Questão de Inglês — Vocabulário | Vocabulary — CPCON 2025
InglêsVocabulário | Vocabulary
- Código
- qg439320
- Banca
- CPCON
- Órgão
- Prefeitura de São Francisco - PB
- Ano
- 2025
- Nível
- Superior
- Cargo
- Professor P3 - Língua Inglesa
In the cartoon, Calvin says: “I sure feel sorry for my tapeworm.” The highlighted expression is an example of a lexical collocation. Which of the following statements CORRECTLY characterizes its use in English?
- AIt illustrates a fixed verb–preposition construction whose meaning is literal, not idiomatic, and is frequently used to express empathy toward someone or something.
- BIt is an idiomatic collocation interchangeable with “regret about,” and it requires the object to be an abstract noun rather than an animate entity.
- CIt belongs to the category of strong collocations where substitution of the verb (feel) by near-synonyms like sense or experience is normally acceptable without altering meaning.
- DIt represents a free combination of words with no restrictions, since both “sorry” and “for” can freely combine with a wide variety of verbs in English.
- EIt demonstrates a restricted collocation, where sorry collocates with specific verbs (feel, be, sound, look), and the structure tends to convey a pragmatic idea of empathy or mild pity