Questão 5077597

• Banca: IDIB
• Órgão: Prefeitura de Jaguaribe - CE
• Ano: 2020
• Provas: IDIB - 2020 - Prefeitura de Jaguaribe - CE - Professor - Inglês
• Disciplina: Inglês
• Assuntos: Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension; Verbos | Verbs

GEORGE FLOYD, FROM ‘I WANT TO TOUCH THE WORLD’ TO ‘I CAN’T BREATHE’

Mr. Floyd had big plans for life nearly 30 years ago. His death in police custody is powering a movement against police brutality and racial injustice.

HOUSTON — It was the last day of 11th grade at Jack Yates High School in Houston, nearly three decades ago. A group of close friends, on their way home, were contemplating what senior year and beyond would bring. They were black teenagers on the precipice of manhood. What, they asked one another, did they want to do with their lives?

 “George turned to me and said, ‘I want to touch the world,’” said Jonathan Veal, 45, recalling the aspiration of one of the young men — a tall, gregarious star athlete named George Floyd whom he had met in the school cafeteria on the first day of sixth grade. To their 17-year-old minds, touching the world maybe meant the N.B.A. or the N.F.L.

“It was one of the first moments I remembered after learning what happened to him,” Mr. Veal said. “He could not have imagined that this is the tragic way people would know his name.”

The world now knows George Perry Floyd Jr. through his final harrowing moments, as he begged for air, his face wedged for nearly nine minutes between a city street and a police officer’s knee.

https://www.nytimes.com/article/george-floyd-who-is.html

“It was one of the first moments I remembered after learning what happened to him.”

Which sentence below has the same justification about the use of -ing as in the one above?

• A. I’m tired of hearing excuses.
• B. She said you were calling her last night.
• C. She was having such a great time with the crew.
• D. Joshua will be sending you some e-mails.

Gabarito: A

Comentários

• Apresente questão diz respeito ao uso das formas nominais dos verbos, especificamente do uso do gerúndio (ING form). Deve o candidato indicar alternativa cujo exemplo tem a mesma justificativa para o uso do gerúndio que a frase: “It was one of the first moments I remembered after learning what happened to him."
  
  
  O verbo no gerúndio será usado no lugar de um substantivo, isto é, como forma nominal nas seguintes situações: (a) como sujeito de uma oração; (b) após preposições; (c) como complemento de certos verbos; (d) como complemento de determinadas expressões idiomáticas (ex.: “can't help" – “I can't help falling in love with you.").
  
  Na frase sob análise, o gerúndio (“learnING") segue o uso da preposição “after". Por tanto, o candidato deve escolher a opção que traz o uso do gerúndio após uma preposição.
  
  Alternativa A.
  
  CORRETA. O gerúndio é usado após a preposição “of". Veja: “I'm tired of hearing excuses.
  
  Alternativa B.
  
  ERRADA. Trata-se do “past continuous". Aqui a forma -ING compõe o “verb complex", isto é, não estamos diante da forma nominal do verbo.
  
  Alternativa C.
  
  ERRADA. Mais uma vez foi usado o “past continuous", a forma -ING represente o “presente participle."
  
  Alternativa D.
  
  ERRADA. Nessa frase temos o “future continuous" e a forma -ING é o “present participle", não o gerúndio.
  
  
  GABARITO DO PROFESSOR: LETRA A.

• a-

  If we want to use a verb after a preposition, it must be in -ing form. It is impossible to use an infinitive after a preposition.

  https://www.englishclub.com/grammar/verbs-ing-form.htm