Questões de Concurso Sobre pronomes | pronouns em inglês

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Q2215008 Inglês
          As new technologies take on increasingly humanlike qualities, there’s been a push to make them genderless. Apple’s Siri digital assistant unveiled a gender-neutral option last year, and when asked about their gender identities, the AI chatbots ChatGPT and Google Bard each reply, “I do not have a gender.”
     There have been concerns over gendering technology, since doing so reinforces societal stereotypes. That happens because the stereotypes commonly associated with men, such as competitiveness and dominance, are more valued than those associated with women. That is likely true, says Ashley Martin, a professor at Stanford University. “People are stereotyping their gendered objects in very traditional ways,” she says.
          Removing gender from the picture altogether seems like a simple way to fix this. Yet, as Martin has found in her latest research, conducted with Malia Mason, of Columbia Universty, gender is one of the fundamental ways people form connections with objects, particularly those designed to evoke human characteristics.
          Throughout the experiments, Martin and Mason found that gender increased users’ feelings of attachment to devices such as digital voice assistants –– and their interest in purchasing them. For example, participants said they would be less likely to buy a genderless voice assistant than versions with male or female voices.

Hope Reese. Is That Self-Driving Car a Boy or a Girl? In: Insights by Stanford Business. Internet:<http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/>  (adapted)

Judge the following item, related to the vocabulary and to the grammar in the precedent text.


The pronouns “their” and “them” in “their interest in purchasing them”, in the last paragraph, stand for “users” and for “devices such as digital voice assistants”, respectively.


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Q2210441 Inglês

Fill out the gaps below with one the following words: that / where / which / who.


1. That’s the store ___ they buy their shoes.

2. The book, ___ we’ve been reading at school, was written long ago.

3. These are the directors and movies ___ I like.

4. Marie Curie is the woman ___ discovered radium.


Mark the alternative that fills out, correctly and respectively, the gaps in the sentences above. 

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Q2210429 Inglês

Stop Wasting Time: A 15-minute Planning Session That Will Save You Hours







(Available at: https://www.classycareergirl.com/5-simple-time-management-tips-for-a-great-week/– textespecially adapted for this test).
Mark the alternative that shows to what the highlighted pronouns are referring to, in the order they appear in the text: “it” (l. 15), “These” (l. 21), and “This” (l. 23). 
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Q2209847 Inglês


Try these expert tips for a safer solo trip




(Available at: https://news.airbnb.com/try-these-expert-tips-for-a-safer-solo-trip/ – text especially adapted for this text).

Mark the alternative that shows what the highlighted pronouns are referring to, in the order they appear in the text: “which” (l. 21), “it” (l. 23), and “them” (l. 25).
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Q2209568 Inglês
"Call me Ishmael." - Herman Melville, Moby Dick
What is the grammatical function of "me" in the opening sentence of Herman Melville's novel "Moby Dick"? 
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Q2208084 Inglês

Choose the CORRECT answer.


“The mother posted a birthday card to his son, _________ lives in Australia.” 

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Q2208078 Inglês

Choose the CORRECT answer.


A friend: “How was your holiday?

Me: “Well, it was boring. I traveled _________.” 

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Q2206457 Inglês
Text V 

A New Buzz In Teaching And Learning: ChatGPT
   […]
   We live in a world constructed by data and content. With theavailability of AI chatbots, we can generate tons of them, with just a few taps on our keyboards. Undeniably, ChatGPT is a powerful and versatile language model, with the potential to revolutionize how we learn and interact with machines. As the Chinese idiom says, "Water can carry a boat but can also overturn it." This expression is a reminder that everything has its pros and cons, and it's therefore important to remain aware of potential risks and take the necessary precautions. With this in mind, it’s of the utmost importance to use this tool in a responsible and ethical manner, to ensure that the output aligns with the desired use cases.

From: https://elearningindustry.com/a-new-buzz-in-teaching-and-learning-chatgpt
The pronoun in “its pros and cons” refers to the word
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Q2206441 Inglês
Text I

What is “World Englishes?”

