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AI has made it easier than ever to find information: Ask ChatGPT almost anything, and the system swiftly delivers an answer. But the large language models that power popular tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Anthropic’s Claude were not designed to be accurate or factual. They regularly “hallucinate” and offer up falsehoods as if they were hard facts.
Yet people are relying more and more on AI to answer their questions. Half of all people in the U.S. between the ages of 14 and 22 now use AI to get information, according to a 2024 Harvard study.
The word “Yet”, in the beginning of the second paragraph, is
polysemic and its meaning depends on the context. In the
sentences below, the one in which the word carries the same
meaning as the one used in the text is
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Is other a verb?
Like many English words, other possesses great flexibility in meaning and function. Over the past few centuries, it has served as an adjective, an adverb, a noun, and a pronoun. In recent decades, other has increased its part-of-speech portfolio to include verb use, having acquired the meaning "to treat or consider (a person or a group of people) as alien to oneself or one's group.” Some people find it disconcerting when a word takes on a new part of speech, a process known as functional shift. The phenomenon is quite common, however -- our language contains many thousands of words which are reported to have been formed in this fashion.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/other.
Forms of other can be used as either adjectives or pronouns –
besides the more recent verb form. They include others, the
other, the others, another. Indicate the correct use of one of
these forms:
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Is other a verb?
Like many English words, other possesses great flexibility in meaning and function. Over the past few centuries, it has served as an adjective, an adverb, a noun, and a pronoun. In recent decades, other has increased its part-of-speech portfolio to include verb use, having acquired the meaning "to treat or consider (a person or a group of people) as alien to oneself or one's group.” Some people find it disconcerting when a word takes on a new part of speech, a process known as functional shift. The phenomenon is quite common, however -- our language contains many thousands of words which are reported to have been formed in this fashion.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/other.
In the sentence taken from the text “Over the past few centuries,
it has served as an adjective, an adverb, a noun, and a pronoun”,
the pronoun in bold letters refers to the word “other”.
Sometimes, though, “it” does not have a referent and serves a
grammatical function only, thus being named, for example,
“dummy it”. Mark the alternative in which “it” has a referent.
“If the teacher is indeed wise, he does not bid you into the
house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your
own mind.”
Kahlil Gibran – The Prophet (in HARMER, Jeremy. How to teach English.
Pearson Education Limited 2007.
Gibran’s quote is an instance of use of conditionals in a sentence.
Complete the blank spaces to make the sentence an improbable
past condition.
“If the teacher ____________ indeed wise, he __________you
into the house of his wisdom, but rather ____________you to the
threshold of your own mind.”
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Because the culture of any community has many facets and manifestations, it would be practically impossible to deal with all of them in the classroom and prepare students for the many situations that they might encounter in the course of their functioning in ESL/EFL environments. However, many important aspects of teaching the second culture can be brought forth and addressed via classroom instruction, and some of these are discussed here. The most important long-term benefits of teaching culture may be to provide learners with the awareness and the tools that will allow them to achieve their academic, professional, social, and personal goals and become successful in their daily functioning in L2 environments.
CELCE-MURCIA, M. et alii. Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language. 4th ed. USA, Cengage Learning (2013). Adaptado.
In the part of the text “the awareness and the tools that will
allow them to achieve their academic, professional, social, and
personal goals” the bolded portion is
A father earns the gratitude of his children by nurturing them
to be preeminent in the Assembly of the Learned.
Thirukural, verse 67, circa 100 A.D. in: KUMARAVADIVELU, B. 2003.
Regular verbs ending in voiced sounds are pronounced with the
sound /d/ in the simple past and past perfect, and so are most
adjectives with the same form. However, the word “Learned”,
present in the quotation above, has a distinctive pronunciation
feature when functioning as an adjective or a noun: /ˈlɜːnɪd/.
Among the words below, choose the one that follows the same
characteristic of pronunciation when used in such functions.
