La secretaria revisó doscientos correos y acabó saliendo muy tarde de la oficina.

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Breakdown of La secretaria revisó doscientos correos y acabó saliendo muy tarde de la oficina.

• y: and
• tarde: late
• salir: to leave

Questions & Answers about La secretaria revisó doscientos correos y acabó saliendo muy tarde de la oficina.

Why is it revisó and not revisaba?

Revisó is the pretérito (simple past), which presents the action as completed: she checked/reviewed the emails and that action is seen as finished.

If you said revisaba, that would be the imperfect, which would sound more like:

• she was checking emails
• she used to check emails
• the action is being described as ongoing or habitual

In this sentence, the speaker is telling a completed sequence of events:

1. she reviewed 200 emails
2. as a result, she ended up leaving very late

So revisó fits best.

Why is it doscientos correos and not doscientas correos?

Because doscientos must agree in gender with the noun it modifies, and correos is masculine plural.

So:

• doscientos correos
• doscientas cartas

Compare:

• correo = masculine
• carta = feminine

That is why the form here is doscientos.

Does correos mean letters or emails here?