🟨 TEXTO BASE
Drill Sergeant Mendonça barked orders to the Signal Corps students like a mad dog. Today's training was (demanding) than yesterday's, pushing the will-be NCO’s to their limits. The Signal Corps students are sure they are the (smart) bunch in academic disciplines, but they also needed to excel in their physical training. Mendonça, (mean) as a rattlesnake, kept reminding them of the consequences of failing the fitness test.
The obstacle course was the (bad) of all the exercises. They climbed walls, slogged through mud, and crawled under barbed wire, sweating like pigs. By lunchtime, they were exhausted and (hungry) than wolves. Sergeant Mendonça, however, would not let us rest. "This is not a picnic, gentlemen!" he yelled. The NCO academy is not for the faint of heart, in fact, but the students are determined to make it.
🟨 QUESTÃO 42.
Choose the correct statement considering the underlined adjectives in the text and their correct degrees according to the context:
🄰 The correct form of “smart” is “the most smart”.
🄱 “The worse” is the right form for “bad”.
🄲 “Demanding” becomes “most demanding” in the context.
🄳 “Hungryer” is the correct form for “hungry”.
🄴 The correct form of the adjective “mean” is “as mean”.
Gabarito: 🄴
🧭 1️⃣ Leitura orientada
A questão cobra graus dos adjetivos (comparativo e superlativo), exigindo atenção à estrutura sintática e às formas irregulares. O foco não é tradução, mas correção gramatical no contexto.
📝 2️⃣ Análise técnica das alternativas
🄰 Incorreta.
“Smart” forma o superlativo como the smartest, e não “the most smart”.
🄱 Incorreta.
O superlativo de “bad” é the worst, não “the worse”.
🄲 Incorreta.
O contexto exige comparativo: more demanding than yesterday’s,
e não superlativo.
🄳 Incorreta.
O comparativo correto de “hungry” é hungrier, e não “hungryer”.
🄴 Correta.
A estrutura “as + adjective + as” está correta em
mean as a rattlesnake, funcionando como comparação idiomática.
⚠️ 3️⃣ Armadilhas clássicas da ESA
• Confundir comparativo com superlativo
• Errar adjetivos irregulares (bad → worse → worst)
• Aplicar “more/most” indevidamente
• Ignorar estruturas fixas como “as…as”
🧠 4️⃣ Resumo B3GE™ Master
✔ A questão exige domínio técnico dos graus do adjetivo.
✔ Apenas a alternativa 🄴 respeita a forma correta e o contexto.
✔ As demais apresentam erros clássicos de formação.
🔎 Gabarito confirmado: (E)