Questão de Inglês — Verbos | Verbs — Fundação CETREDE 2026
InglêsVerbos | Verbs
- Código
- qg698660
- Banca
- Fundação CETREDE
- Órgão
- Prefeitura de Maracanaú - CE
- Ano
- 2026
- Nível
- Superior
- Cargo
- Professor da Educação Básica - Língua Inglesa - 6º ao 9º Ano
A student writes “I was walking home when I saw him” and “I walked home when I was seeing him” in a narrative. Mark the CORRECT point about past simple and past continuous.
- APast continuous usually presents a finished sequence, while past simple sets the scene, so was walking signals completion and saw signals background information for the reader.
- BPast simple and past continuous differ mainly in formality, so the first sentence is informal and the second is formal, with meaning kept stable in narratives.
- CPast continuous frames an ongoing background, while past simple marks the event within it, which is why was walking pairs naturally with saw in that narrative moment.
- DPast continuous is preferred for punctual actions, while past simple suits longer processes, so was walking suggests a brief act and walked suggests extended duration.
- EThe two tenses function similarly after when, so both sentences can be treated as equivalent, and variation reflects mainly style and rhythm in narrative writing.