Unless e a segunda condicional (Fuvest 2003)

DIANA HAD BEEN HOPING to get away by five, so she could be at the farm in time for dinner. She tried not to show her true feelings when at 4.37 her deputy, Phil Haskins, presented her with a complex twelve-page document that required the signature of a director before it could be sent out to the client. Haskins didn't hesitate to remind her that they had lost two similar contracts that week. It was always the same on a Friday. The phones would go quiet in the middle of the afternoon and then, just as she thought she could slip away, an authorisation would land on her desk. One glance at this particular document and Diana knew there would be no chance of escaping before six.
JEFFREY ARCHER, The Collected Short Stories, P.1

Fonte: Jeffrey Archer, The Collected Short Stories.

Choose the item which best completes the sentence, according to the passage: Diana wouldn't be at the farm in time for dinner unless she...by five.

A) would get away
B) gets away
C) got away
D) had got away
E) can get away

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Resposta correta: C

A oração principal já vem pronta no enunciado: "Diana wouldn't be at the farm in time for dinner". Com "would + infinitivo" na principal, a condicional de tipo 2 exige past simple na oração iniciada por "unless", o que dá "got away", a letra C. A e E são os erros mais comuns, porque não se usa "would" nem "can" dentro da própria condição: "unless she would get away" e "unless she can get away" quebram a correlação com "wouldn't be". D pertence à terceira condicional e só caberia com "wouldn't have been" na principal, e B mistura presente com "wouldn't", combinação que só funcionaria com "won't". A Fuvest não publicou o gabarito desta prova; esta resposta é a leitura do nosso time, não a oficial.

Unless e a segunda condicional (Fuvest 2003)

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