_____ teacher was reading _____ book to her class. She noticed _____ student in the back who seemed distracted. "Do you need _____ help?" she asked. "No, thank you," replied _____ student, "I was just thinking about _____ story you are reading."
_____ teacher was reading _____ book to her class. She noticed _____ student in the back who seemed distracted. "Do you need _____ help?" she asked. "No, thank you," replied _____ student, "I was just thinking about _____ story you are reading."
Read the sentences below and identify the highlighted words in each one:
I – I met someone who said he knew you.
II – The noise that hem ade woke everybody up.
III – I saw something in the paper which would interest you.
Select the corret answer.
“ing” forms (e.g. smoking, walking,) can be used not only as verbs, but also like adjectives or nouns.
Considering the use of -ING in the sentences bellow, mark T for the true sentences and F for the false ones.
( ) You're smoking too much these days. (verb: part of present progressive).
( ) There was a smoking cigarette end in the ashtray. (adjective describing the cigarette end).
( ) Smoking is bad for you. (noun: subject of sentence).
The correct order of the answers for the sentences above, top down, is:
Judge the following item, about verbal agreement and prepositions in the English language.
In the sentence "She is good at playing the piano," the preposition "at" is correctly used to show ability in an activity.
I. O sarampo é uma doença grave que pode deixar sequelas por toda a vida ou causar o óbito. A vacina é a maneira de evitar que isso aconteça.
II. O sarampo é tão contagioso que uma pessoa infectada pode transmitir para 90% das pessoas próximas que não estejam imunes.
III. A transmissão do vírus ocorre de pessoa a pessoa, por via aérea, ao tossir, espirrar, falar ou respirar.
IV. É importante que a mulher se vacine antes ou durante a gestação, já que a vacina não é contraindicada para mulheres grávidas.
V. A vacina tríplice, uma das vacinas utilizadas no combate ao sarampo, dentre outros malefícios, causa autismo em crianças.
É verdadeiro somente o que se afirma em
São objetivos da Política Nacional para a Integração da Pessoa Portadora de Deficiência, EXCETO:
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In the sentence “She picked one or two of these apples”,
the word “one” is a number.
Concerning the use of adjectives, Swan stablishes that the following sentences are correct or incorrect.
I – A fat old black horse.
II – A big grey woolen sweater
III – New brazilian tennis.
IV – A little modern square wooden house.
The correct alternatives are:
Judge the following item, about verbal agreement and prepositions in the English language.
The sentence "Neither of the answers are correct" demonstrates correct subject-verb agreement.
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The concepts of assimilation and accommodation were
contributions of Jean Piaget.
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The sentence “If a lawyer will read the document, we will
see if we’ve missed anything important” is grammatically
correct.
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In technicism education has been reduced to something that can be measured in numbers alone. Teachers are made into technicians, who simply pull the levers and push the buttons assigned to them by the ruling technocrats. Technicism focuses on quantities and techniques, rather than quality and values.
( ) The word “opportunity” is cognate, which means it is similar to Portuguese and has the same meaning in English.
( ) The word “improve” is cognate and the word “improbable” is one of its synonyms.
( ) The word “modernize” is a cognate word. It could be substituted by the word “update”.
( ) The word “country” is a false cognate. It seems to be a type of music, but it is actually referring to places far from the city.
The sequence is correct only in:
Considering the lexical-grammatical aspects of the English language, evaluate the following item.
The word "advice" is countable, so it's correct to say "an advice" when referring to a piece of advice.
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The conjunction in “The secretary took care of my
appointments whereas I was away from the office” is
correct.