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Sobre pronome objetivo | objective pronoun em inglês
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“To read these books, in this way, as an exercise in self-knowledge, carries certain risks. Risks that are both personal and political. Risks that every student of Political Philosophy has known. These risks spring from the fact that philosophy teaches us, and unsettles us, by confronting us with what we already know. There is an irony: the difficulty of this course consists in the fact that it teaches what you already know. It works by taking what we know from familiar unquestioned settings, and making it strange. [...] Philosophy estranges us from the familiar, not by supplying new information, but by inviting and provoking a new way of seeing.
But, and here is the risk, once the familiar turns strange, it is never quite the same again. Self-knowledge is like lost innocence; however unsettling you find it, it can never be 'unthought' or 'unknown'. What makes this enterprise difficult, but also riveting, is that Moral and Political Philosophy is a story, and you don't know where the story would lead, but you do know that the story is about You.”
Text taken from: “Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?” Introduction Class ― Michael Sandel
Choose the correct option to fill in the blanks with “who,” “whom,” or “whose.”
1 - The man car ____was parked outside the office came in to ask about the meeting.
2 - The teacher ___you spoke to is on vacation.
3 - I have a colleague____ knows a lot about modern art.
4 - The musician_____ song won the award is very talented.
5 - The participants_____ answers were correct received certificates.
Check the sentence below:
“Let’s go out!”
What is the ’s a contraction of?
I. Her aunt will be vacating next week.
II. That toy on the shelf is mine.
III. Did you do it yourself?
IV. She is the girl I was talking to you about.
V. I am going home today evening.
VI. All my friends are coming home for my birthday party.
In the order they were respectively underlined and written in bold letters, the pronouns written in the sentences above have specific functions, check the answer whose pronouns types are correspondent to the ones read above.
The Reasons Why We Dance
- As a choreographer, I get asked to share my opinion about a myriad of dance-related
- topics, from the practical, like “How can dance help you get in shape?” to the existential, like “Is
- my dancing a projection of my self-image?”. But the question I think matters most is: why do
- people dance? What is about moving our bodies to a song we love that is so joyfully Pavlovian?
- Why do we watch videos and take lessons on something that could be labeled as trivial? Why do
- we love it so?
- There are the obvious answers. We dance for physical fitness, mental clarity, emotional
- stability, and other such pluses. However, all these benefits could be attained by other means –
- though I confess I have yet to find a better alternative than a great “cha cha”* to lift both one’s
- heart rate and spirits. There must be something glorious about dancing that is more than just
- intangible. We cannot seem to explain it, yet we all know it so well that we do not hesitate to
- tap our feet to a Gershwin melody or pulse with the percussion of a samba rhythm.
- Perhaps dance is the way we express ourselves when words are insufficient. The joy we
- feel over newfound love, the determination we have in the face of great sorrow or adversity, the
- passionate fire of our youth, and the peacefulness of our softer and more graceful years – maybe
- they are never expressed more fully than through a waltz, or a tango, or a jive. We all want to
- be understood, and if we could truly speak the words that describe our feelings, how deep and
- powerful they would surely be. But alas, those words never seem to come to us just right. Maybe
- dance is simply a translator for the human heart.
- Perhaps dance is the medium through which we show the world who we truly are and who
- we can be. All of us, if we are honest, believe deep down that we are not ordinary. We know
- ourselves to be wonderfully unique, with many layers of personality and talent woven in such a
- way that no one on earth could possibly have our same make-up. We know it. We just do not
- always know how to prove it. Maybe dance gives us the opportunity. And perhaps dance is how
- we choose to remember, how we hold on to the past. It is how we relive __ fun-filled days of
- our youth or __ time we looked into their eyes and knew they were the one. It is our tribute to
- the heroes of yesterday who jitterbugged like carefree boys and girls, when tomorrow they would
- march as men and women to defend freedom’s cause. It is the chance to be __ princess again,
- waiting for __ outstretched hand and the call to __ romance that is graceful, true, and not as
- forgotten as the cynics say. When we dance, we can remember them all a little better, feel the
- butterflies once again, and if only for a moment, return to the purest part of our lives when time
- was of no matter…for we were dancing.
