Activities: “What is the past perfect in Brazilian Portuguese?”
Activity 1: Form the compound past perfect
Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the compound past perfect tense of the verbs in parentheses.
Eu não estava com fome porque eu já (almoçar).
Nós chegamos atrasadas porque (perder) o ônibus.
As crianças ainda não (tomar) banho quando os pais chegaram.
Quando eu cheguei em casa, minha irmã já (sair).
Eles não se perderam porque já (visitar) aquele lugar.
Eu nunca (andar) de barco até hoje, mas estou adorando!
Activity 2: Paulo’s novel
Paulo is writing a novel. He’s put a passage from it below, in which he sometimes uses the simple past perfect. But now that he’s editing, he decides he wants to use the compound past perfect instead, to give the story a more informal tone.
Part 1: Identify the past perfect
First, select each of the seven verbs in the simple past perfect:
Part 2: Change the form of the verbs
Now transform each of the verbs you selected above into their compound past perfect forms, as illustrated below:
ex: trabalhara → tinha trabalhado
