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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 “...the train was approaching New York” a gerund is used as a/an

  1. verb.
  2. noun.
  3. article.
  4. adjective.
  5. quantifier.
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Gerund (a forma em -ing) em "the train was approaching New York" atua como verbo, integrando uma locução verbal. Aqui temos o auxiliar was + o gerund approaching, formando o tempo contínuo do passado (past continuous), que indica ação em progresso.

Embora a forma -ing possa funcionar como noun (gerúndio no sentido de substantivo) em outros contextos, neste exemplo sua função sintática é verbal: compõe o predicado e expressa aspecto contínuo da ação.

Ex.: "She was running" — mesma estrutura: auxiliar + gerund = verbo no past continuous.

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