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Speakers use a finite set of rules to produce and understand an infinite set of possible sentences. These rules comprise the grammar of a language, which is learned when you acquire the language and includes the sound system, the structure of words, how words may be combined into phrases and sentences, the ways in which sounds and meanings are related, and the words or lexicon. The sounds and meanings of these words are related in an arbitrary fashion. And so are the gestures used by deaf signers. Language, then, is a system that relates sounds (or hand and body gestures) with meanings; when you know a language you know this system.
FROMKIN, V., Rodman, R., Hyams, N. An Introduction to Language. 10th edition Wadsworth Cengage. Learning. 2013. Adaptado
In the fraction of the text “Speakers use a finite set of rules to
produce and understand an infinite set of possible sentences.”,
the words in bold carry opposite meaning because of the prefix
“in”. The word which results in opposite meaning because of the
same prefix is
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Speakers use a finite set of rules to produce and understand an infinite set of possible sentences. These rules comprise the grammar of a language, which is learned when you acquire the language and includes the sound system, the structure of words, how words may be combined into phrases and sentences, the ways in which sounds and meanings are related, and the words or lexicon. The sounds and meanings of these words are related in an arbitrary fashion. And so are the gestures used by deaf signers. Language, then, is a system that relates sounds (or hand and body gestures) with meanings; when you know a language you know this system.
FROMKIN, V., Rodman, R., Hyams, N. An Introduction to Language. 10th edition Wadsworth Cengage. Learning. 2013. Adaptado
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Is other a verb?
Like many English words, other possesses great flexibility in meaning and function. Over the past few centuries, it has served as an adjective, an adverb, a noun, and a pronoun. In recent decades, other has increased its part-of-speech portfolio to include verb use, having acquired the meaning "to treat or consider (a person or a group of people) as alien to oneself or one's group.” Some people find it disconcerting when a word takes on a new part of speech, a process known as functional shift. The phenomenon is quite common, however -- our language contains many thousands of words which are reported to have been formed in this fashion.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/other.
The stretch of text “many thousands of words which are reported
to have been formed in this fashion” is an example of impersonal
passive voice – which shows, for instance, what an unspecified
group of people say or believe. One instance of this type of
passive is
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AI has made it easier than ever to find information: Ask ChatGPT almost anything, and the system swiftly delivers an answer. But the large language models that power popular tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Anthropic’s Claude were not designed to be accurate or factual. They regularly “hallucinate” and offer up falsehoods as if they were hard facts.
Yet people are relying more and more on AI to answer their questions. Half of all people in the U.S. between the ages of 14 and 22 now use AI to get information, according to a 2024 Harvard study.
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Speakers use a finite set of rules to produce and understand an infinite set of possible sentences. These rules comprise the grammar of a language, which is learned when you acquire the language and includes the sound system, the structure of words, how words may be combined into phrases and sentences, the ways in which sounds and meanings are related, and the words or lexicon. The sounds and meanings of these words are related in an arbitrary fashion. And so are the gestures used by deaf signers. Language, then, is a system that relates sounds (or hand and body gestures) with meanings; when you know a language you know this system.
FROMKIN, V., Rodman, R., Hyams, N. An Introduction to Language. 10th edition Wadsworth Cengage. Learning. 2013. Adaptado
Os verbos regulares a seguir foram retirados do texto e estão no
tempo presente. Marque a alternativa em que os dois verbos têm
seu sufixo -ed do passado e particípio passado pronunciado com
/d/.
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AI has made it easier than ever to find information: Ask ChatGPT almost anything, and the system swiftly delivers an answer. But the large language models that power popular tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Anthropic’s Claude were not designed to be accurate or factual. They regularly “hallucinate” and offer up falsehoods as if they were hard facts.
Yet people are relying more and more on AI to answer their questions. Half of all people in the U.S. between the ages of 14 and 22 now use AI to get information, according to a 2024 Harvard study.