Questão 2190139

• Banca: NUCEPE
• Órgão: Prefeitura de Teresina - PI
• Ano: 2016
• Provas: NUCEPE - 2016 - Prefeitura de Teresina - PI - Professor - Língua Inglesa
• Disciplina: Inglês
• Assuntos: Pronome relativo | Relative clauses; Pronomes | Pronouns

“Mr. Preaud and his wife, who is pregnant, hit the ground as people screamed, “Get down, get down!” After the second explosion, he looked up to see a giant fan — part of an air-conditioning unit — that had landed near them. They had been eating at a Délifrance, talking about Salah Abdeslam, the terrorism suspect who was arrested in Brussels on Friday after a four-month global manhunt.”

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/23/world/europe /brussels (adapted). Access: March 23^rd, 2016.  

The clause “who is pregnant”, in “Mr. Preaud and his wife, who is pregnant, hit the ground as people screamed, “Get down, get down!” is a

• A. maintenance clause.
• B. temporal clause.
• C. relative clause.
• D. stylistic clause.
• E. summary clause.

Gabarito: C

Comentários

• WHO é um pronome relativo!

• -c

  Relative clauses are set off with the relative pronouns who, that, which, whose, where and when. They are used when it's necessary to define the noun that precedes them.