- Why do we dance? Every answer will be different, and that is as it should be. Perhaps the
- better question is, “Why would we not?”
*Cha Cha: an energetic modern dance.
(Available in: https://dancewithmeusa.com/why-we-dance-the-reasons/ – text especially adapted for this test).
The sentence “Perhaps dance is the way we express ourselves when words are insufficient.” (l. 13) is an example of how to use reflexive pronouns. Which of the alternatives below also shows a reflexive pronoun used correctly?
Text 1
Structure of education in Singapore
The complete control and management of Singapore’s education is in the hands of the Ministry of Education (MOE). With continuous endeavour from MOE, today Singapore can be considered to have a strong and well-reputed education system. As per recent study Singapore is ranked fourth in terms of World’s Best Education System.
The preschools are run by the private sector, including religious bodies, community foundations, business groups, etc. However, every preschool need to register itself with the Singapore Ministry of Education before being functional.
After completion of 6 years of primary education, students have to appear for a Primary School Leaving Exam (PSLE). All those students who passed the exam are admitted in a secondary level course, which is usually completed in 4-5 years. It is similar to attending seventh grade through tenth grade in the American education system.
After completion of the secondary education, the students need to appear in Singaporean GCE ‘O’ Level exam. Based on the merit in that exam, students proceed to pre-university education, which is similar to attending eleventh grade and twelfth grade as per the American education system. At this level students can opt for a wide range of subjects from varied academic areas covering Humanities, Arts and Languages, Sciences and Mathematics streams.
www.singaporeeducation.info/Education-System/ Structure-of-Education
Read the following sentence from text 1:
However, every preschool need to register itself with the Singapore Ministry of Education before being functional.
Analyze the underlined words.
1. However is an adverb that can be used at the beginning of a sentence, to introduce a contrasting statement.
2. itself is a relative pronoun that can be used to refer back to register.
3. being is a verb in the progressive tense that means life.
Choose the alternative which contains the correct affirmatives.
Regarding the use of subjects, objects, and possessive forms, analyze the following sentences:
I - _______ are you going to recommend?
II - _______ wrote this book?
III - _______ pencil is on the table?
Select the option that correctly fills in the blanks.
Disponível em: https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes
In the fourth strip, when Calvin says "What difference does that make?", what does the word "THAT" refer to in his question?
The object pronoun “her”, in “One Peruvian lady remembers life in the slum when her mother made clothes for her out of old flour sacks”, refers to:
Complete the sentence below with the correct pronoun. Choose the correct answer. (Pronouns)
_______ friends John and Phillip are coming to visit us.
"The children brought their toys to the park because they wanted to play with them. Their parents watched from a distance."
“All1 that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edgar Allan Poe)
“As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves2 happened rather than what actually happened.” (Kazuo Ishiguro)
“That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something3 you've understood all your life, but in a new way.” (Doris Lessing)
“There is nothing4 either good or bad but thinking makes it so.” (William Shakespeare)
In these sentences, the pronouns in bold are, respectively,
“There are four questions of value in life. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.” (Lord Byron)
“But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.” (William Shakespeare)
In terms of grammatical features, the two passages above have two aspects in common, which are the use of
“Poetry, Painting & Music, the three Powers in man of conversing with Paradise, which1 the flood did not sweep away.” (William Blake)
“Keep away from people who2 try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” (Mark Twain)
The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself3 in.” (W.H. Auden)
The pronouns in bold in the three sentences above are, respectively,
Read the following passage then mark the alternative that correctly fills in the blanks.
“And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about.” (John Steinbeck)
This passage contains the recurrent use of a ______1 pronoun and an example of a ______2 adjective.
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