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Sport: verbo seguido de infinitivo (B1)

Every January thousands of people decide ___ a gym, buy new shoes and change their life. Six weeks later, most of them have stopped going. Experts say the problem is not laziness: it is the size of the promise. Someone who starts with three hours of hard training usually feels pain and gives up quickly. Walking fast for twenty minutes, dancing at home or cycling to work produces better results, because these activities are easy to repeat. Sport should not be a punishment for eating; it works much better as something a person genuinely enjoys.

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Assinale a alternativa que completa corretamente a lacuna do texto.

  1. A) to join
  2. B) joining
  3. C) join
  4. D) to joining
  5. E) joined
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Resposta correta: A

O verbo "decide" faz parte do grupo que exige infinitivo com "to" como complemento, assim como "want", "hope" e "promise". Por isso "joining" está errado: "decide" nunca é seguido de gerúndio. "Join" sem "to" e "to joining" também são impossíveis, pois "to" nesse caso é partícula do infinitivo e não preposição.

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