Questões de Língua Inglesa do ano 2004

According to the established rules of phonetics and phonology of the English language, judge the items below.

The pronunciation of the verb use has two different forms in “He used his pen to sign his name” and in “He used to wear short trousers when he was a boy”.

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Decide about the correctness of the following items concerning singular and plural forms.

Most nouns ending in f or fe have plurals in ves, as in half/halves, knife/knives, leaf/leaves, life/lives.

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• E. Errado

Decide about the correctness of the following items concerning singular and plural forms.

The singular and plural form of the following words is the same: series, species, means.

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Decide about the correctness of the following items concerning singular and plural forms.

The plural forms of hypothesis, thesis, and crisis are respectively hypotheses, theses, and crises.

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• E. Errado

Decide about the correctness of the following items concerning singular and plural forms.

Mathematics, athletics, and politics are singular nouns.

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• E. Errado

Judge the following items.

In terms of sentence structure, “I came, I saw, I conquered” is an example of a simple sentence with asyndetic coordination.

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• E. Errado

Judge the following items.

In “Fred built the cabin with his own hands”, the underlined fragment is an adjunct.

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Judge the following items.

A disjunct is found in “Donna won’t cooperate, which makes things more difficult”.

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Judge the following items.

In “The strong belief that he was unbeatable was Hugh’s first defeat”, the underlined passage has an appositive function.

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Judge the following items.

“Playing video games and to watch sitcoms on cable TV are my favorite pastimes” is an example of coordinated structures with appropriate parallelism.

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• E. Errado