Questões de Concurso Comentadas sobre advérbios e conjunções | adverbs and conjunctions em inglês

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Q3965328 Inglês
Sentence structure in English follows a predominant Subject-Verb-Object (SVO) order, but can be modified for emphasis or to establish textual cohesion. Analyze the following statements:
I.In questions, the auxiliary verb (do, does, did, have) or a modal verb must generally be placed before the subject, except when the "wh-word" is the subject itself.
II.Connectors such as "however" and "nevertheless" are used to introduce a result that logically follows from the previous sentence, acting as synonyms for "so."
III.The position of adverbs of frequency, such as "always" or "never," is typically before the main verb but after the verb "to be" in simple tenses.

Choose the alternative that presents the CORRECT statement(s):
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Q3964176 Inglês
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How do we measure attention?


    Attention, broadly defined, is the ability to direct the mind on a specific task, says Gloria Mark, author of Attention Span: A Groundbreaking Way to Restore Balance, Happiness and Productivity. There are two main types of attention, Mark explains. Involuntary attention is automatic—it’s what allows us to react to a loud noise or a jarringly bright light. Focalized attention, by contrast, is the ability to concentrate on a specific task. This latter type is what scientists measure when researching attention spans. 

    Since the early 2000s, Mark has tracked focalized attention by observing how long people remain on a task before switching to something else—such as checking email or opening a new browser tab. At first, Mark used in-person observations— researchers shadowed employees throughout the office. In recent years, she has tracked attention spans using software that monitors people’s computers.

    “Data from our first study, in 2003, revealed that people spent an average of 2.5 minutes on something before turning their attention to a different task,” she says, “Our most recent study done over the past five years shows that the figure has gone down to 40 seconds.” The measure doesn’t capture how long people can focus under ideal conditions, Mark notes, meaning shorter attention spans don’t reflect a permanent loss of attention capacity, but changes in how often people break their focus in daily life.


National Geographic. Jan 21, 2026. Adaptado.
Considere o excerto a seguir: “jarringly bright light.” O emprego do advérbio “jarringly”, no contexto, indica que a luz provoca uma reação por ser
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Q3953460 Inglês
O posicionamento dos advérbios na sentença em Inglês pode alterar o foco ou a gramaticalidade da frase, dependendo da classe do advérbio. Acerca das regras de sintaxe adverbial, marque V, para as afirmativas verdadeiras, e F, para as falsas.
(__) Advérbios de frequência definidos, como daily e weekly, são geralmente posicionados no final da oração, especialmente quando indicam periodicidade de ações.
(__) O advérbio 'enough' deve ser posicionado antes do adjetivo ou advérbio que ele modifica, como em 'enough good'.
(__) Advérbios de modo terminados em -ly podem ser posicionados na oração, inclusive na posição medial, entre o sujeito e o verbo principal, conforme a estrutura da frase.
(__) A posição inicial é vedada para advérbios de conexão (connecting adverbs) como 'however' e 'furthermore'.
Após análise, assinale a alternativa que apresenta a sequência CORRETA dos itens acima, de cima para baixo:
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Q3953454 Inglês
O Sintagma Adverbial (Adverb Phrase) tem como núcleo um advérbio e pode conter modificadores. Acerca da estrutura desse sintagma, marque V, para as afirmativas verdadeiras, e F, para as falsas.
(__) O núcleo adverbial pode ser pré-modificado por intensificadores como 'very', 'quite' e 'rather'.
(__) Sintagmas adverbiais funcionam primariamente como adjuntos adverbiais na oração.
(__) É impossível que um sintagma adverbial modifique outro advérbio dentro da mesma oração.
(__) A comparação de advérbios segue regras morfológicas similares às dos adjetivos (er/more).
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Q3946996 Inglês
Which option employs the connector in a way that most accurately reflects concessive contrast while maintaining syntactic CORRECTNESS academic tone, and logical coherence?

Target meaning: The theory is widely accepted; however, it still fails to explain several anomalies in the data.
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Q3939309 Inglês

Read the text below and answer the questions:


New beginnings in Wrocław: The refugee students building brighter futures


Eighteen-year-old Daria hopes to begin studying psychology at the university in Wroclaw, Poland in the autumn. She already knows what career she wants to pursue: working with formerly incarcerated individuals to support their reintegration into society.


