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Questão de Inglês — Adjetivos | Adjectives — VUNESP 2025

InglêsAdjetivos | Adjectives
Código
vu102994
Banca
VUNESP
Órgão
Prefeitura de Tremembé - SP
Ano
2025
Nível
Superior
Cargo
Professor da Educação Básica II - Inglês
Read the following extract to answer question.


    A friend of mine who is an orchestral conductor was asking me (early in our acquaintance) about what I did for a living. When I told him that apart from other activities, I wrote books about how to teach English he said ‘Books in the plural? Surely once you’ve written one, there’s nothing more to say!’ I wanted to reply that he had just argued himself out of a job (I mean, how many performances of Beethoven symphonies have there been in the twenty-first century alone?), but someone else laughed at his question, another musician made a different comment, the conversation moved on, and so Martin-the-conductor’s flippant enquiry evaporated in the convivial atmosphere of a British pub.


    But his question was a good one. Surely we know how to teach languages? After all, people have been doing it successfully for two thousand years or more, and some aspects of teaching in the past have probably not changed that much. But other things have, and continue to change. Which is (I suppose) why every time I re-examine past assumptions about teaching, I find myself questioning and reinterpreting things I thought were fixed. And of course, I am not alone in this. We all do it all the time – or at least we do if we haven’t closed our minds off from the possibility of change and renewal.


   Language teaching, perhaps more than many other activities, reflects the times it takes place in. Language is about communication, after all, and perhaps that is why philosophies and techniques for learning languages seem to develop and change in tune with the societies which give rise to them. Teaching and learning are very human activities; they are social just as much as they are (in our case) linguistic.


    But it’s not just society that changes and evolves. The last decades have seen what feels like unprecedented technological change. The Internet has seen to that, and other educational technology has not lagged behind. And it’s exciting stuff. I’ve tried to reflect that excitement and newness in parts of this new edition.


(Jeremy Harmer, How to teach English. Adaptado)
In the fragment taken from the second paragraph “But other things have, and continue to change”, the word in bold belongs to a group of words made up of adjectives and pronouns such as “the other”, “the others”, “others”, “another”.The alternative in which the use of any of these words is correct is
  1. AThe embassy website has general information about visas, as well as other travel needs.
  2. BWhat others books have you read in the last year or so?
  3. CWe’re sure you’ll find another students to share the dorm with you.
  4. DThere’s other thing we need to discuss before we finish.
  5. EMimi and Chester stayed behind. The others girls went home.
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GabaritoA — The embassy website has general information about visas, as well as other travel needs.

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Use of "other", "another", "others", "the other" in English

Gabarito: letra A. A única alternativa que emprega corretamente uma dessas palavras é a A, onde "other" é usado como adjetivo antes de um substantivo plural ("travel needs") sem artigo, indicando "outras necessidades de viagem". As demais alternativas contêm erros comuns: usar "others" como adjetivo (B e E), usar "another" com plural (C) ou usar "other" sem artigo antes de singular contável (D).

Palavra

Função

Antes de singular

Antes de plural

Exemplo correto

other

Adjetivo

❌ (exceto com artigo/determinante)

other books

another

Adjetivo

another book

others

Pronome

I have others

the other

Adjetivo/Pronome

✅ (adjetivo)

✅ (adjetivo)

the other book / the other books

Alternativa A — ✅ Correta ⟵ GABARITO

Na frase "as well as other travel needs", "other" é um adjetivo que modifica o substantivo plural "travel needs". Não há necessidade de artigo, pois "other" já funciona como determinante. O sentido é de "outras necessidades adicionais". Construção correta.

Alternativa B — ❌ Incorreta

"What others books have you read?" — "others" é um pronome, não um adjetivo. Não pode ser colocado diretamente antes de um substantivo. O correto seria "What other books" (adjetivo) ou "What others" (pronome, sem o substantivo).

Alternativa C — ❌ Incorreta

"You’ll find another students" — "another" é usado antes de substantivos singulares contáveis ("another student"). Com plural, deve-se usar "other" ("other students").

Alternativa D — ❌ Incorreta

"There’s other thing" — "thing" é singular contável e exige um determinante. O correto seria "another thing" ou "the other thing". "Other" sozinho não pode preceder um singular contável.

Alternativa E — ❌ Incorreta

"The others girls went home." — Assim como em B, "the others" é um pronome e não pode modificar um substantivo. O correto é "The other girls" (adjetivo) ou "The others" (pronome, sem "girls").

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