The backquote (`) serves to avoid the repetition a + a in situations where we need to use “a”, with the vowel function, together with “a”, with the preposition function (a + a = à).
The backquote should be used in the following cases:
1. Before feminine words
Example: I go to the bakery (a + a).
The crase serves to avoid writing the a (I go to the bakery), because whoever goes, go to some place and bakery is a feminine noun, so before it we put an "a" = the bakery.
Now, notice: I'm going to the hairdresser = I'm going to the hairdresser (a + o).
2. In the hour indication
Example: Class starts at 8am.
We use a backquote when indicating a time, as in the example above.
However, when we talk about counted hours, we don't use a doublet. For example: The two hours of class seemed endless.
The back letter is also not used if the prepositions after, from, between, to, are before the hours. For example: Come after 2pm.
3. In prepositional and female conjunctive phrases
Examples:
At her expense, he was grounded.
He cried with laughter as he spoke.
They are prepositional phrases: at the cost(s) of, except for, at the mercy of, at the rate of, around, at the expense of.
They are conjunctive phrases: as, as.
4. With the pronouns that, that, that, when they contract with the preposition "a"
Example: Don't lend money to that person (to + that).
This contraction serves to avoid repetition. the one (do not lend money that one people.).
Read too:
- Crasis: all about the crasis! When to use and tips
- Crasis before hours
- Optional crasis: 3 cases to always remember
back exercises
1. (UM-SP)
I. In relation to family income, the intensive employment of labor is not the best solution.
II. For the past decade, ominous omens have plagued his mind.
III. American investors, used to the slow pace of inflation, manage to accumulate a fortune.
According to the proper use of the crasis, it is deduced that:
a) all periods are correct.
b) none of the three are correct.
c) periods I and II are correct.
d) periods II and III are correct.
e) only period III is correct.
Correct alternative: d) periods II and III are correct.
a) WRONG. The first sentence is wrong because the preposition "a" is missing because "in relation" requires preposition (in relation The something).
Thus, we have a repetition, of "a" with preposition value (in relation The) and "a" with vowel value (The family income), ie a + a = à (in relation to à family income).
b) WRONG. II is correct because this is a case in which crasis does not occur. The preposition is "since" and not "a", so there is no joining of a + a = à.
III is correct because in this case the crase was used correctly to avoid the repetition of the preposition (usually The) + vowel (The slow) = à slowness.
c) WRONG. I is wrong, as the backquote should have been used (in relation to à family income), since there is the repetition of "a" with a preposition function (in relation to The something) and "a" with vowel function (The family income).
d) CORRECT. The second sentence is correct, because "since" is preposition. In this case, there is no repetition of the preposition "a" with the vowel "a" that is accompanying "last decade".
The third period is also correct, because the crasis is preventing the repetition of the preposition "a" (usually The something) with the vowel "a" (The slow). So we have a + a = to slowness.
e) WRONG. In addition to period III, period II is also correct, as in this case there is no crasis due to the fact that there is no repetition of preposition "a" with vowel "a". In "Since the last decade" the preposition is "since" and the vowel that accompanies the feminine noun is "a", that is, there is no combination of since + a.
2. (Fuvest) Progress came unexpectedly ___ suburb. In ___ a few years, none of its residents will remember the little houses that, ___ so recently, marked the familiar landscape.
a) that, the, the
b) that, there, there
c) to that, to, to
d) that, a, there is
e) that, there, there
Correct alternative: d) to that, a, there is.
a) WRONG. Although none of the alternatives is correct, we realize that alternative "a" is not possible right in the first gap (that suburb).
b) WRONG. In alternative "b" the first gap is actually "to the one", however, the second gap suggests "à", but future actions are indicated with "a" without a backquote (A few years from now).
c) WRONG. In alternative "c" the first gap is actually "that", however, the second gap suggests "à", but future actions are indicated with "a" without a quot; The third gap can only be filled with "ha", which expresses past action (so recently).
d) CORRECT.
- to that: the crase was used correctly in order to avoid the repetition of the preposition "a" (to arrive The somewhere) with the "a" of the pronoun (Thethat), soon we have that one.
- a: the article "a" expresses a future action and, in this case, there is no backrest.
- ha: the "ha" in turn expresses the past.
e) WRONG. Right in the first gap, we realize that the alternative "e" is wrong, because the verb to arrive requires a preposition (to arrive The somewhere). Thus, to avoid the repetition of the preposition "a" with the "a" of the pronoun "Thethat", we must use the crasis. soon i fear that one.
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