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Past Perfect Continuous: frases afirmativas

450 exercícios de lacuna, 45 testes de dez

Had been para qualquer sujeito, depois o verbo com -ing.

O padrão

Nada concorda com o sujeito — had been é igual para todos:

I had been working. She had been working. They had been working.

A forma curta é ’d been: I’d been, she’d been, they’d been.

O momento passado geralmente é nomeado

Como o tempo mede até um ponto, a frase quase sempre diz qual é esse ponto:

• By the time the guests arrived, she had been cooking for five hours.
• He had been living in Oslo before he moved here.

Sem essa âncora a frase fica com cara de inacabada.

for e since

A mesma divisão de sempre: for com uma duração, since com um ponto de partida.

They had been driving for eight hours / …since six in the morning.

Dois passos atrás numa narrativa

Uma narrativa no Past Simple pode dar dois passos atrás — um para um fato anterior, outro para uma atividade que preencheu o tempo antes dele:

She opened the door. He had been sitting there since noon, and he had not moved.

Todas as formas

Exemplos

Tirados das 450 frases deste exercício. A resposta está destacada.

• The students had been working on their essays all day and were relieved when they finally finished.
• They had been playing basketball every evening before one of them injured their ankle.
• The team had been practicing hard all season before they won the championship.
• I had been waiting for that job for months before they finally offered it to me.
• He had been taking the exam for three hours before he finished.
• She had been studying English for years before she became fluent.
• He had been searching for a job for months before he finally got an offer.
• She had been writing letters to him for years before they met.
• The chef had been cooking the meal for hours before serving it to the customers.
• We had been reading that book for days before we finally finished it.
• She had been doing her homework before watching TV.
• We had been watching a movie for an hour when the projector suddenly stopped working.

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