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.

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.

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.

Answer questions 26 – 28 according to the text:

“Once upon a time in a small town in the south of a tropical country, there was a little girl called Amanda. She lived in a very quiet and peaceful neighborhood. Amanda was the naughtiest girl in this neighborhood. She had a younger brother. His name was Arthur. He was as naughty as _____. They loved to do everything together. Their mother, Jill, used to call them lightning and thunder. One day, Jill looked at herself on the glass of the fish tank and noticed it was filthy. A couple of hours later, on the very same day, Amanda and Arthur took their toothbrushes and carefully cleaned all the fishes in the fish tank. Despite Amanda and her brother’s good will, they were grounded for a month.”

Mark the option that shows only adverbs:

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”.

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 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.

Mother: Where did you go last night?

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

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.

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.

À propos des conjonctions, jugez les items suivants.

La conjonction car n’appartient ni à la proposition qui la précède ni à celle qui la suit.

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

The sentence “I have never met or spoke to your father” is gramatically correct.