Questão FC478764
Read the quote. “If the teacher is indeed wise, he does not bid you into the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind.” Kahlil Gibran – The Prophe
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FGV · 2025
Read the quote.
“If the teacher is indeed wise, he does not bid you into the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind.”
Kahlil Gibran – The Prophet (in HARMER, Jeremy. How to teach English. Pearson Education Limited 2007.
Gibran’s quote is an instance of use of conditionals in a sentence. Complete the blank spaces to make the sentence an improbable past condition.
“If the teacher ____________ indeed wise, he __________you into the house of his wisdom, but rather ____________you to the threshold of your own mind.”
- would be – would bid – would lead.
- be -would not bid – would lead.
- was – would not bid – would not lead.
- were – would have bid –led.
- were -would not bid – lead.
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A alternativa e completa corretamente a frase como uma condição improvável no presente: If the teacher were indeed wise, he would not bid you into the house of his wisdom but rather lead you to the threshold of your own mind.
Trata-se do second conditional, usado para hipóteses contrárias à realidade. A estrutura é \(If + past\), \(would + base\ verb\). Aqui, were é o passado subjuntivo que marca a hipótese, aplicável a todas as pessoas.
Would not bid expressa o resultado negativo hipotético. O verbo lead aparece na forma base porque o would da oração anterior se aplica também à segunda ação; assim a construção fica paralela e correta.
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