Question

It was my daughter’s first day of day care. I couldn’t even kiss her goodbye, because I was sick. I wiped a sticky booger from her nose, worried she was catching my cold. As I watched my husband carry her into school, I thought: “This is the only option.” It was too soon. She was too young. I wasn’t ready. My husband and I didn’t want her to go into day care this early. We had planned to put it off at least another month. But family circumstances changed, and I was running out of paid time off. The first day of day care for my daughter was also the first day my husband was on orders for a new, six-month military assignment – two hours away. Moving the kids to a new day care for the short period didn’t make sense – and we couldn’t immediately find openings anyway. So, he began driving four hours every day. Qual é o tempo verbal predominante? quais indícios do texto comprovam isso?

Answer 1

Resposta:

O tempo verbal predominante é o passado.

O que comprova é

It was = foi.

I couldn’t = não consegui    

I didn’t want = eu não queria.      

We had planned = Nós tínhamos planejado.

Answer 2

Resposta:

O tempo predominante é o passado. É um tempo propício para uma narrativa, como é o caso do referido texto. Os indícios gramaticais são os verbos " was, could, e did", conjugados no passado (past tense).

Explicação:

A resposta está correta, pois a maioria dos verbos que aparecem no texto estão no passado (past tense: simple past ou past perfect).