A EPCAR tem um perfil muito claro:
1) AMA confundir:
✔ resultado × duração (Present Perfect vs Present Perfect Continuous)
✔ momento fechado × experiência
✔ ação em progresso × interrupção
2) Idolatram frases com marcadores temporais traiçoeiros:
– yet, already, just, recently, ever, never
– in 2005, yesterday, last week misturados com Perfect
3) Amam armadilhas de ordem cronológica:
– before / after
– when / while
– by the time
4) São apaixonados por “IF” malandro
Nada derruba mais aluno:
→ If + will
→ Mistura dos três condicionais.
5) Eles gostam de frases que parecem fáceis… mas são veneno
EPCAR adora frase curtinha com verbo simples — mas o tempo é o diferencial.
🏛️ B3GE™ – (Item • Exemplo contextual • Pegadinha EEAR)
1) Present Perfect × Simple Past (tempo indefinido × definido)
Exemplo: I have visited Brasília many times, but I first went there in 2015.
Pegadinha EPCAR: misturar advérbio de tempo fechado (in 2015) com Present Perfect — proibido.
2) Past Continuous × Simple Past (ação em progresso × interrupção)
Exemplo: I was studying when the alarm went off.
Pegadinha: aluno coloca was going ou was studied no segundo verbo.
3) Since × For (duração × início)
Exemplo: He has lived here for five years.
Pegadinha: trocar for por since e vice-versa, especialmente com números (5 years = nunca com since).
4) Used to × Would
Exemplo: When I was a child, I would play outside every day.
Pegadinha: usar would para estado (não pode) ou used to antes de objeto no lugar errado.
5) Present Perfect Continuous × Present Perfect
Exemplo: They have been waiting for an hour.
Pegadinha: EPCAR ama misturar result × duração.
6) Future with Will × Going to
Exemplo: Look at those clouds! It’s going to rain.
Pegadinha: usar “will” para previsão baseada em evidência — está errado.
7) Simple Present × Present Continuous
Exemplo: The plane leaves at 8:00 tomorrow.
Pegadinha: aluno coloca “is leaving” por achar que o tempo presente não pode indicar futuro.
8) Past Perfect × Simple Past
Exemplo: She had left before I arrived.
Pegadinha: inverter a ordem — EPCAR ama testar “quem veio primeiro”.
9) Modal Perfect (Should/Would/Could + have + past participle)
Exemplo: You should have told me earlier.
Pegadinha: colocar should had told — ERRO clássico.
10) "Ever / Never" com Present Perfect
Exemplo: Have you ever flown in a glider?
Pegadinha: usar Did you ever? EPCAR DETESTA isso.
11) "Yet / Already / Just" com tempos errados
Exemplo: He has just arrived.
Pegadinha: He just arrived (EPCAR marca errado se o contexto pedir perfect).
12) Conditional I × Conditional II
Exemplo: If I had money, I would buy that jet.
Pegadinha: usar will depois de IF.
13) Conditional III
Exemplo: If he had studied, he would have passed.
Pegadinha: misturar had nos dois verbos (had studied… had passed).
14) Future Perfect × Future Continuous
Exemplo: By 2030, humans will have colonized Mars.
Pegadinha: EPCAR troca por futuro contínuo para confundir resultado × duração.
15) Reported Speech – mudança de tempo
Exemplo: “I am tired,” he said → He said he was tired.
Pegadinha: manter o tempo original quando houver “said”.
16) Still × Already × Yet nos tempos errados
Exemplo: She still hasn’t answered.
Pegadinha: She hasn’t still answered — estrutura proibida.
17) Just × Recently × Lately (Present Perfect)
Exemplo: I have recently finished training.
Pegadinha: usar recently com Simple Past quando a frase indica efeito no presente.
18) “Before / After” com Past Perfect
Exemplo: After he had trained, he felt ready.
Pegadinha: EPCAR gosta de colocar ambos em Simple Past pra confundir.
19) Present Continuous for Future Arrangements
Exemplo: We are meeting the commander tomorrow.
Pegadinha: candidato coloca “will meet” por achar obrigatório.
20) Habitual Past – “used to” × “was used to” (significados diferentes!)
Exemplo:
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I used to fly. = hábito
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I was used to flying. = acostumado
Pegadinha: confundir hábito com adaptação — EPCAR DERRUBA MUITO nisso.
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