Phrase · 📰 Journalistic style
Em entrevista coletiva, o ministro admitiu que houve falhas na fiscalização.
At a press conference, the minister admitted there had been failures in oversight.
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Pourquoi chaque mot est à sa place
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- ministro → admitiu: subject–verb
- admitiu → que: que-clause
- houve → falhas: existential haver (singular)
Pourquoi elle est construite ainsi
Les notes correspondent aux numéros ci-dessus.
- 1entrevista coletiva = press conference (often just a coletiva).
- 2admitir = to admit: signals a reluctant acknowledgement of something negative. Sequence of tenses & reported speech II →
- 3Existential haver stays singular: houve falhas (never houveram). Agreement norms in formal writing (concordância) →