Questões de Concurso sobre Análise sintática | Parsing

Choose the option in which there is a mistake in “careful + preposition”:

The word ‘bear’ (l.34) could be used as a differt part of speech in another context. Mark the word that could be used as adjective, noun, and adverb.

In the sentence “The collection itself was outsourced to tax farmers, who would use any means necessary – including violence – to obtain what had become a key revenue source for monarchies”,

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"A lexical approach in language teaching refers to one derived from the belief that the building blocks of language learning and communication are not grammar, functions, notions or some other unit of planning and teaching but lexis, that is, words and word combinations. Lexical approaches in language teaching reflect a belief in the centrality of the lexicon to language structure, second language learning and language use, and in particular to multiword lexical units or 'chunks' that are learned and used as single items." (RICHARDS, J.C., e RODGERS, T. Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986, p.132.)

In language teaching, the view of the nature of language is central to the development of a specific approach. As far as the lexical approach is concerned, it is correct to say that…

Based on the meanings in the text, the two items express opposite ideas in

Analyze the sentences according to structure and grammar use.

1. the word ‘people’, is the plural form of ‘person’.

2. In the sentence: “He asked people to fight peacefully.” The underlined word is an adverb.

3. “Unfair” is the opposite of “fair”.

4. The underlined word in: “And they think about how much more America should change in the future.”, is an example of irregular verb.

Choose the alternative which presents the correct ones:

Consider the words from the text; then analyse the statements that follow.

sassiness (l.05)

haughtiness (l.17)

hatefulness (l.23)

sexiness (l.25)

I. All words follow the same speling rule.

II. All words are nouns.

III. The suffix –ness changes adjectives into nouns.

Which ones are INCORRECT?

Observe the use of the word NEWS and the subject-verb concord in the sentences below.

Choose the sentence that is grammatically correct.

In each of the options bellow there is a word or expression underlined in the text and a suggestion for its replacement. Choose the option in which the change suggested keeps the meaning and the grammatical correctness of the text:

Mark the incorrect sentence.

Consider the sentence: “Oceans, which cover 70% of the planet, warm much more slowly than land and are partly responsible for the uneven pattern of warming” (lines 17-18). The underlined structure is

The underlined word below that has the same syntactical function as the underlined part of the sentence “So tracking a business’s online reputation is a critical part of building a thriving company, experts said” (lines 19 and 20) is

Read carefully the examples and choose the correct alternative.

I- You do look tired! Maybe you should take a rest.

II- I don’t play tennis nowadays, but I did play when I was younger.

III- I know you don’t agree, but your science project does look very nice.

Na frase: “One such company, Telegram, said on Twitter that more than 1.5 million Brazilian users had joined up since the court order was handed down.”, a expressão “handed down” pode ser substituída, sem mudança de sentido, por

Em 2011, com a morte de Amy Winehouse prematuramente, a carreira que fora interrompida, deixou o legado de uma compositora que fez de seus problemas, versos aclamados pelas críticas internacionais. Sobre a letra da citada canção, leia as alternativas abaixo e assinale a verdadeira:

Consider the following:

I - “Used to” expresses the idea of customary or habitual action in the past;

II - “Be to” is used to indicate plans, obligation, necessity or arrangements;

III - “Must” expresses unavoidable obligation or necessity;

IV - “Will” and “be going to” can always be used interchangeably.

The words below belong to the same category, except:

“They elected Prof. Palmer the head of that department for the second time.”, “the head of that department” is a direct object.

“Bernard is now the best student at that college.”, “the best student” is a direct object.