(AVANÇASP - 2026) - QUESTÃO

Some irregular verbs in English show a vowel change when forming the past tense. For example, the verb fight → fought illustrates a common pronunciation pattern in irregular verbs.

Identify the group of verbs whose past forms follow the same pronunciation pattern as the example above.

Ⓐ make – build – keep

Ⓑ sing – ring – drink

Ⓒ go – see – take

Ⓓ write – speak – come

Ⓔ bring – buy – think

The question asks for a group of irregular verbs that follow the same pronunciation pattern in the past tense as fight - fought.

The past tense of fight is fought, which features a vowel change to the open-O sound /ɔː/ (or /ɑː/ in American English) and ends with a silent "-gh" before the "t" sound ("faut").

Let's look at the past tense forms of the verbs in option E:

• bring - brought (rhymes with fought)

• buy - bought (rhymes with fought)

• think - thought (rhymes with fought)

All three verbs share the exact same vowel change and final sound pattern as fought.

Why the other options are incorrect:

• A) make – build – keep - made, built, kept (Different vowel sounds, no "-ought" pattern).

• B) sing – ring – drink -$ sang, rang, drank (Follows an /æ/ sound pattern).

• C) go – see – take - went, saw, took (Three completely different vowel sounds).

• D) write – speak – come - wrote, spoke, came (Follows different vowel change patterns).