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Sobre passado perfeito | past perfect em inglês
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Mark the CORRECT item to fill in the blank.
They ______ their house painted before they moved in.

I. “Had not met” is a negative structure in the past perfect tense.
II. “Have happened” is a present perfect structure.
III. This is a conditional sentence.
Which statements are correct?
Read the text to answer question.
“A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. It had begun to snow again. He watched sleepily the flakes, silver and dark, falling obliquely against the lamplight. The time had come for him to set out on his journey westward. Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves. It was falling, too, upon every part of the lonely churchyard on the hill where Michael Furey lay buried. It lay thickly drifted on the crooked crosses and headstones, on the spears of the little gate, on the barren thorns. His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.”
― James Joyce, Dubliners
Select the sentence that correctly uses the conditional tense:
"If I _______________more time, I would have finished the project earlier."
INSTRUCTION: Read the following text to answer question.
When life feels chaotic, less is more
When the feeling of pandemonium takes over, our instinct is often to try to regain control through sweeping personal change. We’ll jump in with grand plans to overhaul our routines, transform our homes, or tackle every to-do we’ve neglected. But inevitably, when the enthusiasm fades, anxiety spirals further, or real life gets in the way, our plans fall apart.
This cycle of starting big and stalling out leaves people feeling more discouraged than before. When we’re overwhelmed, our mental bandwidth is limited, and ambitious plans become just one more thing to manage. That’s where the magic of micro wins comes in. They might not look impressive or overtly ambitious, but they provide a sense of accomplishment, momentum (even pride?), and gradually shift our environment and mindset, especially during times of mass madness.
Source: https://time.com/7172611/little-winsbenefits-essay/
Accessed on November 13, 2024. [Adapted fragment]
I- “(…) and ambitious plans become just one more thing to manage”.
II- “(…) or real life gets in the way, our plans fall apart”.
The past participle form of the verbs “become” and “fall” is, correctly and respectively
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I- ‘Can’ (line 19) is a modal verb with the meaning of possibility;
II- ‘Has detected’ (line 10) is a Simple present verbal tense example;
III-‘has had’ (line 22) is part of Past Perfect verbal tense;
IV- ‘Oozed out of’ (line 27) is a phrasal verb;
Which word completes the sentence correctty.
“Kora and Jill_________ together for years before they _______ friends.”
I. “Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830, in Amherst, Massachusetts.” is in the past simple tense.
II. “While she was extremely prolific as a poet and regularly enclosed poems in letters to friends, she was not publicly recognized during her lifetime.” is in the past continuous tense.
III. “She died in Amherst in 1886, and the first volume of her work was published posthumously in 1890.” is in the past perfect and simple past tenses.
IV. “The Manuscript Books of Emily Dickinson (Belknap Press, 1981) is the only volume that keeps the order intact.” is in the simple present tense.
Which ones are incorrect?
(Available in: https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20240114-denmark-s-frederik-x-to-become-king-afterqueen-margrethe-s-abdication – text especially adapted for this test).


I. “Oprah has joined forces with Steven Spielberg, Quincy Jones, and Scott Sanders to bring The Color Purple musical”
II. "In 1985, Oprah made her acting debut as Sofia in Spielberg’s adaptation of Alice Walker’s novel—and earned an Academy Award nomination. "
III. “Celie, the protagonist of The Color Purple, endures the unimaginable while growing up in rural Georgia—and triumphs, thanks in part to the support of the book’s other women protagonists, Sofia and Shug Avery.”
I. “What will you have been doing?” is in the simple future and future perfect tense.
II. “I was studying English when you called yesteday” is in the past continuous.
III. “She wrote last night” is in simple past.
IV. “Have they ever been abroad?” is in the past perfect.
V. “What are you doing now?” is in the present continuous.
Which ones are correct?


I. The structure “it has been two months” is in the past perfect tense. II. The structure used suggests an ongoing action – the author is still working this way. III. The word “since” is connected to the point in the past in which the action started.
Which ones are correct?