You are always in doubt about how and when to use expressions we, agent and there are people? Your fear makes perfect sense, after all, phonetically there is nothing that differentiates the three expressions. But it is necessary to know the different situations of use in which they are involved in order to avoid writing errors that can lead to difficulties in understanding the text. Are we going to learn more?
despite the homophony,phonetic equality between two words or between a word and an expression,the differences between us, agent and there are people can be well defined. Semantically, they have nothing in common, which certainly facilitates the correct use of terms. Observe the tips and good studies!
We:
we went to school to study (We we went to school to study).
Note that the expression we can be replaced by pronoun personal we without prejudice to the meaning of the phrase. we it is a pronominal phrase widely used in the oral modality, in which colloquialism prevails in less formal communication situations. It is worth remembering that, in writing, we must privilege the cultured norm, therefore, prefer the pronoun we.
No mistake: the three expressions, despite being phonetically identical, have very different uses in the Portuguese language!
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Agent:The word agent it is a substantive common and as defined from the Michaelis dictionary, agent is that "Who acts, who exerts some action; that produces some effect.What manages or deals with other people's businesses.2Person in charge of managing an agency.”
Note the use of the word in its different meanings in the following clauses:
Mark, the agent of travel, organized a tour to Europe.
pesticides are agents chemicals harmful to health.
O agent British secret James Bond is a character by writer Ian Fleming.
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There are people:
there are people who spends a lifetime without traveling.
The expression there are people, in this context, can be replaced by the expression there are people, without prejudice to the meaning of the sentence.
“there are people that, instead of destroying, it builds; instead of envying, it presents; instead of poisoning, it beautifies; instead of tearing, it gathers and aggregates.” (Lya Luft)
By Luana Castro
Graduated in Letters