        The term World Englishes refers to the differences in the English language that emerge as it is used in various contexts across the world. Scholars of World Englishes identify the varieties of English used in different sociolinguistic contexts, analyzing their history, background, function, and influence.
       Languages develop to fulfill the needs of the societies that use them. Because societies contain a diverse range of social needs, and because these needs can differ across cultures and geographies, multiple varieties of the English language exist. These include American English, British English, Australian English, Canadian English, Indian English, and so on.
         While there is no single way for a new variety of English to emerge, its development can generally be described as a process of adaptation. A certain group of speakers take a familiar variety of English and adapt the features of that variety to suit the needs of their social context.
          For example, a store selling alcoholic beverages is called a “liquor store” in American English, whereas it is called an “offlicence” in British English. The latter term derives from British law, which distinguishes between businesses licensed to sell alcoholic beverages for consumption off the premises and those licensed for consumption at the point of sale (i.e., bars and pubs).
      Such variations do not occur in terms of word choice only. They happen also in terms of spelling, pronunciation, sentence structure, accent, and meaning. As new linguistic adaptations accumulate over time, a distinct variety of English eventually emerges.
       World Englishes scholars use a range of different criteria to recognize a new English variant as an established World English. These include the sociolinguistic context of its use, its range of functional domains, and the ease with which new speakers can become acculturated to it, among other criteria. 



Adapted from:
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/multilingual/world_englishes/#:~:text=The%20term%2 0World%20Englishes%20refers,background%2C%20function%2C%20and%20influen ce.
In the last paragraph, the pronoun in “These include” refers to
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Q2206408 Inglês
Choose the alternative that presents the reported speech of the sentence “Can you help me with my homework?”.
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Q2204963 Inglês
Text I

What is English as a Lingua Franca?

      ‘English’, as a language, has for some time been seen as a global phenomenon and, therefore, as no longer defined by fixed territorial, cultural and social functions. At the same time, people using English around the world have been shaping it and adapting it to their contexts of use and have made it relevant to their socio-cultural settings. English as a Lingua Franca, or ELF for short, is a field of research interest that was born out of this tension between the global and the local, and it originally began as a ramification of the World Englishes framework in order to address the international, or, rather, transnational perspective on English in the world. The field of ELF very quickly took on a nature of its own in its attempt to address the communication, attitudes, ideologies in transnational contexts, which go beyond the national categorisations of World Englishes (such as descriptions of Nigerian English, Malaysian English and other national varieties). ELF research, therefore, has built on World Englishes research by focusing on the diversity of English, albeit from more transnational, intercultural and multilingual perspectives.
      ELF is an intercultural medium of communication used among people from different socio-cultural and linguistic backgrounds, and usually among people from different first languages. Although it is possible that many people who use ELF have learnt it formally as a foreign language, at school or in an educational institution, the emphasis is on using rather than on learning. And this is a fundamental difference between ELF and English as a Foreign Language, or EFL, whereby people learn English to assimilate to or emulate native speakers. In ELF, instead, speakers are considered language users in their own right, and not failed native speakers or deficient learners of English. Some examples of typical ELF contexts may include communication among a group of neuroscientists, from, say, Belgium, Brazil and Russia, at an international conference on neuroscience, discussing their work in English, or an international call concerning a business project between Chinese and German business experts, or a group of migrants from Syria, Ethiopia and Iraq discussing their migration documents and requirements in English. The use of English will of course depend on the linguistic profile of the participants in these contexts, and they may have another common language at their disposal (other than English), but today ELF is the most common medium of intercultural communication, especially in transnational contexts.
        So, research in ELF pertains to roughly the same area of research as English as a contact language and English sociolinguistics. However, the initial impetus to conducting research in ELF originated from a pedagogical rationale – it seemed irrelevant and unrealistic to expect learners of English around the world to conform to native norms, British or American, or even to new English national varieties, which would be only suitable to certain socio-cultural and geographical locations. So, people from Brazil, France, Russia, Mozambique, or others around the world, would not need to acquire the norms originated and relevant to British or American English speakers, but could orientate themselves towards more appropriate and relevant ways of using English, or ELF. Researchers called for “closing a conceptual gap” between descriptions of native English varieties and new empirical and analytical approaches to English in the world. With the compilation of a number of corpora, ELF empirical research started to explore how English is developing, emerging and changing in its international uses around the world. Since the empirical corpus work started, research has expanded beyond the pedagogical aim, to include explorations of communication in different domains of expertise (professional, academic, etc.) and in relation to other concepts and research, such as culture, ideology and identity.

