Questão 5077594

• Banca: IDIB
• Órgão: Prefeitura de Jaguaribe - CE
• Ano: 2020
• Provas: IDIB - 2020 - Prefeitura de Jaguaribe - CE - Professor - Inglês
• Disciplina: Inglês
• Assuntos: Passado progressivo | Past continuous; Verbos | Verbs

GEORGE FLOYD, FROM ‘I WANT TO TOUCH THE WORLD’ TO ‘I CAN’T BREATHE’

Mr. Floyd had big plans for life nearly 30 years ago. His death in police custody is powering a movement against police brutality and racial injustice.

HOUSTON — It was the last day of 11th grade at Jack Yates High School in Houston, nearly three decades ago. A group of close friends, on their way home, were contemplating what senior year and beyond would bring. They were black teenagers on the precipice of manhood. What, they asked one another, did they want to do with their lives?

 “George turned to me and said, ‘I want to touch the world,’” said Jonathan Veal, 45, recalling the aspiration of one of the young men — a tall, gregarious star athlete named George Floyd whom he had met in the school cafeteria on the first day of sixth grade. To their 17-year-old minds, touching the world maybe meant the N.B.A. or the N.F.L.

“It was one of the first moments I remembered after learning what happened to him,” Mr. Veal said. “He could not have imagined that this is the tragic way people would know his name.”

The world now knows George Perry Floyd Jr. through his final harrowing moments, as he begged for air, his face wedged for nearly nine minutes between a city street and a police officer’s knee.

https://www.nytimes.com/article/george-floyd-who-is.html

What is the verb tense in the sentence below?

[...] A group of close friends, on their way home, were contemplating... [...]

• A. Past perfect continuous.
• B. Present continuous.
• C. Past continuous.
• D. Future continuous.

Gabarito: C

Comentários

• Letra C.

  Past continuos: esse tempo verbal é formando pelo sujeito + simple past do verbo to be (was/were) + o gerúndio do verbo principal (-ing).

• a colega esta correta.

  The past progressive or past continuous construction combines progressive aspect with past tense, and is formed using the past tense of be (was or were) with the present participle of the main verb. It indicates an action that was ongoing at the past time being considered:

         At three o'clock yesterday, I was working in the garden.

  For stative verbs that do not use the progressive aspect, the simple past is used instead (At three o'clock yesterday we were in the garden).

  The past progressive is often used to denote an action that was interrupted by an event, or for two actions taking place in parallel:

         While I was washing the dishes, I heard a loud noise.

         While you were washing the dishes, Sue was walking the dog.

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uses_of_English_verb_forms#Past_progressive/continuous