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| Autor: | Orlando |
| E-mail: | não-disponível |
| Data: | 03/JUN/2011 4:06 PM |
| Assunto: | I had listened |
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" When I was young I had listened to the radio..... sentence grammatically wrong. At first I thought that "The Carpenters" had made a mistake here too... "When I was young I'd listen to the radio" But later I found out that we can use either 'used to' or 'would', when talking about repeated events and actions in the past. http://www.ecenglish.com/learnenglish/lessons/how-use-would So, either way sounds OK: When I was young I used to listen to the radio. (rhyme and rhythm would be thrown off) Quando eu era jovem, costumava ouvir o rádio When I was young I'd listen to the radio.(good rhythm) Quando eu era jovem, eu ouvia o rádio. (escutaria) ... When I was young my mother used to listen to this song on the radio. Quando eu era jovem, minha mãe costumava ouvir esta canção no radio. If I had listened to the radio when I was young I would have listened to that song too. Se eu tivesse escutado o rádio quando eu era jovem, teria escutado essa música também. |
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I had listened – natileiti 
02/JUN/2011, 6:35 PM I had listened – PPAULO 02/JUN/2011, 7:01 PM I had listened – Josi 02/JUN/2011, 7:02 PM I had listened – Dale-USA 02/JUN/2011, 8:37 PM I had listened – Fran 03/JUN/2011, 1:07 AM I had listened – PPAULO 03/JUN/2011, 1:29 AM 
I had listened – Orlando 03/JUN/2011, 4:06 PM I had listened – natileiti 03/JUN/2011, 5:35 PM I had listened – PPAULO 03/JUN/2011, 9:06 PM