Questões de Concurso sobre Gramática - Língua Inglesa

English, as a global language, exhibits notable variations between its regional forms, particularly British English and American English. These differences encompass spelling, pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary, reflecting distinct historical and cultural developments.

Regarding the distinctions between British and American English, select the CORRECT alternative.

A ortografia da língua inglesa é mais regular que a do português, o que facilita a leitura do inglês para os lusofalantes, uma vez que as palavras são, em sua maioria, pronunciadas conforme são escritas.

At a Brazilian public school, Ms. Letícia, who teaches English as a foreign language to a roomful of second-year of High School students, is planning a listening class. The aim is to develop listening comprehension and metacognitive listening strategies with authentic audio materials of teenage life in different countries. Analyze the statements below about the relation of teaching listening to teens and young adults, and mark T, if true, or F, if false.

( ) Metacognitive training in listening is proved not to influence the development of independent learning in adolescent learners (Vandergrift & Goh, 2012).

( ) According to Richards (2008), bottom-up listening skills prove to be more advantageous to teenage learners than top-down listening skills in genuine real communication contexts.

( ) In the research, Gilakjani and Sabouri (2016) revealed that one of the most common problems that stand in the way of listening comprehension for EFL learners is not understanding spoken reduced forms and connected speech.

( ) Field (2008) claims that there is little value in young adult learners practicing listening with authentic material to achieve listening fluency.

( ) Nation and Newton (2009) strongly believe that adolescents at the intermediate level must be regularly exposed to meaning-focused input types as an aspect of listening instruction.

( ) In Brown (2011), teaching listening to teenagers should center largely on assessing understanding rather than providing them with a range of strategies.

( ) According to Siegel (2018), explicit instruction of strategies of listening has achieved little success with adolescent EFL learners.

( ) Rost (2016) emphasizes motivation and affective engagement are paramount key elements when creating listening tasks for young adults.

The correct order of filling in the parentheses, from top to bottom, is:

English teacher Miguel is focusing on grammatical structures found in the Andorra text, particularly prepositions and conjunctions that connect ideas and show relationships between concepts. Students practice identifying these grammatical elements and understanding their functions in creating coherent and cohesive travel writing. The lesson emphasizes how proper use of connectors enhances text comprehension and production.

Which statements are correct?

I."High up in the Pyrenees mountains" demonstrates the use of prepositions to indicate location and position.

II."But that hasn't stopped..." uses a coordinating conjunction to introduce contrasting information.

III."Due to the fact that" functions as a subordinating conjunction expressing cause and effect relationships.

IV."As Andorra has one of the lowest VATs" introduces a reason using a subordinating conjunction.

Consider the following statements about the sentence “If Basquiat had not met Warhol, their collaborations would not have happened.”:

I. “Had not met” is a negative structure in the past perfect tense.

II. “Have happened” is a present perfect structure.

III. This is a conditional sentence.

Which statements are correct?

The words underlined in the excerpt “…He was going to be engaged to the woman he loved. After they got married, he said, they would move in together, into an apartment that he spent years building.” can be classified, respectively, as

Study the sentences below and decide if they are ( T ) true or ( F ) false, according to structure and grammar use.

( ) The following underlined words in the sentence (1^st paragraph): Brazil’s president has signed a law to limit smartphone use in schools, starting in February., the apostrophe ‘s is the reduced form of the verb to be: is.

( ) The word allowed in : Phones will only be allowed in emergencies, for educational activities, or for students with disabilities (1^st paragraph), can be replaced by permitted without changing its meaning.

( ) The number 28% (4^th paragraph), refers to the amount of schools which have banned smartphones.

( ) The following verb tenses has signed (1^st paragraph) and have passed (4^th paragraph) are examples of the past perfect tense.

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

Understanding the main parts of speech is essential for teaching grammar. In English, words can be grouped according to their function in a sentence, such as nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs etc.

Regarding the groups of words classified by function that can be used to form a sentence, read the statements below and choose the correct alternative.

I.Nouns are words that name people, places, or things.

II.Verbs describe actions or states.

III.Adjectives describe adverbs.

IV.Adverbs give more information about nouns.

V.In the sentence "He will arrive soon", the word "soon" is an adverb.

In the sentence "When ready to serve carefully invert the pannacottas onto a serving plate. They should come out easily and be set but very wobbly," analyze the pronoun reference. Which statement correctly identifies the antecedent and explains the grammatical relationship?

In “If the scaries are so bad that it’s significantly impacting your life…”, the term “significantly” is:

Study these sentences and decide if they are true ( T ) or false ( F ), according to structure and grammar use.

( ) Many biologists and environmental activists argue that too many whales are being killed every year.

( ) The hat to whom I am referring is not the one that is on your head, but the one over there on the table.

( ) The committee was shocked upon that most of the taxes discovered went to corrupt officials, rather than being collected to the national treasury.

( ) The twenty emperors of the Tang Dynasty of China ruled over one of more sophisticated than societies of all time.

( ) After a few weeks of struggling unsuccessfully with irregular verbs, Kate realized that she shouldn’t have chosen to study Russian.

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

Read the sentence from the text:

“The archetype of the classic witch is a cornerstone of global folklore and fiction, often depicted as a formidable and sinister antagonist.”

In this sentence, the word “formidable” functions mainly as:

In a results section that must remain cohesive and precise, select the option with appropriate discourse markers and punctuation.

Linguistic and grammatical aspects are essential for understanding and constructing correct sentences in English, especially in formal and academic contexts. Regarding the topic, analyze the following statements:

I. The verb to have in the simple present tense is conjugated as has for all subjects.

II. The plural of the word child is childs.

III. In English, the adjective precedes the noun it describes.

The correct statements are:

Read the sentence and fill the blanks. Mark the CORRECT alternative.

The primary document is always _____________ While any scanned cover sheets or letters are __________.

In the sentence “You will help keep me on solid ground”, the use of the auxiliary verb “will” correctly indicates that the speaker is referring to a voluntary or predicted action that is expected to occur in the future, thereby conforming to the structure and semantic intention of the Future Simple tense, which typically follows the pattern subject + will + base form of the verb.

Considere a seguinte frase em inglês:

"She quickly finished her homework and went to bed."

Sobre as classes gramaticais das palavras na sentença, assinalea alternativa correta:

Which of the following statements about teaching grammar in EFL using technology is INCORRECT?

Reading texts in English requires attention to contextual details and understanding of both main and secondary ideas. Read the following excerpt and select the alternative that best interprets the author's purpose.Text:

Grammar is a very old field of study. Did you know that the sentence was first divided into subject and verb by Plato, the famed philosopher from ancient Greece? That was about 2,400 years ago! Ever since then, students all over the world have found it worthwhile to study the structure of words and sentences. Why? Because skill in speaking and writing is the hallmark of all educated people.

In the sentence “Four hundred chefs in Buenos Aires teamed up to beat the world record,” which verb tense and form is used in “teamed up” and why?