Questão de Inglês — Advérbios (Adverbs) — VUNESP 2023
- Código
- vu183321
- Banca
- VUNESP
- Órgão
- Pref Araçatuba
- Ano
- 2023
- Cargo
- Ori Ped ( )
The reality of Global or World English(es) has caused some people to become very interested in what actually happens when it is used as a lingua franca - that is, between two people who do not share the same language and for whom English is not their mother tongue. A number of researchers have studied such conversations. In particular, Barbara Seidlhofer, at the University of Vienna, has noted a number of somewhat surprising characteristics, including:
• No use of third person present simple tense
• interchangeable use of the relative pronouns who and which
• omission of definite and indefinite articles where they are obligatory in native-speaker English, and insertion where they do not occur in native English
• Use of an all-purpose tag question such as or no?
• Increasing of reduced redundancy by adding prepositions, or by increasing explicitness
• Pluralization of nouns which are considered uncountable in native-speaker English
• use of that clauses instead of infinitive constructions
(Jeremy Harmer . The practice of English language teaching. 4th ed. Longman, 2007. Adaptado)
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In the excerpt from the text – has caused some people to become very interested in what actually happens –, the words in bold are a case of adjective + preposition. An example of correct use of adjective + preposition is found in the expression in bold in:
- AAfter that uncomfortable experience, Frances has always been afraid at the dark.
- BI liked many subjects when I was in school, and I used to be very good at Math.
- CWhen the meeting was over, we noticed they were not impressed on our arguments.
- DDespite her difficulty with English, Julie is married with an American.
- EThe country’s economy has become increasingly dependent of agrobusiness.