(ESCOLA NAVAL - 2019)
Which is the correct option to complete the text below?
All 12 members of the Wild Boar soccer team and their coach after more than two weeks trapped inside a cave in Thailand. The rescue mission was complicated. Here's how it went down.
First, experts to teach the boys how to use scuba gear. During the hours-long trip out of the cave, each boy underwater by two divers. The boys and their escorts to squeeze through a narrow, flooded channel. Having completed that narrow section, the boys to separate, specialist rescue teams, who them through the remainder of the cave.
(Adapted from: https://edition.cnn.com/asia/live-news/thai-cave-rescue-live-intlfindex. html)
were rescued / were sent in / accompanied / were required / were handed over / were helped
were rescued / were sent in / was accompanied / were required / were handed over / helped
rescued / sent in / accompanted / required / handed over / were helped
rescued / sent in / was accompanied / required / handed over / were helped
was rescued / were sent in / accompanied / were required / handed over / helped
Gabarito:
were rescued / were sent in / was accompanied / were required / were handed over / helped
Quando o sujeito é they, isto é, terceira pessoa do plural (eles), o verbo auxiliar, quando necessário, é were. Já para a primeira e terceira pessoas do singular (I, he, she e it), o auxiliar é was. Assim, temos:
Lacuna 1: All 12 members of the Wild Boar soccer team and their coach were rescued (eles foram salvos);
Lacuna 2: experts were sent in (eles foram enviados);
Lacuna 3: each boy was accompanied (cada um foi acompanhado);
Lacuna 4: The boys and their escorts were required (eles foram requeridos);
Lacuna 5: the boys were handed over (eles foram repassados);
Lacuna 6: specialist rescue teams, who helped (eles ajudaram).
Assim, a alternativa correta é a de letra B.