Italian GCSE
Time and duration
What Time and duration means in Italian GCSE, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Time and duration
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Reference: AQA
The note states that 'da' is used with the imperfect tense together with a time expression to specify how long an action had been happening before another past event occurred.
Topics that use Time and duration
- Prepositions (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Articulated prepositions
- Past narratives
- Prepositions
- Spatial relationships
- Temporal expressions
- Verb tenses
- Verb-preposition combinations
- Grammatical contractions
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