Questões sobre Gramática

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

The following sets of words are illustrative of minimal pairs: toe/so, later/litter, they/day, bid/bead.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

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

A shift (or change) in the stressed syllable of nouns such as contract, defect, object, progress turns them into verbs.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

READ TEXT II AND ANSWER QUESTIONS 15 TO 17:

The verb form in "has never been reported" (l.15) is in the same form as the verb in:

• A. He has been planting corn;
• B. The wind was soon gone;
• C. They have been asked to leave;
• D. The disease has hit the country;
• E. She has planted some soybeans.

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”.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

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.

• C. Certo
• 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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• E. Errado

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.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

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

Mathematics, athletics, and politics are singular nouns.

• C. Certo
• 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.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

Judge the following items.

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

• C. Certo
• E. Errado