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"She has been studying English for two years."
"After months of hard work, the team finally __________ a solution to the problem."
Select the correct alternative.
Maya Angelou (1928-2014) had a broad and distinguished career both inside and outside the literary realm. She is most famous for her work as a poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist, working with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. She also worked in entertainment as a singer, a dancer, an actor, and a director. Her poetry was inspired and informed by her life and work, and this personal connection made her poems profound and powerful. Over the course of a career spanning the 1960s to her death in 2014, she captured, provoked, inspired, and ultimately transformed American people and culture.
Internet: <poetryfoundation.org> (adapted).
About the preceding text, its linguistic features and the meanings it conveys, as well as the reading strategies that apply to it, judge the item that follow.
The predominant verb tense used in the text is the simple past.
Tom Gauld. The narrator. Internet: <theguardian.com>.
According to the previous comic strip, judge the items that follow.
The sentence “Get out of our house!” is grammatically inadequate because it is missing the subject, essential part of every clause.
Tom Gauld. The narrator. Internet: <theguardian.com>.
According to the previous comic strip, judge the items that follow.
In the second panel, there are examples of four different verb tenses.
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.
In both the excerpts “has a history going back to the 15th century”, and “have a history going back to repatriation”, the expression “going back” works as a phrasal verb.
Considering the language used in the Untitled story and in the previous text, judge the item below.
In the text, the word “fun” is a verb.
Choose the option that best completes the sentence below:
"She regretted not ______ the opportunity when it was offered to her."
I. She has been working here since five years. II. I have already completed the assignment. III. They have gone to the supermarket. IV. He has lived in London for three years.
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According to what is inferred from usage, the ING forms are:
The magic realm was just ahead of us, all wrapped in mystery and cloaked by soft haze. No dwellings could be seen at that point, since the winding road did not leave much of a clear spatial prospect, but some characters who had always inhabited imagination were evidently visible then. On the grass sat an enormous frog gazing at a swarm of insects in the distance which sharpened our curiosity, as if unpredictable surprises were to come. The first scenario was promising, so we went on the road. Next, under a tree was lying one of the biggest men we had ever seen peacefully sleeping. Directly in front of him stood a great hut, indicating its landlord was the slumbering creature. As we quietly proceeded and the mist scattered, we were able to view that along the road came a strange procession.
I. “You should be the change that you want to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
II. “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” – Maya Angelou
III. “I might have been born in a hovel, but I am determined to travel with the greats.” – Tina Turner
IV.“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
The shades of modality can be identified respectively in
Read the poem to answer the following question:
Conheça nossos planos