say
este invierno esta haciendo mucho frio is correct, i.e. the present continuous, we are in winter and the weather is continuously very cold. However, it would be wrong to say
este invierno estuvo haciendo mucho frio unless you put a second statement, for example
este invierno estuvo haciendo mucho frio pero yo me mantuve abrigada con la chompa que me mando mi mama. That is, the past continuous is used to denote two events, as is in English.
Could someone comment on my comment? I'd be grateful if you did.
Kind regards
Isabel
