Questões de Concursos Gramática

With regard to verb tenses and verb forms, judge the items below.

In the sentences “Dancing is an excellent aerobic exercise” and “She is dancing with her brother”, the underlined forms are gerunds.

Decide about the correctness of the following items in regard to adjectives, adverbs, and pronouns.

Why should I be punished? I haven’t done nothing wrong.

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”.

A partir del texto, juzgue los ítems siguientes.

Los elementos “de” y “sin”, ambos en la línea 56, son clasificables como adverbios.

Decide about the correctness of the following items in regard to adjectives, adverbs, and pronouns.

In “The friendly lady sings beautifully”, the underlined words have both an adverbial function.

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.

Judge the following items concerning subordinated structures.

The relative structure in “The judge praised the jury members who had respected the rules of court” means that some members of the jury failed to comply with the rules.

In regard to error treatment and language teaching methods, decide about the correctness of the items below.

In Georgi Lozanov’s Suggestopedia, now called Desuggestopedia to reflect the importance placed on suggesting no limitations on learning, errors are corrected gently, with the teacher using a soft voice. This method is illustrative of what came to be known as an affectivehumanistic approach to language teaching.

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

Mathematics, athletics, and politics are singular nouns.

Choose the alternative that best completes the sentence below.

I stayed in London ___ a few days during my vacation. I came back to Brazil ___ May 1st.

Write ?T? if the sentence is grammatically correct, and ?F? if it is grammatically incorrect. Then choose the alternative with the correct sequence.

( ) Many people are dying in Haiti.

( ) Much of the children are sick and hungry.

( ) There are only a few food to eat.

( ) Not much fresh water is left.

( ) They need lot money to rebuild the country.

Mother: Where did you go last night?

Son: I ...... to a party.

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.

Complete the following sentences with some or any.

I. I want to buy ________ games.

II. Have you got _________ kids?

III. Would you like _________ cake?

In regard to error treatment and language teaching methods, decide about the correctness of the items below.

In the Total Physical Response (TPR) approach, errors are expected when students first begin speaking. The teacher should be tolerant and only correct structural errors unobtrusively. As students get more advanced, the teacher can correct more minor errors.