(EEAR - 2016)
Read the text and answer the question(s).
Thomas Edison tried two thousand different materials in search of a filament for the light bulb. When none worked satisfactorily, his assistant complained, “All our work is in vain. We have learned nothing”.
Edison replied very confidently, “Oh, we have come a long way and we have learned a lot. We know that there are two thousand elements which we cannot use to make a good light bulb.”
(Adapted from academictips.org)
The sentence “We have learned nothing”, in the text, can be replaced by
We have learned anything.
We haven’t learned anything.
We haven’t learned something.
We haven’t learned everything.
We have learned everything.
Gabarito:
We haven’t learned anything.
a) INCORRETA, já que aliado ao verbo no afirmativo anything dá o sentido de que se aprendeu algo, o sentido oposto da frase original.
b) CORRETA, pois a frase está na negativa, assim o anything assume também um sentido negativo, sendo equivalente ao nothing.
c) INCORRETA, pois é incorreto utilizar o some em uma frase negativa.
d) INCORRETA, uma vez que é incorreto utilizar every em frases negativas, só pode ser usado em afirmativas.
E) INCORRETA, já que everything e nothing possuem sentidos opostos, o primeiro indica tudo e o segundo indica nada.