Verb tenses I

Verb tenses

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​The museum declined to disclose how much it paid for "The torment of Saint Anthony"

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​'This is one of the greatest rediscoveries in the history of art.'

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​The Kimbell Art Museum will soon be the only US museum to display a Michelangelo painting...

​Verb sentences

​They examined the painting.

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​SUBJECT + VERB + COMPLEMENT

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​I visit the Eiffel Tower today.

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These verbs express the action the subject practices -> action verbs

​These constructions are spetacular.

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​It was his earliest work.

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​Stative verbs - verbs that express states or conditions, possession, senses, emotions and mental states.

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​I have a car.

​It smells great in here.

​You look tired.

​He really appreciated my help.

​VERB TENSES - ​ used to indicate time.

​Identification:

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​People move into cities - present

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​They examined the painting - past

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​The challenges for urban planners will also grow - future

​PRESENT

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​People move into cities - present

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Urban planning deals with the physical, economic, and social development of cities.

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Today, urban populations are increasing rapidly.

​ (auxiliar + principal)

​PAST

They employed a French planner and architect.

​He painted it when he was only 12 or 13 years old.

​They were able to see how the artist made certain brush strokes.

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​(auxiliar + principal)

​The painting was exhibited as late as 1874 in Paris.

​I was watching TV earlier.

​They had told the facts when the reporters arrived.

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​* Scientists have researched about this virus.

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Multiple Choice

Em "the city had to rethink its needs"

• Had está no presente e rethink no passado

• Had está no passado e rethink no infinitivo

• Had está no futuro e rethink no presente

Multiple Choice

Em "city planners are continually searching for solutions to the problems"

• há apenas 1 verbo, que está no presente

• há 2 verbos, um no presente e outro no infinitivo

• há 2 verbos, ambos no presente

Multiple Choice

A oração "I was taking a bath when the bell rang"

• está no passado

• está no presente

• está no futuro

Multiple Choice

Em "the painting was kept privately"

• há 2 verbos regulares e independentes

• há 1 verbo irregular e 1 regular, funcionando de forma independente

• há 2 verbos irregulares e dependentes

• há 1 verbo irregular e 1 regular, dependentes um do outro

Multiple Choice

Qual a forma passada dos verbos a seguir?

"Questions about its authenticity ____ (have) _____(surface) through the years"

• haved / surfaced

• haved / surfaceed

• had / surfaceed

• had / surfaced

​Read the text Early human development: Capacities of new born and answer the following questions.

Open Ended

What's the main idea of the text?

Multiple Choice

Which tenses was the text written in?

• Past, present and infinitive

• Past, present, future and infinitive

• Present, infinitive and future

Multiple Choice

In "at the end of the  nineteenth century, psychologist William James suggested that the newborn child experiences the world as a 'buzzing, blooming confusion'";

• the sentence refers only to past time

• the sentence refers only to the present time

• the sentence refers to the present and past times, respectively.

• the sentence refers to the past and present times, respectively.

Multiple Choice

How many different verbs are there in "babies cannot explain what they are doing or tell us what they are thinking"?

• 4

• 5

• 6

• 7

1. ​What method do psychologists use to discover babies' abilities?

2. ​According to the study, how is the view of babies?

3. ​Using scanning in paragraph D, how do infants' visual attention differ from that of adults?

4. ​What is said in the text about the hearing of babies in the fourth month of life?

5. ​What is covered in the text about the taste of babies?

6. ​According to the text, how important is it that babies know how to distinguish different odors?