Questões de Concurso sobre Análise sintática | Parsing

The fragment from the first paragraph “More children should be given free school meals to” illustrates a particular use of the passive voice in English, one in which the indirect object in the active voice is the subjetct in the passive sentence. Mark the alternative which contains a similar grammatical construction.

The final –ed in the verb “stopped” (line 1) and the final –ed in the adjective “stressed” (line 12) are both pronounced the same way.

O ultimo período do texto “if they plan to use cooperative learning, teachers will have many decisions to make” pode ser explicadao sintaticamente como:

The proliferation of approaches and methods is a prominent characteristic of contemporary second and foreign language teaching. Invention of new classroom practices and approaches to designing language programs and materials reflects a commitment to finding more efficient and more effective ways of teaching languages. Read and analyse the list below to answer 08.

1. Drilling may occur, but peripherally.

2. Comprehensible pronunciation is sought.

3. Judicious use of native language is accepted where feasible.

4. Reading and writing can start from the first day, if desired.

5. Sequencing is determined by any consideration of content, function or meaning which maintains interest.

6. Linguistic variation is a central concept in materials and methodology.

7. Language is created by the individual often through trial and error.

The list above especifically describes some of the major distinctive features that oppose to the:

No trecho “This was probably one of the most frequently asked questions I was asked as an English teacher,” o termo destacado exerce a função de:

In the second paragraph, the words “How”, “Why” and “When” function as question words and that is their main and only use in the English language.

The word furthermore in “Furthermore, games use clever AI (artificial intelligence).”, can be correctly classified as a(n):

Identify the alternatives below as ( T ) true or ( F ) false.

( ) The underlined word in “… it helps to know more about hot air balloons themselves.“ is a relative pronoun.

( ) The preposition in the following sentence “…keeping the balloon floating above the ground.” means that the balloon is floating over the ground.

( ) The words ‘actually’, ‘push’, and ‘major’ mean in Portuguese: ‘atualmente’, puxar’ and ‘maior’.

( ) The negative form of “A hot air balloon has three major parts: the basket, the burner, and the envelope.” is “A hot balloon doesn’t have three major parts: the basket, the burner, and the envelope.”

( ) The tense used in the question “Have you ever wondered what keeps a hot air balloon flying?”, is an example of Past Perfect.

Choose the alternative which presents the correct sequence, from top to bottom.

Choose the alternative that presents the words and punctuations correctly organized in the sentence.

Analyzing the grammatical aspects of Text VI, and considering the standard use of language, it’s correct to say that

In “Though US banks have been heightening their defenses, Lin added, utilities in larger cities might be more at risk because they lack the extra funding for cybersecurity“:

Considering the groups of words below, point out the option in which the group of words are not homophones.

Choose the alternative that presents a correct association between a term from the text and its word class.

The sentence from the fourth paragraph “Young women from Tohoku are often given discriminatory treatment that makes them feel ashamed of their accents” illustrates a particular use of the passive voice in English, one in which the indirect object in the active voice is the subject in the passive sentence. A similar passive construction is found in alternative:

Consider the standard English pronunciation of the “th” in though (l. 02). In which word below the “th” has a different pronunciation?

The expression “have shown” (line 4) agrees with the subject “models” (line 3).

In ‘A trip down the memory lane of methodology’, the underlined group of words is

The ‘s, in the sentence “The theme of this year’s Earth Day” (lines 2 and 3), and the word “is”, in the sentence “Eco-innovation is the key” (lines 18 and 19), have the same function.

Existem algumas estratégias que podemos utilizar que ajudam a encontrar o significado das palavras que não conhecemos ou que são de difícil entendimento.

LAPKOSKI, Graziella Araújo de Oliveira. Do texto ao sentido: teoria e prática de leitura em língua inglesa. Curitiba: Intersaberes, 2012. p. 101.

Considerando-se algumas estratégias para lidar com o vocabulário, usar partes da palavra (morfologia) significa

There are in the text several instances of verb+noun phrase collocations, such as “make choices” and “take place”. Another correct verb+noun phrase collocation is found in alternative: