Questões sobre Gramática

Based on the text above, it is correct to affirm that

collocations represent a more advanced type of word knowledge that should be left to higher-level students who are enhancing and consolidating vocabulary learned.

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Based on the text above, judge the items from 84 through 98.

There is a syntactical incoherence in the first sentence, since “few” (l.1), which is used for countable nouns, and “much” (l.2), used for uncountable, are used simultaneously.

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Based on the text above, judge the items from 84 through 98.

In line 9, “matter-of-fact” is spelt with hyphens to indicate it is an adverb modifying “tone”.

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Based on the text above, judge the items from 84 through 98.

In line 12, “Don’t mess with Ms. Martinez.” is a piece of advice made more emphatic by the use of the imperative.

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Based on the text above, judge the items from 84 through 98.

“Employed” (l.13) is a verb in the past tense.

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Based on the text above, judge the items from 84 through 98.

The excerpt “she has reigned over the world’s most famous sidewalk for 25 years” (l.13-14) is an example of the use of present perfect continuous.

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Based on the text above, judge the items from 84 through 98.

Adapted from the excerpt “it’s pretty silly when you think about it” (l.19-20), the following is a correct question-tag construction: it’s pretty silly when you think about it, don’t you?

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Based on the text above, judge the items from 84 through 98.

The preposition “in” in the fragment “in 1958” (l.21) can be replaced by on without this constituting a violation of any syntactical rule.

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Based on the text above, judge the items from 99 through 106.

The words “highly” (l.2), “frequently” (l.4) and “critically” (l.7) are examples of adverbs.

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Based on the text above, judge the items from 99 through 106.

The adverb “then” (l.14) indicates, in this context, in that time.

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