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Past Perfect Continuous: perguntas de sim ou não

480 exercícios de lacuna, 48 testes de dez

Ponha had na frente do sujeito. Been e a forma em -ing ficam juntos.

O padrão

Só had se move:

You had been waiting. → Had you been waiting?

As respostas curtas repetem had

Had he been drinking? — Yes, he had. / No, he hadn’t.

Lendo as marcas do passado

A pergunta normalmente indaga o que explica um estado que alguém encontrou:

• Had it been raining? The roads were soaked.
• Had they been arguing? Nobody was speaking.

Você não pergunta pelo passado em si, mas pela causa de algo já estabelecido.

How long, dentro da pergunta

Acrescentar long transforma a frase numa pergunta sobre duração sem palavra interrogativa:

Had you been waiting long? — uma forma educada de se desculpar pelo atraso.

Todas as formas

Exemplos

Tirados das 480 frases deste exercício. A resposta está destacada.

• Had my mother been making soup every Friday?
• Had they been traveling for hours before they reached their destination?
• Had they been watching the movie when the power went out?
• Had she been playing that video game before her mother came home?
• Had you been reading that book for weeks before you finished it?
• Had they been attending the show before it got canceled?
• Had he been working out at the gym for two hours before he felt tired?
• Had he been listening to the song for weeks before it became popular?
• Had he been writing the report before the meeting started?
• Had they been doing gardening before it started raining?
• Had he been waiting for her phone call all day long?
• Had she been cooking dinner before her guests arrived?

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