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Sobre comparativo e superlativo de adjetivos | comparative and superlative em inglês
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Four types of English exist in Africa, identifiable in terms of history, functions, and linguistic characteristics. West African Pidgin English has a history going back to the 15th century, 400 years before formal colonization. Creole varieties of English have a history going back to repatriation of enslaved people from the Caribbean and the United States of America in the 19th century. Second language varieties, which are the most widespread on the continent, are prototypically associated with British colonization and its education systems. L1 (first language) English occurred mostly in Southern and East Africa and is best represented in South Africa. The latter shows significant similarities with the other major Southern Hemisphere varieties of English, spoken in Australia and New Zealand.
African Englishes From a Sociolinguistic Perspective.
Internet: <oxfordre.com> (adapted).
Considering the previous text, its ideas and linguistic features, as well as the reading strategies that apply to it, judge the following item.
The phrase “the most widespread”, in the fourth sentence of the text, is a superlative construction, with “most” modifying the adjective “widespread”.
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Reading skill will help you to improve your understanding of the language and build your vocabulary.
Read the text below carefully.
Social media, magazines and shop windows bombard people daily with things to buy, and British consumers are buying more clothes and shoes than ever before. Online shopping means it is easy for customers to buy without thinking, while major brands offer such cheap clothes that they can be treated like disposable items – worn two or three times and then thrown away
In Britain, the average person spends more than £1,000 on new clothes a year, which is around four per cent of their income. That might not sound like much, but that figure hides two far more worrying trends for society and for the environment. First, a lot of that consumer spending is via credit cards. British people currently owe approximately £670 per adult to credit card companies. That’s 66 per cent of the average wardrobe budget. Also, not only are people spending money they don’t have, they’re using it to buy things they don’t need. Britain throws away 300,000 tons of clothing a year, most of which goes into landfill sites.
People might not realize they are part of the disposable clothing problem because they donate their unwanted clothes to charities. But charity shops can’t sell all those unwanted clothes. Fast fashion goes out of fashion as quickly as it came in and is often too poor quality to recycle; people don’t want to buy it second-hand. Huge quantities end up being thrown away, and a lot of clothes that charities can’t sell are sent abroad, causing even more economic and environmental problems.
However, a different trend is springing up in opposition to consumerism – the ‘buy nothing’ trend. The idea originated in Canada in the early 1990s and then moved to the US, where it became a rejection of the overspending and overconsumption of Black Friday and Cyber Monday during Thanksgiving weekend. On Buy Nothing Day people organize various types of protests and cut up their credit cards. Throughout the year, Buy Nothing groups organize the exchange and repair of items they already own.
The trend has now reached influencers on social media who usually share posts of clothing and make- -up that they recommend for people to buy. Some YouTube stars now encourage their viewers not to buy anything at all for periods as long as a year. Two friends in Canada spent a year working towards buying only food. For the first three months they learned how to live without buying electrical goods, clothes or things for the house. For the next stage, they gave up services, for example haircuts, eating out at restaurants or buying petrol for their cars. In one year, they’d saved $55,000.
The changes they made meant two fewer cars on the roads, a reduction in plastic and paper packaging and a positive impact on the environment from all the energy saved. If everyone followed a similar plan, the results would be impressive. But even if you can’t manage a full year without going shopping, you can participate in the anti-consumerist movement by refusing to buy things you don’t need. Buy Nothing groups send a clear message to companies that people are no longer willing to accept the environmental and human cost of overconsumption.
source: learnenglish.britishcouncil.org
Read the sentences below and determine whether they are true ( T ) or false ( F ), according to structure and grammar use.
( ) The verbs worn and thrown (1st paragraph of the text) has its infinitive form as wear and throw.
( ) The underlined words in the text: nothing, anything and, everyone are examples of relative pronouns.
( ) The singular form of the following words from the text clothes and goods are, respectively cloth and good.
( ) The following sentence from the text: “Fast fashion goes out of fashion as quickly as it came in …” (3rd paragraph of the text). The words in bold are being used to compare things that are equal in some way.
( ) The negative form of the sentence “In one year, they’d saved $55,000.” (5th paragraph of the text), is “In one year, they hadn’t saved $55,000.”
Select the option that presents the correct sequence from top to bottom.
"Niagara Falls is one of the _______ waterfalls in North America, renowned for its stunning beauty. However, Angel Falls in Venezuela is the _______ waterfall in the world, with a drop of 3,212 feet."
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Hope is the thing with feathers
(Emily Dickinson 1830 –1886)
Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all,
And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.
I've heard it in the chillest land,
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.
* This poem is in the public domain. Available in:< https://poets.org/poem/hope-thing-feathers-254>
I. In the structure “I've heard it in the chillest land” is in the present perfect continuous tense.
II. In the structure “And on the strangest sea” has a superlative form.
III. In the structure “Yet, never, in extremity” the word “yet” is an adversative conjunction.
IV. In the expression “It asked a crumb of me” the word “crumb” can be replace by “middle”.
Which ones are correct?
I. This is football game isn’t ________ the last one. (more exciting/as exciting as)
II. This is _________ traffic jam I’ve seen in a long time. (badest/ the worst)
III. They say Mr. Johnson is the _________ man in the city. (wealthiest/ most wealthy)
IV. Soccer is _________ sport I know. (most violent/ the most violent)
Analyze the assertions below.
I - "In" correctly fills the gap in the text. II - There is a phrasal verb in the sentence “(…) which included laying off more than (…)”. III - The words in italics are respectively: an uncountable noun; a personal pronoun; the comparative form of the adjective “quart”.
It is correct to affirm that:
Considering the following sentences, which one of the alternatives presents only the adequate choices of comparison for each sentence?
I- The Beatles are definitely the best British band of all time.
II- I disagree, because I believe Queen was better.
III- There is no point in arguing about that when we all know Led Zepellin was the least appreciated.
Julgue o item subsequente.
In the sentence: "This must be the tallest building in this
city!", the suffix on "tallest" express a comparative
adjective.
Julgue o item subsequente.
In the sentence “Communication is much easier
nowadays"", the word “easier” is an example of a
superlative adjective.
Considere a seguinte informação sobre superlativos:
“Em praticamente todos os idiomas do mundo, existem expressões que estabelecem comparações entre coisas, seres ou situações. É muito comum utilizar tais expressões para estipular preferências ou destacar atributos de determinada coisa ou pessoa. Devido a essa necessidade que os superlativos se fazem tão importantes no uso cotidiano de qualquer língua.”
(adaptado de < https://www.infoescola.com/ingles/superlativos-superlatives/ > acesso em 6 de jun. de 2023.)
Analise a sentença a seguir considerando a informação sobre os superlativos:
“In my opinion, Goiania is _____________ city in Brazil. (beautiful)”
Assinale a alternativa CORRETA do superlativo da palavra “beautiful”:
Leia o trecho da canção “You Gotta Be” da cantora Des’ree e escolha a alternativa correta.
Listen as your day unfolds
Challenge what the future holds
Try and keep your head up to the sky
Lovers, they may cause you tears
Go ahead, release your fears
Stand up and be counted
Don't be ashamed to cry
You gotta be
You gotta be bad, you gotta be bold, you gotta be wiser
You gotta be hard, you gotta be tough, you gotta be
stronger
You gotta be cool, you gotta be calm, you gotta stay
together
All I know, all I know, love will save the day
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