Questão 3307

(UFRGS - 2000)

In Victorian England, the valet, the master's personal servant, had much prestige within the household. First, he had to have, clean and repaired, the correct outfit for every occasion, to attend to his master's toilette (perhaps using his own recipe for shaving soap or boot polishing) including the ironing of shoelaces and the washing of small ¹change. The valet travelled everywhere of ²consequence with his master, deciphering train timetables and taking charge of valuables and cash, and he was ³privy to many close-kept secrets. Abroad he acted as courier and interpreter, and might well have more contacts and knowledge of foreign ways than his master. He needed ⁴to be fit, for he rose before his master and could not sleep until long after he had retired.

Fonte: Pitkin Guides, 1998

The ING forms that have, in the text, the function of nouns are