Phrase · 📰 Journalistic style
Foram presos na operação três empresários e um servidor público.
Three businessmen and a civil servant were arrested in the operation.
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Pourquoi chaque mot est à sa place
Foram1verbewereser · passé · 3e pers. plur.presos1verbearrestedprender · participe · masc. · plur.naprépositionin theem+a · fém. · sing. · définioperação2nomoperationfém. · sing.trêsdéterminantthreeempresáriosnombusinessmenempresário · masc. · plur.econjonctionandumdéterminantamasc. · sing. · indéfiniservidornomcivil servantmasc. · sing.públicoadjectifpublicmasc. · sing..
- Foram → empresários: subject–verb (postposed)
- presos → empresários: participle agreement
- servidor → público: agreement
Pourquoi elle est construite ainsi
Les notes correspondent aux numéros ci-dessus.
- 1Postposed compound subject: Foram presos agrees with all of them; preso is the short participle of prender. Stylistic inversion & emphatic word order →
- 2operação = police operation; Federal Police operations get code names.