Questão 97505 de Língua Inglesa - FGV 2025

Questão

ID 97505

Disciplina: Língua Inglesa

Assunto: Discurso Direto e Indireto | Reported Speech

Ano: 2025 Banca: FGV - Fundação Getúlio Vargas Órgão: Secretaria de Estado de Educação de Mato Grosso

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Is other a verb?

Like many English words, other possesses great flexibility in meaning and function. Over the past few centuries, it has served as an adjective, an adverb, a noun, and a pronoun. In recent decades, other has increased its part-of-speech portfolio to include verb use, having acquired the meaning "to treat or consider (a person or a group of people) as alien to oneself or one's group.” Some people find it disconcerting when a word takes on a new part of speech, a process known as functional shift. The phenomenon is quite common, however -- our language contains many thousands of words which are reported to have been formed in this fashion.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/other.

The stretch of text “many thousands of words which are reported to have been formed in this fashion” is an example of impersonal passive voice — which shows, for instance, what an unspecified group of people say or believe. One instance of this type of passive is

Alternativa A:
The family were believed to have gone missing as a result of extreme weather events.
Alternativa B:
NGO's now have their likelihood of securing grant funding for impactful social projects increased with grants from the UNO.
Alternativa C:
The spectators were taken aback seeing the chaos caused by the fall of the grandstand.
Alternativa D:
It is hard to tell whether she is interested in studying hard for the whole summer or not.
Alternativa E:
The huge black hole was located after telescope James Web was capable of seeing some of the most distant galaxies in our Universe.

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