“I want to help people start a new life after having made mistakes,” Daria says. “I believe everyone deserves a chance to change, and I want to support them.” Three years ago, it wasn’t clear that Daria would be able to study psychology at all – or even graduate from secondary school. In early 2022, with the escalation of the war in Ukraine, she was forced to leave her home of Kryvyi Rih in central Ukraine for Wroclaw, together with her mother and younger brother.


Daria was one of hundreds of Ukrainians who ended up at the same high school in Wroclaw. Wrocław’s multicultural identity has long been a source of pride, and the school is no different: out of its 1,500 students, 500 are from Ukraine. There are also students from Belarus, Kyrgyzstan and Kenya, among other countries.


Still, the transition to life in a different country, while being separated from loved ones who remained in Ukraine, was not easy. In the first few months, Daria herself needed psychological support.


Eighteen-year-old Daria hopes to study psychology at university. If that doesn’t work out, she is also considering game design as a backup plan, inspired by her strong interest in video games.


Eighteen-year-old Daria hopes to study psychology at university. If that doesn’t work out, she is also considering game design as a backup plan, inspired by her strong interest in video games.


Fortunately, she found support from the educators and staff at her school. This included the school psychologist, who is Polish but speaks Ukrainian. Her teachers also helped. “They genuinely do everything they can to help us adapt,” Daria says.


“They show us that they are learning together with us – they’re not pretending to know everything. They make mistakes too, they apologize, and everything feels very natural and supportive.”


For 18-year-old Kamila, who graduated from the same high school this year, the language barrier was the greatest challenge. “You don’t immediately understand what the teachers are saying, and you have to ask several times,” she says. “They couldn’t really explain either, because they didn’t speak Ukrainian. That was very hard for me.”


Kamila recalls that during her first months at the new secondary school, she had little time for her hobbies – she spent nearly all her free time learning Polish and keeping up with school assignments. Kamila recalls that during her first months at the new secondary school, she had little time for her hobbies – she spent nearly all her free time learning Polish and keeping up with school assignments. 


Subjects like physics and biology were especially difficult because of the complex technical vocabulary. “I had to learn every term from scratch,” says Kamila, who came from IvanoFrankivsk, western Ukraine, with her family in 2022.


Learning Polish wasn’t only key to succeeding in school, but to feeling connected. “Only after I overcame the language barrier I did start participating in extracurricular activities at school,” Kamila explains. “It was important for me to build friendships with Polish students too.”


Despite these difficulties, Kamila now dreams of becoming a translator and is currently learning English and German in addition to Polish.


Seventeen-year-old Sofia, another graduate of the high school, shares this love of language. She studies English, Polish and German. “Aside from languages, I also love history,” she says.


Seventeen-year-old Sofia, who graduated this year from a secondary school in Wrocław, dreams of a career as a translator. She has applied to several universities in Wrocław to pursue her studies.


Seventeen-year-old Sofia, who graduated this year from a secondary school in Wrocław, dreams of a career as a translator. She has applied to several universities in Wrocław to pursue her studies.


Sofia’s passion for history deepened her connection to Wrocław, one of Poland’s oldest and most culturally rich cities. “I really like Wrocław, and right now I think that if my future is in Poland, it will be in this city,” she says.


Like many of her peers, Sofia’s first steps in a new country were filled with fear and uncertainty.


“At the beginning, it was a bit scary – a different country, a different culture, a different language,” she recalls. “But there were actually many kind people who were ready to help. Thanks to them, I managed to adapt, and now I feel quite good living here.”


As well as graduating with honors from her school in Ukraine, in Wroclaw, Sofia received the red stripe distinction, a special recognition for outstanding academic results in Polish schools. She also earned a scholarship for being the top-performing student in the school last year.


Seventeen-year-old Sofia and her mother, Tetiana. The family plans to stay in Poland, as Sofia sees her future in this country.


Sofia and her mother, Tetiana. The family plans to stay in Poland, as Sofia sees her future in this country.


Her family has recently decided to stay in Poland.


“Our daughter sees her future here, and we are ready to support her decision,” her mother Tetiana says.


These stories are a powerful reminder of the resilience and potential of young people when they are given the right opportunities and support.


As we mark International Youth Day, UNICEF celebrates youth like Daria, Kamila and Sofia – who, despite the trauma of war and displacement, are building their futures through education, courage, and determination.


UNICEF, in partnership with local governments and civil society, remains committed to ensuring that every young person has access to quality education and support, no matter their background or circumstances.


This work for refugee children and caregivers from Ukraine in Poland is made possible thanks to the generous support of the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration of the US Department of State (PRM) and the Government of the Republic of Korea and the Government of Japan.


