Have you ever run out of an ingredient while cooking? This Sunday, the Elm Street Community Center organized a…

Questão

Have you ever run out of an ingredient while cooking? This Sunday, the Elm Street Community Center organized a community bake sale to raise funds for a local shelter. Volunteers prepared some flour, some sugar, many eggs, and much milk before the event. They also brought some butter for frosting. By mid-morning, bakers had used all the butter but still had enough flour, sugar, eggs, and milk to continue baking. Several visitors asked if there was any butter left to decorate the cupcakes. Unfortunately, the butter supply was gone, and the team had to serve plain cupcakes without frosting. Identify which sentence correctly reports that no butter remained for the cupcakes?

1. A) There didn't have any butter left for the cupcakes.
2. B) There weren't any butter left for the cupcakes.
3. C) There wasn't much butter left for the cupcakes.
4. D) There wasn't any butter left for the cupcakes.
5. E) There wasn't many butter left for the cupcakes.

✅ Resposta correta: alternativa D

Resolução passo a passo

1. O enunciado diz que a manteiga acabou ("the butter supply was gone") e que os visitantes perguntaram se ainda havia manteiga, sem receber resposta positiva. A frase correta deve afirmar que não restou nenhuma manteiga. Passo 2: Como "butter" é substantivo incontável, usamos "any" em frases negativas e "wasn't" (singular, passado) para concordar com esse substantivo. A construção "There wasn't any butter left" significa exatamente que não sobrou manteiga, por isso a alternativa D está correta e coincide com o gabarito oficial. Passo 3: A alternativa A está errada porque "There didn't have any" usa a estrutura inadequada de "didn't have" com "There"; o correto seria "There wasn't any". Passo 4: A alternativa B está errada porque "weren't" é plural e não concorda com "butter", que é incontável e pede "wasn't". Passo 5: A alternativa C está errada porque "wasn't much" significa que sobrou pouca manteiga, e não que não sobrou nenhuma, contrariando o enunciado. Passo 6: A alternativa E está errada porque "many" não se usa com substantivos incontáveis como "butter" e, além disso, "wasn't many" também indica quantidade pequena, não a ausência total.

💡 Dica: Preste atenção na forma correta de expressar a ausência de manteiga em inglês.

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