Portuguese activity: Past perfect tense

Portuguese activity, aimed at students in the ninth grade of elementary school, about the pluperfect past tense. What does it express in the communicative context? Let's learn? To do this, answer the questions based on the fragment of the text A formal complaint against Jem!

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SCHOOL: DATE:

PROF: CLASS:

NAME:

Read:

A formal complaint against Jem

At five minutes to two Job Legh stood outside the door of the house where Mr. Bridgenorth stayed when it was the time for high court hearings. I would leave Mrs. Wilson at a friend's house, who __________________ a room for her and Mary: a room that Job himself had occupied several times, on occasional visits to Liverpool, but who was happy to be able to book for them, as where he slept was indifferent to him and the city seemed crowded and confusing on the eve of the judgments.

GASKELL, Elizabeth. mary barton. Translation by Julia Romeu. 1.ed. Rio de Janeiro: Record, 2017. P. 352. Original title: Mary Barton.

Questions

Question 1 – Identify the passage that contains a verb in the past perfect tense:

( ) “[…] Job Legh was at the door of the house […]”

( ) “Let Mrs. Wilson at a friend’s house […]”

( ) “[…] the place where he slept was indifferent to him […]”

Question 2 – In the excerpt identified above, the verb in the past perfect tense refers to:

( ) 1st person singular.

( ) 2nd person singular.

( ) 3rd person singular.

Question 3 – In “[…] __________________ a room for her and Mary […]”, the space must be filled with the verb “to offer” in the pluperfect tense. Tick ​​it:

( ) “offered”.

( ) “offered”.

( ) “offered”.

Question 4 – Underline the verb in the past perfect tense below:

“[…] a room that Job himself had occupied several times, on occasional visits to Liverpool, but which he was happy to be able to reserve for her […]”

Question 5 – The verb underlined above is in the past perfect tense because it expresses:

( ) a continuous fact in the past.

( ) a fully completed fact.

( ) a fact prior to another past.

By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Letters and specialist in distance education.