Source: https://www.unicef.org/eca/stories/new-beginnings-in-Wroclaw 

Daria describes the teachers' approach with the statement: "They genuinely do everything they can to help us adapt." Evaluate the following assertions about the adverb genuinely in this context:


I. The adverb functions as a frequency marker, indicating that the teachers' supportive actions occur on a regular, systematic basis rather than sporadically or inconsistently.

II. The adverb operates as an emphasizing element that intensifies the authenticity of the teachers' commitment, suggesting their efforts are sincere rather than performative.

III. The adverb modifies the entire verb phrase "do everything they can to help us adapt," conveying the speakers' perception of the teachers' genuine investment in student adaptation.

IV. The adverb serves to quantify the degree or extent of assistance provided, measuring the intensity of the teachers' helpful interventions on a scalar continuum.


Which combination exclusively contains linguistically accurate statements?

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Q3871593 Inglês
In the sentence “She spoke very softly during the meeting,” the word “softly” is classified as: 
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Q3870850 Inglês

Read the following sentence carefully:



“Despite the heavy rain, Sarah continued her lecture with remarkable clarity and confidence. Her students, however, seemed distracted and tired.”



Sign the best explanation about the grammatical and discourse functions in the excerpt:

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Q3857873 Inglês
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle. A Scandal in Bohemia (Part I)


    I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, Blank I in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time to time I Blank II some vague account of his doings: of his summons to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland. Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely shared with all the readers of the daily press, I knew little of my former friend and companion.

One night – it was on the twentieth of March, 1888 – I was returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I Blank III the well-remembered door, which must always be associated in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their own story. He was at work again. He had risen out of his drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which had formerly been in part my own.

His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner. Then he stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular introspective fashion.

From: https://sherlock-holm.es/stories/pdf/a4/1-sided/advs.pdf. Accessed on 12/15/2025.
As in “He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly...”, the adverbs of manner are correctly used in: 
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Q3845198 Inglês
TEXTO II
“She had always believed that learning a language was a matter of discipline and repetition. However, after years of teaching, she realized that true learning emerged not from memorization, but from interaction, experimentation and the courage to make mistakes.” 
A conjunção however estabelece, no texto, uma relação de: 
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Q3839377 Inglês
Texto II

When the Classroom Goes Online

Over the past decade, the English classroom has changed more than it had in the previous hundred years. Mobile phones, social networks, artificial intelligence tools and online platforms are now part of students’ daily lives, and the teaching of English can no longer ignore this reality.

However, the use of technology in language education is not a matter of simply replacing books with screens. What truly matters is how these resources are used. A video, a message exchange, a podcast or an online discussion only become educational when they are integrated into meaningful learning situations, connected to students’ experiences and guided by clear pedagogical objectives.

Teachers who understand this shift no longer see themselves as the only source of knowledge. Instead, they act as mediators who help learners build meaning, develop autonomy and reflect on language use in real communicative contexts. This perspective is strongly supported by the principles of the Brazilian National Common Core (BNCC), which emphasizes the social and functional use of language.

In this sense, learning English is not just about memorizing structures or rules. It involves interpreting texts, negotiating meaning, expressing identity and participating in global conversations. When the classroom goes online, it does not lose its educational role — it expands it.
O conectivo HOWEVER introduz ideia de:
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Q3837332 Inglês
The position of adverbs in English follows stricter syntactic rules than in Portuguese. Choose the alternative that correctly places the frequency adverb 'always' and the manner adverb 'quickly' in the sentence below.
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Q3829932 Inglês
Adverbial phrases provide circumstantial information, and their specific placement at the beginning of a sentence can trigger syntactic changes like subject-auxiliary inversion. Analyze the assertions below regarding negative adverbials and inversion:
I. Fronting negative adverbials like "Under no circumstances" or "Seldom" requires subject-auxiliary inversion (e.g., "should you go").
II. Adverbials of frequency always trigger inversion when placed at the beginning of the sentence (e.g., "Sometimes go I").
III. "Little did he know" is a fixed phrase exemplifying negative inversion used for dramatic or emphatic effect.
Select the correct analysis: 
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Q3828367 Inglês

texto seguinte servirá de base para responder à questão.


CNN Health Exhausted? The reason may be how you're using technology

Analysis by Kara Alaimo

Oct 7, 2025


Kara Alaimo is a professor of communication at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Her book "Over the Influence: Why Social Media Is Toxic for Women and Girls — And How We Can Take It Back" was published in 2024 by Alcove Press.


