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A man has been rescued from a near-fatal attack by a tiger in northern Malaysia by his wife.
She entered the fray wielding a wooden soup ladle at the tiger - which fled.
Tambun Gediu, now badly lacerated and recovering in hospital, had tried hitting the tiger away in vain and says his wife saved his life.
Wildlife rangers plan to track the tiger and send it further into dense, unpopulated jungle in the northern state of Perak.
"I was trailing a squirrel and crouched to shoot it with my blowpipe when I saw the tiger.
"That's when I realised that I was being trailed," Mr Gediu said after surgery.
The tiger pounced not far from the Gediu home in a jungle settlement of the Jahai tribe.
Mr. Gediu had tried climbing a tree to escape the animal, but was dragged down by the tiger.
His wife, 55-year old Han Besau, rushed out of the kitchen on hearing his screams and used the kitchen implement to good effect.
"I was terrified and I used all my strength to punch the animal in the face, but it would not budge," the New Straits Times newspaper quoted him as saying.
"I had to wrestle with it to keep its jaws away from me, and it would have clawed me to death if my wife had not arrived."
It was the first time anyone in the village had been attacked by a tiger.
The director of the Department of Wildlife and National Parks in the state, Shabrina Mohd Shariff, estimated that there were about 200 tigers in the jungles of Perak.
She added that five had been spotted near the major East-West Highway in the region.

Retire do texto anterior duas orações na voz passiva, sendo uma no tempo verbal Passado Simples e a outra no tempo verbal Passado Contínuo

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A voz passiva é usada quando o sujeito sofre a ação da frase, logo, no Passado Simples temos a oração "Mr. Gediu [...] was dragged down by the tiger." Já no Passado Contínuo, temos "I was being trailed, [...]".

No Inglês, a Passive Voice, enfatiza o receptor da ação, ou seja, o sujeito paciente, aquele que sofre a ação. No Passado Simples, usamos was/were + verbo principal no Passado Particípio:

• The house was cleaned. (A casa foi limpa)
• The food wasn't made by me. (A comida não foi feita por mim)

Já no Passado Contínuo, usamos was/were + being + verbo principal no Passado Particípio:

• I was being judged by my friends. (Eu estava sendo julgado pelos meus amigos)
• The photos weren't being taken by Paul. (As fotos não estavam sendo tiradas pelo Paul).