Light lit & vocab tips #4 Springtime for Hemingway and who else?

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Alice.V   19º
em 22/09/21 22:07

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Portnoy 
em 22/09/2021 22:31
Nível no Race: Tá ficando maluco igual o Bastter
 
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Alucindus  5º
em 23/09/2021 10:40
Nível no Race: Profissa do Bastter Race
@Alice.V
Spoilers come from the verb to spoil (to ruin the information, etc)?
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Alice.V  19º
em 23/09/2021 10:43
@Alucindus
Yep
It spoils the suprise, the fun, reveals the plot twists
Also:
Too much salt spoiled the soup
The granny spoiled her grandkids by doing whatever they wanted
As an adjective: those are spoiled kids
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Alice.V  19º
em 23/09/2021 10:56
By the way, wish you all a great Spring beginning
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Alucindus  5º
em 23/09/2021 13:45
Nível no Race: Profissa do Bastter Race
postado por @Alice.V em 23/09/2021 10:56

By the way, wish you all a great Spring beginning

For you too

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Chesterton  43º
em 24/09/2021 15:52
"The only thing that could spoil a day was people".

In this sentence, why did the author write "was" instead of "were" as "people" is a plural word?

I ask this because, according to the logic above, it seems a little strange that if we would turn the sentence into passive voice we would have to write: "People was the only thing that could spoil a day."
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oxe  1º
em 24/09/2021 17:04
@Chesterton

The subject in that sentence is "thing", which is singular. As the verb agrees with the subject in number, we must use "was" instead of "were".

Sentences in passive voice usually have a different subject than those in active voice. So the verb must also change accordingly, to agree in number with this new subject. That's often the case even in portuguese. For instance:

Eu eliminei os obstáculos. -> eliminei is singular, to agree with Eu
Os obstáculos foram eliminados por mim. -> foram eliminados is plural, to agree with Os obstáculos
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