**Sintaxe da Língua Inglesa**
**Questão 4)**

In general there is no distinction between masculine, feminine in English nouns. However, gender (grammatical gender) is sometimes shown by different forms or different words when referring to people or animals.

Choose the only sentence which the underlined nouns can refer to both men and women.

A) The student is writing an essay about a famous doctor?.

B) His brother works as a waiter.

C) The daughter is more talkative than the mother.

D) Their queen is a widow.

E) The count has one brother.

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**Sintaxe da Língua Inglesa**  
**Questão 4)**

In general there is no distinction between masculine, feminine in English nouns. However, gender (grammatical gender) is sometimes shown by different forms or different words when referring to people or animals.

Choose the only sentence which the underlined nouns can refer to both men and women.

A) The student is writing an essay about a famous doctor?.

B) His brother works as a waiter.

C) The daughter is more talkative than the mother.

D) Their queen is a widow.

E) The count has one brother.

Accepted Answer

Na sentença A, os substantivos "student" e "doctor" são neutros em termos de gênero e podem se referir tanto a homens quanto a mulheres. Nas outras opções, os substantivos são específicos de gênero: "brother" e "waiter" (B), "daughter" e "mother" (C), "queen" e "widow" (D), "count" e "brother" (E).

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