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O tempo verbal Past Continuous (Passado Contínuo) é utilizado para descrever uma ação que estava em progresso (inacabada) em um determinado momento do passado. Muito comumente, essa ação não acabada é colocada como algo que estava em progresso quando algum outro fato ocorreu, também no passado. SILVA, Marcelo José da. Língua Inglesa II. Maringá-Pr.: UniCesumar, 2014. Reimpresso em 2019.​ Diante do exposto, leia o texto, com especial atenção ao uso dos tempos verbais Past Continuous e Past Simple.​ Where were you when man first landed on the Moon? By David Sillito It is claimed that 22 million watched the coverage of Neil Armstrong's historic moonwalk in Britain on the day, but the number who actually saw it live was probably rather smaller because it was an event that unexpectedly took place in the middle of the night, UK time. But for many who did manage to make it to the big moment, it was life-changing. Fifty years on, we speak to three people who have been contributing to a UK Space Project/AHRC project, Moon Memories. It was not part of the plan. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were supposed to be settling down for a rest but the BBC's Apollo 11 programme presenter James Burke listened in to the communications from the lunar surface and realised they had changed their minds and were preparing to step on to the Moon. However, no-one could tell them when they would emerge. What should have been a short update programme at 11:32pm became the BBC's first all-night broadcast. Burke was a bit tense. If he had got it wrong, there would be consequences. In Dagenham, Jackie Burns was 11 years old and sitting in the gym of her school. She, like most of her friends' families, did not have access to a television and so the school had opened its doors on a Sunday evening to parents and children. They had watched the coverage of the touchdown and the plan was to go home and return at seven o'clock to watch the first moonwalk. When news came that it might happen overnight, everyone decided to stay. The problem was there was nothing to watch other than the BBC's presenters talking among themselves. "The children got very bored and they were getting up and running around," says Burns. "And the parents were chatting amongst themselves and the noise volume was going up. And there I am dodging trying to see and I am getting so frustrated with it, because I so wanted to see it. I burst in to tears." In Ashford-in-the-Water, a small village in the Derbyshire Peaks, 13-year-old Nigel Shadbolt was heading downstairs. The rest of the family had long gone to bed but he did not want to miss the crucial moment. "I was thinking I'd never been up this late," Shadbolt recalls. "We had a grainy Philips TV, I was crouched down in front of it thinking how loud can I have it because I did not want to wake people upstairs. I was just incredibly excited and also worried that continental interference would do for the whole project because in those days the TV signal would come in and out in the summertime." (...) In the studio, James Burke, Patrick Moore and Cliff Michelmore were trying their best to keep things going without any pictures from the Moon. Finally at around 3:45am Burke began to hear definite signs that the astronauts were about to open the door and swing the camera out to show Neil Armstrong step on to the Moon. (...) Disponível em: . Acesso em 21 de jul. 2019. Adaptado. ​Considerando o texto lido, leia as assertivas que seguem: I - O texto apresenta onde algumas pessoas estavam e o que elas estavam fazendo no dia em que a imprensa noticiou o homem pisando na lua pela primeira vez.
II - Em “The problem was there was nothing to watch other than the BBC's presenters talking among themselves”, o Past Continuous aparece em "was nothing", oração em que o sujeito é The problem.
III - Em “In Dagenham, Jackie Burns was 11 years old and sitting in the gym of her school”, o verbo was é utilizado para indicar a idade de Jackie Burns, e, ainda, como parte da estrutura do verbo sit no Past Continuous.
IV - O trecho “But for many who did manage to make it to the big moment, it was life-changing”, faz uso do Past Continuous para explicar que os repórteres que noticiaram a chegada do homem à lua sabiam que estavam mudando a vida de outras por meio daquela transmissão.

É correto o que se afirma em:

Answer 1

Resposta:

Coloquei I e III

Explicação:

a estrutura do past continuous requer algum verbo com -ing. nas alterativas II e IV não há nenhum verbo assim, portanto acredito que seja I e III.

na I o texto realmente fala sobre o que estavam fazendo no dia que foram a lua.

III está correta