Inglês · CESPE / CEBRASPE · 2024 | Questão sqc-ce191440

InglêsAdvérbios e conjunções | Adverbs and conjunctions

Código: ce191440
Banca: CESPE / CEBRASPE
Órgão: CNPQ
Ano: 2024
Nível: Superior

Businesses are starting to introduce new options for tipping at self-checkout machines, putting even more pressure on customers amid rising inflation costs. Despite having zero interaction with employees during transactions, self-checkout machines at places such as coffee shops, bakeries, airports, and sports stadiums are giving customers the option to leave the typical 20% tip, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal.

Business owners believe that the prompt for a tip can boost staff pay and increase gratuities — but customers are questioning where and to whom the extra cash is going, considering self-checkout is done by the customers themselves. “They’re cutting labor costs by doing self-checkout. So what’s the point of asking for a tip? And where is it going?” are some of the questions customers ask. But tipping researchers claim this is a way for companies to put the responsibility of paying employees on the customer rather than increasing employee salaries themselves. Self-tipping is viewed by many customers as a way to guilt-trip the person into tipping on something when they typically wouldn’t.

Many companies told the Journal that these tipping prompts are optional, and the extra gratuity is split between all employees. However, experts say that tips at a self-checkout machine might never even get to an actual employee since protections for tipped workers in the federal Fair Labor Standards Act don’t extend to machines.

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According to the previous text, judge the following item.The word “Despite” in the sentence “Despite having zero interaction with employees during transactions” (second sentence of the first paragraph) can be correctly replaced by In spite of, maintaining both the meaning of the fragment and its correction.

CCerto
EErrado

Análise da substituição de "Despite" por "In spite of"

Gabarito: Certo (C). As expressões "despite" e "in spite of" são sinônimas e intercambiáveis, ambas introduzem uma ideia de concessão (contraste inesperado) e são seguidas de um substantivo, pronome ou gerúndio. No fragmento, "Despite having zero interaction" pode ser corretamente substituído por "In spite of having zero interaction" sem alterar o sentido ou a correção gramatical.

A banca testa o conhecimento de duas preposições de sentido concessivo que funcionam de forma idêntica. Ambas exigem um complemento nominal (substantivo, gerúndio ou pronome) e indicam que o fato expresso na oração principal ocorre apesar do obstáculo mencionado.

PEGA ESSA DICA!

Na hora da prova, lembre-se de que "despite" e "in spite of" são sempre equivalentes. A única diferença é que "in spite of" tem três palavras, mas o significado e a regência são os mesmos. Por exemplo: Despite the rain, we went out = In spite of the rain, we went out. Cuidado com a falsa amiga "in spite of" – nunca use "despite of", pois a forma correta é "despite" (sem "of").

Conclusão: A substituição mantém o significado e a correção gramatical, logo o item está Certo.

Questão de Inglês — Advérbios e conjunções | Adverbs and conjunctions — CESPE / CEBRASPE 2024

Análise da substituição de "Despite" por "In spite of"