Adapted from https://www.gold.ac.uk/glits-e/ back-issues/english-as-a-lingua-franca/

The possessive determiner in “changing in its international uses” (3rd paragraph) refers to
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Q2201491 Inglês
In the text given we can find pronouns. They are used as a cohesive device. Tick the alternative that DOES NOT have a pronoun.
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Q2184946 Inglês
It is known that in the Morphological area, the final morpheme 's' can represent the plural of nouns (-es1), the verb in Simple Present Tense in the 3rd person singular (-es2) and the idea of possession in the genitive case (-es3). Analyze the verbs taken from the text and mark the alternative in which the -es2 sound is made in /s/.
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Ano: 2023 Banca: UFPR Órgão: IF-PR Prova: UFPR - 2023 - IF-PR - Letras Português/Inglês |
Q2183141 Inglês

The following text refers to question




Disponível em: https://www.inglesnasescolas.org/en/headline/english-language-in-bncc/. Adaptado. 

Choose the correct alternative in regards to Pronoun Reference (the pronouns are in bold and underlined letters in the text).
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Q2176570 Inglês
Text CB1A2-I 

    The quest for universal administrative standards to promote the effective application of public laws and policies gave birth to the field of public administration. Woodrow Wilson argued for a distinction between politics and administration, arguing that the former was more concerned with democracy, justice, and equality, while the latter was more concerned with efficiency, as he postulated that “administration lies beyond the proper domain of politics; administrative questions are not political questions” (Wilson, 1887). 
    According to Waldo (1948), the means and measurements of efficiency were the same for all administrations: democracy, if it were to survive, could not afford to ignore the lessons of centralization, hierarchy and discipline. Bureaucracy as an organisational type has seen its heyday in the field of public administration, owing to Woodrow Wilson’s Transfer of Administrative Principles.
    That notwithstanding, the field has gone through paradigmatic evolution over time by a quest for management paradigm derived from the discipline of business administration. The management approach is said to hold the promise of future public sector reform, replacing the administrative approach traditionally provided by public administration. A new concept arises when the management perspective is combined with an emphasis on the public sector: public management. 
    Courses and programmes, as well as whole academic institutions and colleges, are adapting by switching from the term “public administration” to “public management”. Considering the growing demands for efficiency in the public sector, the transition from a public administration to a public management framework seems to be the right step.

M.O. Obimpeh and J.A. Dankwa. Public administration – public management interface: how different is the “management” from the “administration”? Internet: (adapted)

In the second paragraph of text CB1A2-I, the determiner “its” refers to
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Q2174632 Inglês
Complete the sentence below with the correct pronoun. Choose the CORRECT answer.
“Sarah and Patrick live in a small apartment. _________ dog barks all day long.”
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Q2170179 Inglês
Assinale a alternativa correta quanto ao uso dos possessivos:
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Q2166435 Inglês
Instruction: answer question based on the following text. The highlights throughout the text are cited in the questions.

The Best & Worst Places for Expats in 2022 (Part 1)



*expat: informal for expatriate, someone who does not live in their own country. 
Consider the following statements about the excerpt “Among the most interesting findings are #1 Mexico delights with more than just its food” (l. 03):
I. The excerpt contains both a comparative and a superlative structure. II. To convey the opposite meaning, it would be grammatically correct to replace the superlative structure with “the less interesting” or “the more boring”. III. The word “its” is a possessive adjective. IV. There would be no significative changes in meaning if the word “among” were replaced by “between” because they are always interchangeable.
Which statements are correct?
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Q2160162 Inglês
Considering the demonstrative pronouns, check C for Correct and I for Incorrect alternatives. After that, check the alternative that presents the CORRECT sequence:
(_) Look at those hawks in the sky. (_) These are my books. (_) Is these hotel nice?
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Q2128611 Inglês


Available at: https://www.synchronybank.com/blog/brief-history-of-money/. Retrieved on: Sept 10, 2022. Adapted.

In the fragment in the fourth paragraph of the text, “It was the Lydians, around 600 BC, who get credit for a critical step in this process: fashioning the first known coins, which were made of a gold and silver alloy” the words in bold refer respectively to:
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181: C
182: A
183: A
184: D
185: A
186: C
187: E
188: A
189: D
190: B
191: C
192: C
193: A
194: D
195: B
196: B
197: A
198: A
199: A
200: D