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Sobre passado perfeito | past perfect em inglês
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Which verb tense the sentence below refer to?
"Has he been driving everyday?"
I - My brother has been teasing me since this morning. II - I am reading an excellent book. III - I have been to England twice. IV - My husband works everyday.
Chose the alternative that fills the gaps below CORRECTLY:
He ________ really pleased that she ________ there.
I. He took the photos. II. He had taken the photos by the time the owner arrived. III. He was taking the photos when the owner arrived. IV. He had been taking the photos before the owner arrived.
“I _________ a ring to my girlfriend before I _________ to her.”
Complete the sentence below with the correct verbs. Choose the CORRECT answer.
“He _________ breakfast before he _________ his teeth.”
The verb tenses used in the sentence is:
Instruction: Answer question based on the following text.

Source: https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/the-eurohug-is-it-a-thing-a-global-guide-toembrace
I - To talk about permanent situations II - To talk about habitual situations III - In time clauses IV - In zero conditionals V - Future intentions VI - Events based on a timetable or known date
I - Once I had finished work, I went home II - I was cuting up vegetables in the kitchen when I heard it on the TV. III - Ellen has eaten no meat since she was six. IV - He believe in ghosts. V - I regularly play the piano.
Planet’s ocean-plastics problem detailed in 60-year data set
Researchers find evidence of rising plastic pollution in an accidental source: log books for planktonmonitoring instruments. Matthew Warren
Scientists have uncovered the first strong evidence that the amount of plastic polluting the oceans has risen vastly in recent decades — by analysing 60 years of log books for plankton-tracking vessels.
Data recorded by instruments known as continuous plankton recorders (CPRs) — which ships have collectively towed millions of kilometres across the Atlantic Ocean — show that the trackers have become entangled in large plastic objects, such as bags and fishing lines, roughly three times more often since 2000 than in preceding decades.
This is the first time that researchers have demonstrated the rise in ocean plastics using a single, longterm data set, says Erik van Sebille, an oceanographer at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. “I’m excited that this has been finally done,” he says. The analysis was published on 16 April in Nature Communications.
Although the findings are unsurprising, long-term data on ocean plastics had been scant: previous studies looked mainly at the ingestion of plastic by sea creatures over shorter timescales, the researchers say.
Fishing for data
CPRs are torpedo-like devices that have been used since 1931 to survey plankton populations, by filtering the organisms from the water using bands of silk. Today, volunteer ships such as ferries and container ships tow a fleet of CPRs around the world’s oceans.
(…)Each time a ship tows a CPR, the crew fills in a log book and notes any problems with the device. So Ostle and her colleagues looked through all tow logs from the North Atlantic between 1957 and 2016, to determine whether plastic entanglements have become more common.
Evidence analysis
(…)Van Sebille says that because the study focused on large plastic items, it doesn’t reveal much about the quantity of microplastics — fragments fewer than 5 millimetres long — in the oceans. These tiny contaminants come from sources such as disposable plastic packaging, rather than from fishing gear.
Nevertheless, he adds, the study demonstrates that fisheries play a major part in plastic pollution, and will provide useful baseline data for tracking whether policy changes affect the levels of plastic in the oceans. “As fisheries become more professional, especially in the North Sea, hopefully we might see a decrease,” he says.
Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01252-0 (adapted).
Access: April 20th, 2019


A man stepped onto the overnight train and told the conductor, “I need you to wake me up in Philadelphia. I'm a deep sleeper and can be angry when I get up, but no matter what, I want you to help me make that stop. Here's $100 to make sure".
The conductor agreed. The man fell asleep, and when he awoke he heard the announcement that the train was approaching New York, which meant they had passed Philadelphia a long time ago. Furious, he ran to the conductor. “I gave you $100 to make sure I got off in Philadelphia, you idiot!" “Wow," another passenger said to his traveling companion. “Is that guy mad!" “Yeah," his companion replied. “But not half as mad as that guy they forced off the train in Philadelphia."
(English2Go, No 7,The Reader's Digest Association, 2005. P. 80.)
Choose the item that does NOT belong in the group.
In the sentence “A crossing in central London had programmed intervals for red and green lights” (l.14-15), the underlined verbal locution is in the ________________. If we put it in the present perfect continuous, it would be written as ______________.
Mark the alternative that correctly and respectively fill in the blanks above.
I. These bees ___________ kept in a large hive before they were taken out and examined by the beekeeper.
II. A thief came into his house, tied him up, took his money, and left. He ___________ tied up for several hours.
III. John doesn't cook very well. He _____________ helped by his wife.
IV. Amanda is pregnant. She expects her baby ______________ in November.
The conductor agreed. The man fell asleep, and when he awoke he heard the announcement that the train was approaching New York, which meant they had passed Philadelphia a long time ago. Furious, he ran to the conductor. “I gave you $100 to make sure I got off in Philadelphia, you idiot!" “Wow," another passenger said to his traveling companion. “Is that guy mad!" “Yeah," his companion replied. “But not half as mad as that guy they forced off the train in Philadelphia."
(English2Go, No 7,The Reader's Digest Association, 2005. P. 80.)
In “They had passed Philadelphia a long time ago" the verb tense is a:

