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American jazz is a trove of sounds borrowed from such varied sources as American and African folk music, European classical music, and Christian gospel songs. One of the recognizab
Gramática (Grammatics)
IDECAN · 2017
American jazz is a trove of sounds borrowed from such varied sources as American and African folk music, European classical music, and Christian gospel songs. One of the recognizable traits of jazz is its use of improvisation: certain parts of the music are written out and played the same way by various performers, and other improvised parts are created spontaneously during a performance and vary widely from performer to performer.
The root form of jazz was ragtime, lively songs or rags performed on the piano, and the best-known of the ragtime performers and composers was Scott Joplin. Born in the 1868 to former slaves, Scott Joplin earned his living from a very early age playing the piano in bars around the Mississippi. One of these regular jobs was in the Maple Leaf Club in Sedalia, Missouri. It was there that he began writing the more than 500 compositions that he was to produce, the most famous of which was “The Maple Leaf Rag”.
(Longman Preparation Course for the TOEFL, Deborah Philips Adapted.)
About the fragment “It was there that he began writing the more than 500 compositions that he was to produce” it is correct to state that:
- A gerund form has passive meaning.
- The use of the gerund is mandatory.
- Only one preposition has been used.
- The relative pronouns can be omited.
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Correto: o pronome relativo that pode ser omitido quando atua como objeto da oração relativa.
Regra prática: se o relativo precede imediatamente o sujeito + verbo da oração relativa, ele não é necessário e pode ser suprimido sem perda de sentido.
No fragmento, ambas as ocorrências de that introduzem orações em que o relativo exerce função de objeto. Assim, é possível a forma sem o pronome:
It was there he began writing the more than 500 compositions he was to produce.
Ao omitir o pronome, mantemos a estrutura sintática correta: a oração relativa continua identificando o objeto ("the more than 500 compositions") e o sentido permanece claro e natural em inglês.
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