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Leia os dois parágrafos a seguir para responder às questões de números 66 a 70.
An international student who majors in engineering drops by the engineering department office and asks the secretary, “Can you tell me where the English department is?” The secretary smiles and responds, “I don’t know, actually. It’s probably somewhere in the Humanities Building. Do you have a campus map?” The student turns around and leaves. The secretary is taken aback and feels slightly uncomfortable. She wonders why the student left so abruptly.
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People who interact with ESL students have commented that some seem to express gratitude excessively for small considerations, even to the point of embarrassing the person they are speaking. Others seem downright rude because they do not say thank you when they are expected to.
(Celce-Murcia, M. 2001.)
The fragment “when they are expected to”, which ends the text, is an instance of passive voice. According to Celce-Murcia and Larsen-Freeman (1999), there are semantic constraints that make the transformation from passive to active voice inadequate. Select the alternative which represents one such situation.
Leia os dois parágrafos a seguir para responder às questões de números 66 a 70.
An international student who majors in engineering drops by the engineering department office and asks the secretary, “Can you tell me where the English department is?” The secretary smiles and responds, “I don’t know, actually. It’s probably somewhere in the Humanities Building. Do you have a campus map?” The student turns around and leaves. The secretary is taken aback and feels slightly uncomfortable. She wonders why the student left so abruptly.
(...)
People who interact with ESL students have commented that some seem to express gratitude excessively for small considerations, even to the point of embarrassing the person they are speaking. Others seem downright rude because they do not say thank you when they are expected to.
(Celce-Murcia, M. 2001.)
The fragment “when they are expected to”, which ends the text, is an instance of passive voice. According to Celce-Murcia and Larsen-Freeman (1999), there are semantic constraints that make the transformation from passive to active voice inadequate. Select the alternative which represents one such situation.
Resolução comentada
A passiva impessoal 'It is rumored that...' não tem agente e não pode ser convertida em ativa.
Em 'It is rumored that he will become the next manager' não há agente expresso nem sujeito lógico definido; a conversão para a ativa exigiria inventar um sujeito (ex.: 'People rumor...'), alterando o sentido. Nas demais há agente ou sujeito claro, e a transformação é possível.
Análise das alternativas
A) Possível: 'Someone is mining precious stones...'. C) Possível: 'William Wordsworth wrote the poem.' D) Possível: 'The Queen knighted him...'. E) Possível: 'Someone gave the child a dog...'.
Referência: Celce-Murcia e Larsen-Freeman (1999), restrições semânticas à voz passiva.
Resolução comentada do VaiConcursos.