Questão FC277204
Read the text to answer the question. A man stepped onto the overnight train and told the conductor, “I need you to wake me up in Philadelphia. I’m a deep sleeper and can be angry
Gramática (Grammatics)
IDECAN · 2015
Read the text to answer the question.
A man stepped onto the overnight train and told the conductor, “I need you to wake me up in Philadelphia. I’m a deep sleeper and can be angry when I get up, but no matter what, I want you to help me make that stop. Here’s $100 to make sure”.
The conductor agreed. The man fell asleep, and when he awoke he heard the announcement that the train was approaching New York, which meant they had passed Philadelphia a long time ago.
Furious, he ran to the conductor. “I gave you $100 to make sure I got off in Philadelphia, you idiot!”
“Wow,” another passenger said to his traveling companion. “Is that guy mad!”
“Yeah,” his companion replied. “But not half as mad as that guy they forced off the train in Philadelphia.”
(English2Go, No 7,The Reader’s Digest Association, 2005. P. 80.)
In “They had passed Philadelphia a long time ago” the verb tense is a:
- Past perfect.
- Simple past.
- Present perfect.
- Past progressive.
- Conditional perfect.
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Past perfect é o tempo verbal empregado em "They had passed Philadelphia a long time ago" porque indica uma ação concluída antes de outro momento no passado. A estrutura é had + past participle (here, had passed).
Na narrativa, o ponto de referência é o anúncio de que o trem estava se aproximando de Nova Iorque; o fato de já terem passado por Filadélfia aconteceu antes desse momento. O past perfect marca precisamente essa anterioridade temporal.
O sintagma temporal "a long time ago" reforça que a passagem por Filadélfia ocorreu bem antes do evento passado citado, justificando o uso do passado perfeito para situar a sequência cronológica dos acontecimentos.
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