Phrase · 🎓 Academic discourse
Conforme apontado na seção anterior, a variável idade foi descartada.
As noted in the previous section, the age variable was discarded.
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Why every word is where it is
Conforme1conjunctionasapontado1verbnotedapontar · participle · masc. · sing.naprepositionin theem+a · fem. · sing. · definiteseção2nounsectionfem. · sing.anterioradjectivepreviousfem. · sing.,adeterminertheo · fem. · sing. · definitevariávelnounvariablefem. · sing.idadenounagefem. · sing.foiverbwasser · past · 3rd sing.descartada3verbdiscardeddescartar · participle · fem. · sing..
- Conforme → apontado: reduced clause
- variável → foi: subject–verb
- descartada → variável: participle agreement
Why it's built this way
The notes match the numbers above.
- 1Conforme apontado: a reduced clause (= conforme foi apontado), common in cross-references. Reduced clauses II: participial absolutes & compound forms →
- 2Brazil writes seção; secção is European.
- 3descartada agrees with a variável.