Questões de Concurso Sobre verbos | verbs em inglês

Choose the correct sequence to complete the following paragraph.

Alvin Toffler, ___ I met only once, is arriving tomorrow. His most famous book, ___ contains interesting ideas, is called Future Shock. Mr. Toffler warns us against the consequences of technology, ___ may destroy us if we do not take the necessary precautions.

The inflectional {-ing} morpheme is found in the underlined word in alternative

The verb PURCHASED in: “contact the store from which you purchased the product” means:

Leia as afirmativas a seguir:

I. Na frase “i took a swim” ocorre um verbo que pode ser melhor traduzido como correr.

II. O aprendizado de uma língua estrangeira deve possibilitar que o aluno, ao se envolver nos processos de construir significados nessa língua, se constitua em um ser discursivo no uso de uma língua estrangeira.

Marque a alternativa CORRETA:

Leia as afirmativas a seguir:

I. Ocorre verbo na frase: we ran through the whole town in search of the book.

II. Ocorre verbo na frase: the stone travelled the air.

Marque a alternativa CORRETA:

Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the verbs.

This is the best vacation we ______ (ever have).

I have _______ such a beautiful baby (never see).

A great opportunity ______ (have been / miss).

Select the CORRECT answer.

Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the verbs in parentheses.

Once upon a time there ____(is) a little prince who _____ (live) on a planet scarcely bigger than himself and who _____(have) a need for a friend. He _____ (find) a fox who ____ (ask) him to be _____ (tame).

Select the CORRECT answer.

Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the verbs in parentheses.

James ______ got only one car (have).

My parents ______ in New York City (live).

She is ______ at the moment (dance).

Paul ______ to play in the best league (want).

Select the CORRECT answer.

“Beginning next week, the Adjutant and I will be making¹ a series of snap inspections of section barrack-rooms. […] Just ordinary soldierly cleanliness and tidiness is all I want.” (Kingsley Amis)

“And I thought then, Just living long enough wipes out the problems. Puts you in a select club. […] Everybody’s face will have suffered², never just yours.” (Alice Munro)

“If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise³ to the heights you are no doubt capable of.” (Kazuo Ishiguro)

In the sentences above, the tenses of the verb forms in bold are, respectively,

“I have often thought¹ what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.” (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

“She had had² to change her limbs. She had had to get limbs that ordinary people have and walk, but every step she took, agonizing pain! This is what she was willing³ to go through, to get the prince. So, I thought she deserved more than death on the water.” (Alice Munro)

In terms of verb tenses, the verb forms in bold in these sentences are, respectively, in the

Mark the alternative that correctly fills in the blanks in the following quote respectively with the simple past of the verb TO HUM, the past perfect of the verb TO FORGET, and the simple past of the verb TO BE.

“On his desk, a huge old electric typewriter ______¹ — he ______² to turn it off. He was among the many word-processing holdouts in the literary world. The typescript ______ ³ right there, in a neatly squared-off pile, six hundred pages — long, but not vast.” (Ian McEwan)

Mark the alternative that correctly fills in the blanks in the following quotes respectively with the present perfect of the verb TO HAVE in the negative form, the present perfect of the verb TO WEAVE, and the simple past of the verb TO FORM in the interrogative form.

“Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, just remember that all the people in this world ______¹ the advantages that you’ve had.” (F. Scott Fitzgerald)

“We ______² a web, you and I, attached to this world but a separate world of our own invention.” (John Keats)

“Accursed creator! Why ______³ a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?” (Mary Shelley)

Mark the alternative that correctly fills in the blanks in the following quote with the verb TO READ in the present continuous, the verb TO AGREE in the simple future, and the verb TO NEED in the simple present.

“I ______¹ six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you _____² , one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one ______ ³ ten others at the same time.” (Virginia Woolf)

“All the world’s a stage,

And all the men and women merely players;

They have their exits and their entrances;

And one man in his time plays many parts.” (William Shakespeare)

Considering the rules for the formation of the plural of nouns in the English language and considering the tense of verbs, it is correct to state that, in these verses, the plural of the nouns falls into the category of ______ ¹and the verbs are in the ______. ²

Mark the alternative that correctly fills in the blanks of the following quote with the simple past of the verb TO TAKE and the present perfect of the verb TO MAKE respectively.

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I —

I ______¹ the one less traveled by,

And that ______² all the difference.” (Robert Frost)

“It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.”¹ (Jane Austen)

“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and sings the tunes without the words – and never stops at all.”² (Emily Dickinson)

“A poet is a nightingale who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.”³ (Percy Bysshe Shelley)

The verb tenses in the three quotes above are, respectively,

In the sentence: ''For the past three years, Brazil has been gripped by a scandal…'' the underlined expression is:

In the sentence: ''I think every week should have a day in it when boys give presents to girls'', the auxiliary modal verb SHOULD means: