Questões de Concurso Público Prefeitura de Corumbá - MS 2018 para Professor - Inglês

Match column A with B regarding how sentences are classified.

A.Type of sentence
1. Simple Sentence.
2. Coordination.
3. Subordination.
4. Embbedding.

B. Examples
( ) She became a celebrated calypso singer and dancer in a San Francisco cabaret (l.21).
( ) She recently guest conducted the Boston Pops simply because she felt like it. (l.30-31).
( ) She has written more than 20 books, and she once had three titles (l.31).
( ) She prepares the kind of food that makes you want to take a bite and tell about it. (l.38-39).

Mark the correct order.

Consider the two possible replyes for the sentence below; then analyse the following assumptions.
A: I just got back from an interview with Maya Angelou. B1: You had a good time with her? B2: Did you have a good time with her?
I. The only correct form to make questions is B2. II. If B1 was accompanyed by a rising question intonation, it would suggest that B was expecting a confimation of positive pressuposition. III. If B2 utterance was accompanyed of unmarked, neutral intonation, we might assume B had uncertainty about what A’s reply would be.
Which ones are INCORRECT?

Read the sentences below; then answer the question that follows.

• Maya Angelou was born in St. Louis in 1928.
• Maya Angelou was the first woman poet to write and recite a poem at a presidential inaugural ceremony.

Which of the sentences combines most accurately and concisely the two sentences above? 

Mark the word that belongs to a different part of the speech.

Analyse the statements below about the use of the simple past in the third paragraph:
I. It’s used to refer to single events that took place simultaneous. II. There is no explicit time marker, so it would be possible to transforme all verbs into present perfect form. III. It is used to make reference to a definite past time clearly separated from the moment of speaking.
Which ones are correct?