Past Perfect
O Past Perfect é utilizado para expressar algo que ocorreu antes de uma ação ou evento no passado (Simple Past). I had seen many places before I moved here. She had never eaten clams before her trip to Toronto. Usamos o Past Perfect para expressar a duração do primeiro evento, até o ponto em que o segundo evento ocorreu. She had been in town for 6 months when she finally found a decent place to live. They had had that same old car until it got stolen last year. É importante notar que quando queremos especificar o momento em que o evento ocorreu, usando as palavras after ou before na sentença, o Simple Past também pode ser usado, o qual é também correto. We had worked in Bolivia from 1998 to 2003 before we got transfered to Brazil. We worked in Bolivia from 1998 to 2003 before we got transfered to Brazil. Mas se não especificarmos o ponto no tempo em que o evento aconteceu, temos que usar o Past Perfect, caso contrário a sentença adquire um significado diferente. They had lived in China before coming here. => Em algum momento do passado, eles moraram na China. They lived in China before coming here. => Eles moraram na China exatamente antes de chegar aqui. Existem algumas expressões indicadoras deste tempo verbal, que geralmente são: until, till, before, when. Para formar sentenças no Past Perfect, usamos as seguintes regras: Afirmativa: pessoa + had + verbo principal no Past Participle They had gone when I arrived there. The party had finished when you called. Negativa: Adicione "not" depois do verbo auxiliar. She had not forgotten that offense until he apologized. We had not left before the car got fixed. Interrogativa: Inverta o sujeito e o verbo auxiliar. Why had you gone before she gave you the permision? What had he said about the problem before the presentation started? Exercises on the above theory Exercícios sobre a teoria acima |
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