How about we study a little about verbal rulership? Did you ever study about it at school? If you haven't studied yet, why not stay on top of this very important content of the Portuguese language?
THE verbal Regency it is nothing more than the subordinate relationship that occurs between a verb and its complements. The correct rulership of a verb prevents ambiguous sentences from being created, because when this happens, the meaning desired by the enunciator can be impaired. Some verbs in the Portuguese language have an interesting feature, such as the verb to remember. After all, is the verb to remember a direct transitive or an indirect transitive? Who remembers, remember something or remember something? Let's understand this question better?
First, let's make it clear that the verb to remember it can be direct transitive or indirect transitive. Look at the examples:
The human brain cannot remember something and do math at the same time.
In this case, the verb to remember é direct transitive, that is, it requires a complement without preposition.
Marcela did not remember to pay the bills.
In the example above, the verb to remember is pronominal, that is, it has the reflexive pronoun up and requires a complement with the preposition “of”. In this way, we can say that the verb remember is indirect transitive.
Also, the verb to remember it can also be both direct and indirect transitive at the same time. Look at the example:
I need to remind Marina to buy the tickets.
Therefore, we can say that the verb to remember It has double regency, that is, there are two ways it can relate to its complement, and both are correct. It is important that you know about this double regency to make the proper use of the verb, especially in the written modality and in formal communication contexts.
By Luana Castro
Graduated in Letters
