Questão FC171018
Text IV In the middle of July, Roger was making his first ministerial speech. I did not need reminding, having drafted enough of them, how much speeches mattered — to parliamentary
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CEBRASPE (CESPE) · 2024
In the middle of July, Roger was making his first ministerial speech. I did not need reminding, having drafted enough of them, how much speeches mattered — to parliamentary bosses, to any kind of tycoon. Draft after draft: the search for the supreme, the impossible, the more than Flaubertian perfection; the scrutiny for any phrase that said more than it ought to say, so that each speech at the end was bound, by the law of official inexplicitness, to be more porridge-like than when it started out in its first draft. I had always hated writing drafts for other people, and nowadays got out of it. To Hector, to Douglas, it was part of the job, which they took with their usual patience, their usual lack of egotism: when a minister crossed out their sharp, clear English and went in for a literary composition of his own, they gave a wintry smile and let it stand.
C. P. Snow. Corridors of Power. London: Penguin Books, 1972, p. 31.
In the first sentence of the text, the verb “making” is being used with the sense of writing.
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Comentário: A afirmação está errada porque o verbo "making" no contexto da frase refere-se à ação de proferir ou apresentar um discurso, e não ao ato de escrevê-lo. Embora a redação de discursos seja uma parte importante do processo, "making a speech" implica na execução e apresentação oral, enquanto "writing" se refere à atividade de redigir. Portanto, a interpretação do verbo "making" como "escrevendo" não é correta dentro do contexto apresentado.
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