Question

It is interesting to notice that, differently from Romance39 languages such as Portuguese (fará), Spanish (hará) or French (fera) the English language does not have a future tense formed by inflection, so it needs a construction with an auxiliary verb (will do, is going to do)” (KIMINAMI, 2018, p. 111).Kiminami, Aline Yuri.

Read the following excerpt of “A Journey” by Edith Wharton.

“[…] She thought hurriedly:--"If they see I am not surprised they will suspect something. They will ask questions, and if I tell them the truth they won't believe me--no one would believe me! It will be terrible"-- and she kept repeating to herself […]”.
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Considering the excerpt above, choose the correct option.
Alternativas
Alternativa 1:
The character is talking about plans that are going to happen in the future, that is why the text is written using "will" for the future tense.

Alternativa 2:
The sentence "If they see I am not surprised they will suspect something" is written in the future tense due to the use of "will".

Alternativa 3:
The sentence "It will be terrible" is not adequate because the verb used after "will" must be written in the infinitive form with to, such as: "it will to be terrible".

Alternativa 4:
The last sentence of the excerpt "and she kept repeating to herself" is also written in the future, although the author chose to use the present continuous tense.

Alternativa 5:
The sentence "They will ask questions, and if I tell them the truth they won't believe me" is not adequately written because we make negative sentences with don't and not won't in the future tense.

Answer 1

Resposta:

Alternativa 1 - correta - personagem fala sobre coisas que acontecerão no futuro, por isso usa ''will''

Alternativa 2 - correta - personagem fala no futuro, por isso usou ''will''

Alternativa 3 - errada - após ''will'' o verbo não pode ter ''to''

Alternativa 4 - errada - ''she kept repeating'' está no past continuous - ela continuou repetindo

Alternativa 5 - errada - usamos ''won't'' para fazer negativas no futuro. ''Don't'' é usado para negativa no PRESENTE.

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