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The perfect past is like 'I ate, I sang' in English, and is used for an event that happened once and where the action was finished (eg 'I ate an apple, I sang a song'). The imperfect is for an action whic...

The conditional tense is a structure used to talk about hypothetical situations and ask polite questions, and it works just like we use it in English - for example, "would you like t...

Secondo me la maggior parte dei giovani Italiani abusano della tecnologia perché passano troppo tempo su internet e sui vari social network invece di socializzare con i loro coetanei. Passando molto tempo...

In Italian, if there is a reflexive verb, the action carried out by the subject of the sentence is performed on the subject itself. For example, if we say "Mi guardo allo specchio&quo...

To understand this quote it is important for us to remember the fundamental theme of negativity that runs throughout all of Montale's poetry. As we have seen in other poems, Montale suggests that there is...