(FUVEST - 2003 - 1a Fase) Read the following text:
DIANA HAD BEEN HOPING to get away by five, so she could be at the farm in time for dinner. She tried not to show her true feelings when at 4.37 her deputy, Phil Haskins, presented her with a complex twelve-page document that required the signature of a director before it could be sent out to the client. Haskins didn't hesitate to remind her that they had lost two similar contracts that week.
It was always the same on a Friday. The phones would go quiet in the middle of the afternoon and then, just as she thought she could slip away, an authorisation would land on her desk. One glance at this particular document and Diana knew there would be no chance of escaping before six.
JEFFREY ARCHER, The Collected Short Stories, p. 1
Choose the item which best completes the sentence, according to the passage: Diana wouldn’t be at the farm in time for dinner unless she...by five.
would get away
gets away
got away
had got away
can get away
Gabarito:
got away
a) INCORRETA, já que a frase fala de uma consequência de algo que ocorreu no passado, estando incorreta a utilização do 'would' para completar a lacuna.
b) INCORRETA, a lacuna deve ser completada com o verbo conjugado no passado, fazendo com que a forma 'gets' esteja incorreta pois está no presente.
c) CORRETA, a frase completa é Diana wouldn’t be at the farm in time for dinner unless she got away by five. (Diana não estaria na fazenda a tempo a menos que ela saísse por volta das cinco).
d) INCORRETA, já que o emprego do verbo to have no passado (had) está incorreto.
e) INCORRETA, já que a frase está no passado e can get away está no presente.