Questões de Concurso sobre Verbos | Verbs

“A control group ___________________ have increased the strength of our study by ________________ an objective benchmark for questionnaire results specific to our practice.”

Fill the gap with the best option.

In the sentence “they would begin to make a point” (line 9), the verb “would” conveys the idea of

Quais formas verbais completam melhor o excerto a seguir?

“People often do not so much I - _____ as they II -______ their turn to III - ______. Someone probably IV - ______ that once, or if they didn’t, they V - _____.”

Complete in the gap with the best verb tense.

“They went on a field trip, and then they _______________________ water pouring out of a factory.”

“Today's students live in a world that ______________ been transformed by technology, and they are often _______________ to as ‘digital natives’ because their exposure to digital resources begins at birth.”

The phrasal verb highlighted in the fragment: " I guess what I’m trying to say is, what the fortieth floor lacked in flash it made up for in influenc" can be substituted by an expression which adds more formality to its tone. The alternative that best fits the passage is:

Mark the option that has an INCORRECT use of a past tense.

In: 'Can you pick up survívors?', the phrasal verb in bold can be replaced by

The modal verb can in “they can also view the world…” (paragraph 1) conveys the idea of

The use of the modal verb might in “You might also like to film it” indicates

‘hid’, (line 13), is the past tense of the verb

Read the sentences and write T for the correct matching between the phrasal verb and the meaning or F for the incorrect matching:

( ) May I close the door? It is too cold. (ask for permission)

( ) Nobody answers the phone. They must be busy. (obligation)

( ) She should talk to him to apologize. (suggestion)

( ) They might not come for dinner. (prohibition)

Choose the correct alternative:

Choose the correct alternative.

More than 250,000 Syrians _______ their lives in four-and-a-half years of armed conflict, which _______ with anti-government protests before escalating into a full-scale civil war. More than 11 million others _______ forced from their homes as forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad and _______ opposed to _______ rule battle each other - as well as jihadist militants from so-called Islamic State.

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Complete the sentence with the right verb form according to the modal: “She always felt bad for them, so she would (…) them scallion pancakes for breakfast.”

If the verb has a direct object we use a personal pronoun, not a reflexive pronoun, but when the clause has a direct object and we need to make it clear that the subject and prepositional phrase refer to the same person or thing, we use a reflexive pronoun. So, mark the wrong sentence.

They would ______________ me about the information they ______________ on the Internet or through querying their parents.

In “pleasing views” the word “pleasing” is to “pleasure” as:

In the first line of the second paragraph “The myth of the hero, though, could not survive when public life came to be dominated by the mass media”, the verb came is the past form of which verb:

In line 16, the correct form of the verb TO FIND is:

In the sentence “We drove round a dusty bend, and there in front of us lay the town, a couple of dozen wooden buildings”, the verb ‘drove’ is the simple past of which verb: