Questão 2190133

• Banca: NUCEPE
• Órgão: Prefeitura de Teresina - PI
• Ano: 2016
• Provas: NUCEPE - 2016 - Prefeitura de Teresina - PI - Professor - Língua Inglesa
• Disciplina: Inglês
• Assuntos: Passado perfeito progressivo | Past perfect continuous; Verbos | Verbs

“Mr. Preaud and his wife, who is pregnant, hit the ground as people screamed, “Get down, get down!” After the second explosion, he looked up to see a giant fan — part of an air-conditioning unit — that had landed near them. They had been eating at a Délifrance, talking about Salah Abdeslam, the terrorism suspect who was arrested in Brussels on Friday after a four-month global manhunt.”

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/23/world/europe /brussels (adapted). Access: March 23^rd, 2016.  

The verbal tense in the passage “had been eating” is

• A. future perfect continuous.
• B. present continuous.
• C. past continuous.
• D. past perfect continuous.
• E. present perfect continuous.

Gabarito: D

Comentários

• d-

  The past perfect continuous is similar in construction andusage to the present perfect continuous, barring its reference to a time earlier than 'before now', with an intrinsic concern with highlighting the process