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Sobre substantivos e compostos | nouns and compounds em inglês
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READ TEXT II AND ANSWER THE QUESTION THAT FOLLOWS IT:
TEXT II
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I.Personal pronouns in English can be used as subjects or objects, depending on their position in the sentence.
II.Adjectives in English usually precede the nouns they describe, as in "a small house."
III.Uncountable nouns in English, such as "water" and "information," can be made plural by adding "-s."
The correct statements are:
I.The verb to have in the simple present tense is conjugated as has for all subjects.
II.The plural of the word child is childs.
III.In English, the adjective precedes the noun it describes.
The correct statements are:
I.The use of articles in the text helps to clarify the distinctions between specific entities, such as "the non-English mother-tongue world" and "a stable image of English".
II.The noun "power" is used in the text as a countable noun, indicating multiple types of power in different contexts.
III.The noun "language" is treated as both countable and uncountable, depending on the context in which it is used.
Choose the correct alternative based on the statements:
Escolha a opção que complete corretamente a frase, levando em conta o uso de substantivos contáveis e incontáveis.
After the meeting, we’ll need to gather some __________ to make a decision. However, a few __________ in the report seem to be missing.
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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.
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.
Research-Article
How to be a successful app developer: lessons from the simulation of an app ecosystem
Soo Ling Lim, Peter J. Bentley
Abstract
App developers are constantly competing against each other to win more downloads for their apps. With hundreds of thousands of apps in these online stores, what strategy should a developer use to be successful? Should they innovate, make many similar apps, optimize their own apps or just copy the apps of others? Looking more deeply, how does a complex app ecosystem perform when developers choose to use different strategies? This paper investigates these questions using AppEco, the first Artificial Life model of mobile application ecosystems. In AppEco, developer agents build and upload apps to the app store; user agents browse the store and download the apps. A distinguishing feature of AppEco is the explicit modelling of apps as artefacts. In this work we use AppEco to simulate Apple's iOS app ecosystem and investigate common developer strategies, evaluating them in terms of downloads received, app diversity, and adoption rate.
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2384697.2384698
The same word can also be used as a noun in sentence:
Assinale a alternativa que preenche corretamente as lacunas:
I. She has ______ friends in her new school.
II. He has _____ books on his shelf.
III. We need to buy _____ milk for the recipe.
IV. There are _____ clouds in the sky today.
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