Questão 1022062

• Banca: IBFC
• Órgão: PM-RJ
• Ano: 2012
• Provas: IBFC - 2012 - PM-RJ - Aspirante da Polícia Militar - Inglês
• Disciplina: Inglês
• Assuntos: Aspectos linguísticos | Linguistic aspects

Read the following sentences I, II, III and IV:

I. Go fetch, Fido.
II. Go fetch Fido.
III. Looking at it from the employee’s perspective, I can see we need to change something.
IV. Looking at it from the employee’s perspective I can see we need to change something.

It’s correct to say that

• A. comma wasn’t used in sentence II, but it doesn’t change the meaning of the sentence, if compared with sentence I.
• B. the use of a comma in sentence I let the meaning of the sentences I and II be different
• C. comma wasn’t used in sentence IV, but it doesn’t change the meaning of the sentence, if compared with sentence III
• D. the use comma in sentence III let the meaning of the sentences III and IV be different .

Gabarito: B

Comentários

• b) the use of a comma in sentence I let the meaning of the sentences I and II be different.
  
  The vocative case is the case used for a noun that identifies a person being addressed or, occasionally, the determiners of that noun. A vocative expression is an expression of direct address where the identity of the party spoken to is set forth expressly within a sentence.
  
  SOb vocativo, podemos entender comumente que é uma forma especial de designar um nome para o qual é necessário se dirigir no discurso, separado por vírgula.