Questões de Discurso direto e indireto | Reported speech (Inglês)

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The principal said to the students: “Don’t bring drugs to school”.


Choose the alternative that expresses the above sentence in reported speech:

  • A The principal told the students not to bring drugs to school.
  • B The students were told to didn’t bring drugs to school.
  • C The principal advised to the students to not bring drugs to school.
  • D The school principal warned all the students about not bring drugs to school.

“In many parts of the world, access to quality education is not universal, and disparities in educational opportunities persist along socioeconomic, geographic, and gender lines.” If this statement was reported indirectly, it would most accurately be expressed as: The author claimed that:

  • A in many parts of the world, access to quality education was not universal, and disparities in educational opportunities had persisted along socioeconomic, geographic, and gender lines
  • B in many parts of the world, access to quality education was not universal, and disparities in educational opportunities persisted along socioeconomic, geographic, and gender
  • C in many parts of the world, access to quality education had not been universal, and disparities in educational opportunities have persisted along socioeconomic, geographic, and gender
  • D in many parts of the world, access to quality education has not been universal, and disparities in educational opportunities are persisting along socioeconomic, geographic, and gender

Examine the sentence structure: "Professor Mookherjee said she was honoured to receive the 2025 Rivers Memorial Medal, adding: 'The research among various communities has meant so much for my learning, thinking, writing and teaching.'" What type of syntactic construction is represented by the relationship between the main clause and the quoted speech?

  • A A compound sentence with two independent clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction.
  • B A complex sentence with reported speech followed by direct speech.
  • C A compound-complex sentence with embedded relative clauses.
  • D A simple sentence with multiple predicates.

Converting a statement from the text into formal reported speech, which option correctly reports: "The Spanish first contacted the Maya culture in the Yucatan"?

  • A The chronicler wrote that the Spanish first had contact with the Maya culture in the Yucatan, in present.
  • B The chronicler wrote the Spanish have first contacted the Maya culture in the Yucatan.
  • C The chronicler wrote that the Spanish had first contacted the Maya culture in the Yucatan.
  • D The chronicler write that the Spanish has first contact the Maya culture in the Yucatan.
  • E The chronicler wrote that the Spanish first contact the Maya culture in the Yucatan.

“Watch and listen to strangers on buses or in shops to gather ideas.”

Assinale a alternativa que transforma a recomendação direta citada em um pedido ou sugestão mais polida, sem alteração do seu sentido básico.

  • A You must watch and listen to strangers on buses or in shops to gather ideas.
  • B You should watch and listen to strangers on buses or in shops to gather ideas.
  • C You need to watch and listen to strangers on buses or in shops to gather ideas.
  • D Don’t forget to watch and listen to strangers on buses or in shops to gather ideas.
  • E Watch and listen politely to strangers on buses or in shops to gather ideas.