Questions & Answers about Fuimos a explorar el monumento y fue increíble.
Both fuimos and fue are in this sentence. Aren't they from the same verb?
They actually come from two completely different verbs: ir (to go) and ser (to be). By a strange coincidence in Spanish history, these two highly irregular verbs share the exact same forms in the preterite tense (fui, fuiste, fue, fuimos, fueron). You have to use context to tell them apart. Here, going to do an action (fuimos a explorar) only makes sense for ir, and describing how an event was (fue increíble) only makes sense for ser.
Why is there an a between fuimos and explorar?
The verb ir (to go) is almost always followed by the preposition a when you talk about going to do an action. The formula is ir + a + infinitive verb (an unconjugated verb ending in -ar, -er, or -ir, like explorar). Even though the sentence is in the past tense (fuimos), that rule still applies!
Where is the word for "it" in fue increíble?