Questão Q1299876 - Língua Inglesa

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Text 4 to answer questions 11 to 14. 1 [...] Black Friday, which has traditionally been the moment to flock to stores for steep discounts, and which has evolved to also include major online sales events for 4 retailers like Amazon, Best Buy and Walmart, is not all that it is billed to be. We asked J. D. Levite, the deals editor of the product recommendations website The Wirecutter, for 7 some data on just how beneficial the deals are on Black Friday – and the answer was not encouraging. Year round, Mr. Levite and his team track product 10 prices across the web to unearth discounts on goods of all types, from gadgets to kitchenware. They also look at whether the product is high quality and durable based on 13 their own testing and other reviews, and whether the seller or brand has a reasonable return or warranty policy. By those measures, Mr. Levite said, only about 0.6 percent, or 16 200 out of the approximately 34,000 deals online, which typically carry the same price tags inside retailers’ physical stores, will be good ones on Black Friday. 19 “There are just more deals on that day than any other day of the year,” he said. “But for the most part, the deals aren’t anything better than what you’d see throughout the 22 rest of the year.” [...] Internet: < http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/26/technology/personaltech/black-friday-deal- or-dud-how-to- shop-smart-this-holiday-season.html >. Access: 26 nov. 2015. Text 4 to answer questions 11 to 14. 1 [...] Black Friday, which has traditionally been the moment to flock to stores for steep discounts, and which has evolved to also include major online sales events for 4 retailers like Amazon, Best Buy and Walmart, is not all that it is billed to be. We asked J. D. Levite, the deals editor of the product recommendations website The Wirecutter, for 7 some data on just how beneficial the deals are on Black Friday – and the answer was not encouraging. Year round, Mr. Levite and his team track product 10 prices across the web to unearth discounts on goods of all types, from gadgets to kitchenware. They also look at whether the product is high quality and durable based on 13 their own testing and other reviews, and whether the seller or brand has a reasonable return or warranty policy. By those measures, Mr. Levite said, only about 0.6 percent, or 16 200 out of the approximately 34,000 deals online, which typically carry the same price tags inside retailers’ physical stores, will be good ones on Black Friday. 19 “There are just more deals on that day than any other day of the year,” he said. “But for the most part, the deals aren’t anything better than what you’d see throughout the 22 rest of the year.” [...] Internet: < http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/26/technology/personaltech/black-friday-deal- or-dud-how-to- shop-smart-this-holiday-season.html >. Access: 26 nov. 2015. According to the sentence “Mr. Levite said, only about 0.6 percent, or 200 out of the approximately 34,000 deals online, which typically carry the same price tags inside retailers’ physical stores, will be good ones on Black Friday” (lines 15 to 18), it is correct to affirm that

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the word “ones” refers to “deals”.

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“which” could be replaced by that without alteration of meaning and without breaking any grammar rules.

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34,000 should be written as “34.000” because comma is not used when writing numbers.

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we could add an “s” to “retailers’” (retailers’s) without making it wrong.

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“price” in the text above has the same syntactic function as in the sentence “The prices are too high”.

According to the sentence “Mr. Levite said, only about 0.6...