The subject that drives this wonderful meeting of ours is defined by learning a little more about conducting. It, as you know, deals with the relationship that exists between the elements of a prayer, more precisely with dependence that there is between the verb and the complement, which will give it the sense it needs to be complete, logical and necessary. So, before we start, how about taking a trip back in time, reviewing a subject that we already know about. He, in turn, is expressed through the text "Verbal Regency: Basic notions"
It seems that after a few concepts remembered, everything seems to become even easier, doesn't it?
The regency of the verb to respond is related to specific factors
Moving on, imagine if you were asked the following question:
You answer The question or à question?
In order for us to choose the correct answer, we must stick to a very important aspect, present in both cases: a of them appears without the preposition (the question), while the other is already demarcated by the use of the preposition (the question).
When we ask the question to the verb, ie: what did it answer? THE QUESTION. In this case, the “a” acts as a definite article, as it accompanies the noun “question”.
Now let's ask another question: He answered what? To the question, we have an answer.
So we come to a surprising conclusion:
The verb to respond can be classified as a direct transitive, as in the first case; as it can also be classified as indirect transitive, that is, as it happened in the second case,mainly because of the presence of the preposition.
But wait: one more detail is still missing: did you know he can qualify, also, as bitransitive, that is, represent direct object of thing (the question) and indirect object of person (the question).
But beware: you can only be classified as such when you represent the two aspects together, that is, simultaneously.
To finish our study, know that it can act as dicendi, that is, that verb that announces a statement, both in direct and indirect speech:
The students said that she had responded poorly to the teacher.
By Vânia Duarte
Graduated in Letters
