Evitando as Brasileiradas
"To Pretend"
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She pretended to be a veterinarian.
Pretender
Pretend é falso cognato. Se você “pretende” fazer alguma coisa, diga: “I intend to …”
In Episode 01, Ed (Mr. Alzate) asked Kyle to get a ring resized, because he wanted to ask Wendy, a woman he had been dating, to marry him. Mike (Mr. B, as Kyle calls him), caught Kyle with the ring, and thought he was going to propose to his daughter, Mandy, whom Kyle had been dating.
In Episode 02, Kyle tells Mike he is taking Mandy to a special place for dinner – his favorite taco truck. Mike tries to convince him to aim a little higher.
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