JOIN MY NEW CLUB, “TGIT” Until now, the business world was primarily made of two clubs. The most popular club…

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JOIN MY NEW CLUB, “TGIT” Until now, the business world was primarily made of two clubs. The most popular club, by far, was the “TGIF” club, or “Thank God It’s Friday.” To be a member of this club, your primary focus is on the weekend. Members think about, anticipate, and look forward to Fridays so that they can get away from their work. Most members are highly stressed because only two days of the week are considered “good days.” Even Sunday is considered stressful because the next day they have to go back to work. The other business club is substantially smaller, yet in some ways the members are more dedicated to the club. This one is called “TGIM,” or “Thank God It’s Monday.” These members are usually workaholics who can’t stand weekends because they are away from work! Members of this club are also highly stressed because while there are generally five days of the week to be preoccupied with work, there is always that darn weekend that gets in the way! The most difficult day of the week is usually Friday, because it often means the member won’t be able to get back to work for a few days. They may try to work on weekends, but the demands of family get in the way. Needless to say, members of both clubs think members of the “other club” are completely nuts! I invite you to join an alternate club. My hope is that together, we can eventually achieve a 100 percent membership. In fact, I’d love to put the other two clubs out of business altogether! This new club is called “TGIT,” or “Thank God It’s Today.” Members of this club are happy seven days a week because they understand that every day is unique, and each brings with it different gifts. Members of this club are grateful to be alive; they rejoice in their many blessings and expect each day to be full of wonder, surprise, and opportunity. There are no qualifications necessary to join the “TGIT” club, other than the desire to have a higher quality of life and the desire to appreciate rather than dread each day. Members of this club understand that it’s useless to wish any day were different. They know that Mondays don’t care if you like them or not – they simply go on being Mondays. Likewise, Fridays will come around every seventh day, ___( I )___. It’s up to each of us to make every day as special as it can be. No amount of wishing will make the slightest bit of difference. Don’t sweat the small stuff By Richard Carlson The sentence that properly fills in blank I in the text is (Mackenzie 2013)

1. A) if you don’t wish to be Friday.
2. B) whether you wish it were Friday or not.
3. C) if you wish to be Friday or not.
4. D) whether or not you wish they were Friday.
5. E) if you are on a Friday or not.

✅ Resposta correta: alternativa B

Resolução passo a passo

1. O trecho diz que as sextas-feiras voltam a cada sete dias, ___ (I). A ideia é que isso acontece independentemente de você desejar ou não que fosse sexta-feira, pois o texto afirma que nenhum desejo muda os dias. Passo 2: Precisamos de uma conjunção que exprima indiferença, com o sentido de 'quer você deseje que seja sexta-feira ou não'. Essa estrutura é whether ... or not. Passo 3: A alternativa B, whether you wish it were Friday or not, preserva essa ideia: whether introduz a oração de indiferença, o sujeito it refere-se ao dia da semana, e o verbo no subjuntivo were expressa desejo irreal ou hipotético, como manda a construção wish + were. Passo 4: A alternativa A esta errada porque if you don't wish to be Friday não faz sentido, já que a pessoa não pode 'ser' sexta-feira. A alternativa C esta errada porque if you wish to be Friday or not também não tem sentido, pois repete o erro de 'ser' sexta-feira e usa if, que não expressa indiferença. A alternativa D esta errada porque they se refere a Fridays, sujeito plural que não é o dia em si, e they were Friday não é a construção correta para o sentido pretendido. A alternativa E esta errada porque if you are on a Friday or not muda o sentido para estar ou não em um dia específico, sem relação com o desejo expresso no texto. Passo 5: Portanto, o gabarito oficial B está correto, e a resolução feita independentemente do gabarito chegou à mesma conclusão.

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