“The Past Simple tense is very useful when we want to talk about actions that were repeated in the past and it is very frequently used in narratives, such as short stories”. (KIMINAMI, 2018, p. 39). KIMINAMI, Aline Yuri. Práticas Discursivas da Língua Inglesa. Maringá-Pr.: UniCesumar, 2018. Read the following excerpt from “The Black Cat” by Edgar Allan Poe: “I married early, and was happy to find in my wife a disposition not uncongenial with my own. Observing my partiality for domestic pets, she lost no opportunity of procuring those of the most agreeable kind. We had birds, gold-fish, a fine dog, rabbits, a small monkey, and a cat”. Disponível em: . Acesso em: 19 set. de 2019. Taking the excerpt into account and the information about the past simple tense, analyze the following statements. I. After reading this excerpt, we can find some verbs in the past simple tense, such as: married, was, lost, had. II. This short story was written in the past simple tense and the verbs “married”, “was”, “lost”, “had” used in this excerpt are, respectively, “marry”, “to be”, “lose”, “have” in the infinitive form. III. We have regular and irregular verbs in the past simple form. Analyzing the verbs from the short story excerpt, we can see that “married”, “was”, “lost”, “had” are all irregular verbs. IV. We have regular and irregular verbs in the past simple form. Analyzing the verbs from the short story excerpt, we can see that “married”, “was”, “lost”, “had” are all regular verbs. It is correct what is stated on:
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Está correto o que se afirma em I e II, apenas.
Analisando o texto e as afirmações feitas, temos:
I. (V) Os verbos no past simple são married, was, lost, had. Outros verbos que não estão no past simple são to find, observing e procuring.
II. (V) No infinito, os verbos married, was, lost e had são, respectivamente, marry, to be, lose e have.
III. (F) O verbo married é um verbo regular, pois de acordo com a regra, verbos terminados em y deve-se substituir o y por ied. Já verbos irregulares não possuem regras de conjugação.
IV. (F) Pelo mesmo motivo acima, os verbos was, lost e had são verbos irregulares.
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