Questão 2856406

• Banca: COSEAC
• Órgão: Prefeitura de Maricá - RJ
• Ano: 2018
• Provas: COSEAC - 2018 - Prefeitura de Maricá - RJ - Docente I - Língua Estrangeira - Inglês
• Disciplina: Inglês
• Assuntos: Verbos modais | Modal verbs; Verbos | Verbs

TEXT 1 below, retrieved and adapted from https://chroniclingamerica. loc.gov/lccn/sn83035487/1851-06-21/ed-1/seq-4/ on July 9th, 2018.

Text 1 

                    Women’s rights convention – Sojourner Truth

      One of the most unique and interesting speeches of the convention was made by Sojourner Truth, an emancipated slave. It is impossible to transfer it to paper or convey any adequate idea of the effect it produced upon the audience. Those only can appreciate it who saw her powerful form, her whole-souled, earnest gesture, and listened to her strong and truthful tones. She came forward to the platform and addressing the President said with great simplicity:

      "May I say a few words?" Receiving an affirmative answer, she proceeded: I want to say a few words about this matter. I am a woman's rights. I have as much muscle as any man and can do as much work as any man. I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that? I have heard much about the sexes being equal. I can carry as much as any man, and can eat as much too, if I can get it. I am as strong as any man that is now. As for intellect, all I can say is, if a woman has a pint, and a man a quart -- why can't she have her little pint full? You need not be afraid to give us our rights for fear we will take too much; -- for we can't take more than our pint will hold. The poor men seem to be all in confusion, and don't know what to do. Why children, if you have woman's rights, give it to her and you will feel better. You will have your own rights, and they won't be so much trouble. I can't read, but I can hear. I have heard the bible and have learned that Eve caused man to sin. Well, if a woman upset the world, do give her a chance to set it right side up again. The Lady has spoken about Jesus, how he never spurned woman from him, and she was right. When Lazarus died, Mary and Martha came to him with faith and love and besought him to raise their brother. And Jesus wept and Lazarus came forth. And how came Jesus into the world? Through God who created him and the woman who bore him. Man, where was your part? But the women are coming up blessed be God and a few of the men are coming up with them. But man is in a tight place, the poor slave is on him, woman is coming on him, he is surely between a hawk and a buzzard.

Reference: Robinson, M. (1851, June 21). Women’s rights convention: Sojourner Truth. Anti-slavery Bugle, vol. 6 no. 41, Page 160.

This question must be answered by looking at the following sentence from Text 1:

“May I say a few words?”

We may keep the sentence grammatically correct by substituting “May” for: 

• A. should.
• B. must.
• C. could.
• D. did.
• E. need.

Gabarito: C

Comentários

• Gabarito: C

  Tanto "May" quanto "Could" indicam uma possibilidade.

  "Posso dizer algumas palavras?"

• A questão cobra o conhecimento dos verbos modais. A principal característica dos modal verbs é acompanhar o verbo principal de uma frase, indicando uma possibilidade, permissão, habilidade/capacidade, necessidade, obrigação, proibição. 

  São exemplos de verbos modais:

  Can = expressa permissão, capacidade, habilidade e possibilidade

  Could = expressa permissão, habilidade e possibilidade

  May = expressa pedido, possibilidade, permissão

  Might = Passado de “may”, por isso carrega o mesmo significado de possibilidade, mas, por ser passado, trazendo o sentido de menos probabilidade.

  Should = expressa conselho, recomendação, sugestão

  Must = expressa obrigação, proibição ou dedução

  Ought to = expressa conselho

  Used to = Ideia de costume/hábito

  Would = expressa pedido, desejo

  Segue tradução do enunciado:

  This question must be answered by looking at the following sentence from Text 1:

  “May I say a few words?”

  We may keep the sentence grammatically correct by substituting “May” for: 

  Esta pergunta deve ser respondida olhando para a seguinte frase do Texto 1:

  “Posso dizer algumas palavras?”

  Podemos manter a frase gramaticalmente correta substituindo “May” por:

  A) Incorreta - should.

  B) Incorreta - must.

  C) Correta - could.

  Sabendo que a frase expressa o sentido de permissão, de acordo com a tabela acima, vemos que o verbo que também expressa esse sentido é o could.

  D) Incorreta - did.

  E) Incorreta - need.

  Gabarito: C