REPORTED SPEECH – ITA/2014/2015 – LÍNGUA INGLESA – QUESTÃO COMENTADA.

 Welcome back to another post!

➧ TEXTO:

THE MAN IN THE CONVERTIBLE        

One morning, well after I was diagnosed with cancer, I got an email from Robbee Kosak, Carnegie Mellon's vice president for advancement. She told me a story.         

She said she had been driving home from work the night before, and she found herself behind a man in a convertible. It was a warm, gorgeous, early-spring evening, and the man had his top down and all his windows lowered. His arm was hanging over the driver’s side door, and his fingers were tapping along to the music on his radio. His head was bobbing along, too, as the wind blew through his hair.

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Fonte: PAUSCH, R. The last lecture.

New York, Hyperion, 2008. p.64-65.

➧ QUESTÃO – (ITA-2014/2015)

Na frase 

"She said she had been driving home from work the night before, and she found herself behind a man in a convertible" (linhas 3 e 4), 

a formação correta quanto ao uso do discurso direto é:

(A) She said: "I was driving home from work last night, and I found myself behind a man in a convertible".
(B) She said: “I had been driving home from work last night, and I found me behind a man in a convertible”.
(C) She said: “I drove home yesterday night from work, and I had found myself behind a man in a convertible”.
(D) She said: “I had driven home the night before, and I found myself behind a man in a convertible”.
(E) She said: “I was driving home from work yesterday, and I was finding myself behind a man in a convertible”.

Resposta :  A

➧ Questão sobre REPORTED  SPEECH:

➧ DICAS – BIZU FEROZ:

1) PASSADO CONTÍNUO (no RELATO DIRETO) vira PASSADO PERFEITO CONTÍNUO (no RELATO INDIRETO:

• RELATO DIRETO [WAS/WERE + Participle Present].
• RELATO INDIRETO [HAD BEEN + Participle Past].

 2) A SENTENÇA DADA É UM RELATO INDIRETO:

• She said she had been driving home from work the night before, and she found herself behind a man in a convertible.

3) A estrutura verbal HAD BEES DRIVING (no relato indireto) é um indicativo que o relato direto está no passado contínuo WAS DRIVING.

* WAS DRIVING (PASSADO CONTÍNUO no relato direto)
* HAD BEES DRIVING (PASSADO PERFEITO CONTÍNUO no relato indireto).

• RELATO DIRETO:  ... WAS DRIVING ....

- ELIMINADAS DE IMEDIATO AS OPÇÕES (B), (C) e (D)
- Restaram as opções (A) e (E):

(A) She said: "I was driving home from work last night, and I found myself behind a man in a convertible".

(E) She said: “I was driving home from work yesterday, and I was finding myself behind a man in a convertible”.

4 – Em uma sentença, usamos  PASSADO CONTÍNUO (WAS DRIVING) COM PASSADO SIMPLES (FOUND) E NÃO COM OUTRO PASSADO CONTÍNUO (was finding). Sendo assim, a opção (A) é a alternativa correta:

• She said: "I was driving home from work last night, and I found myself behind a man in a convertible"..

➧ RESOLUÇÃO RÁPIDA:

Na frase 

"She said she had been driving home from work the night before, and she found herself behind a man in a convertible" (linhas 3 e 4), 

a formação correta quanto ao uso do discurso direto é:

(A) She said: "I was driving home from work last night, and I found myself behind a man in a convertible". (PASSADO CONTÍNUO)
(B) She said: “I had been driving home from work last night, and I found me behind a man in a convertible”. (PASSADO PERFEITO CONTÍNUO)
(C) She said: “I drove home yesterday night from work, and I had found myself behind a man in a convertible”. (PASSADO S[IMPLES)
(D) She said: “I had driven home the night before, and I found myself behind a man in a convertible”.(PASSADO PERFEITO)
(E) She said: “I was driving home from work yesterday, and I was finding myself behind a man in a convertible”. (ERRO DE DOIS TEMPOS VERBAIS IGUAIS NA MESMA SENTENÇA)