You may think you're exhausted because, like me, you have too many things on your plate. But there's another reason, according to a new book.


Case in point: While | was writing this piece, | responded to dozens of emails from colleagues and students, got a huge medical bill, replied to a text about a home repair, and learned that my older daughter needs to wear white to school next Monday while the younger one is supposed to wear the colors of fall.


This relentless barrage of interruptions and switching between thoughts and technology platforms is leaving us utterly exhausted, says Paul Leonardi, department chair and Duca Family Professor of Technology Management | at the University of California, Santa Barbara.


He explains how this happens in his new book, "Digital Exhaustion: Simple Rules for Reclaiming Your Life."


| spoke to Leonardi about what's making us all so tired | and what we can do about it.


CNN: You say one reason we're so exhausted is that we keep switching between platforms. How does that make us exhausted?


Paul Leonardi: Every tool we use requires some amount of cognitive focus. We have to learn the tool we're enmeshed in. When we switch, we have to disengage | and reengage in another area of focus, and we also have to switch how we're using that tool. Our brains do not do a good job of switching that quickly. The main issue is that we haven't evolved to make the switches as quickly as we do today. It leaves us feeling exhausted.


CNN: You found that we often don't realize we're getting exhausted from all this digital switching. Why?


Leonardi: It comes back to the way our bodies have evolved over time. We have good sensory feedback to show us when we're physically tired. Otherwise, we could collapse, and that's dangerous. So, our body knows to send signals to our brain to say stop. But we didn't evolve to sit in an office in front of a computer, so our brain doesn't know to tell itself it's tired. We can just keep taxing ourselves, but that residue builds up over time. Then we feel like we've been hit by a semitruck


CNN: What can we do to address that exhaustion?


Leonardi: Think about reducing the kinds of switches we make throughout the day.


In the book | talk about three kinds of switches. Switching between modalities is switching across tools. Think about the different videoconferencing platforms you use. You might use Zoom and then switch to Microsoft Teams. They seem like they're roughly the same. But how many times have you been in a meeting and thought, "I need to share my screen. How do | do that on this platform?" And those little changes are enough to really wear us out when they accumulate over time


The second type is what | call switches between domains, and that's when we're working on one task, get interrupted and then switch to a different task. The unplugging and then re-plugging into the other task take quite a bit of effort. It's a tremendous tax that we pay.


The third type is switching between different areas of life. How many times in your day are you getting a quick text from your kid's school? Or the plumber calls to tell you they're going to be late and wants to talk about the problem in your house. Those switches across really big domains are even more exhausting because they pull us completely out of our thought process in one area, and then we have to get back.


CNN: You say social media is the most exhausting type of platform to use. Why?


Leonardi: | talk about three forces that exhaust us. One is attention. On social media we're constantly switching between things because apps are pushing us different notifications. First somebody liked something, and then there's an ad. The second force of exhaustion is making inferences. We get a snippet of data, and it's not quite enough to tell us the whole picture. So, we have to fill in the blanks, and that takes effort. On social media we're constantly different apps and making inferences. We see somebody is on a trip, and we're like, they must have a lot of money. And they're having the time of their life. We're filling in the blanks.


The last is emotion. When our emotions get piqued, whether for good or for bad, that's also exhausting. On social media we do social comparisons, so we get jealous that somebody else is doing something we wish we were doing. Or we get annoyed that we see a bunch of friends hanging out and we're not part of the group.


Social media is so exhausting because it maximizes all three of these forces.


CNN: You say it's especially hard for people who work from home to avoid this kind of exhaustion. Why is that? Leonardi: One of the big reasons remote workers experience exhaustion even more than people in the office — or it feels more acute — is that it's very difficult to create separation between work and home. They're constantly trying to manage that boundary, and that's so exhausting.


They also are more dependent on tools for everything, so they don't get a break. If you're in the office and you have an in-person meeting, you don't have to switch onto your Zoom platform. You actually get a break for a little bit when you're talking to somebody in the hallway. You don't get that on these tools.


You're also managing your presence when you're working from home. You need to make sure people know you're available because it matters for people's perception of your work performance. So, you're putting on a sort of act that's also exhausting


CNN: You recommend turning off the video of ourselves in meetings. Why?


Leonardi: | think it's a good idea sometimes. We tend to fixate on ourselves, and doing that creates a feeling of self-consciousness. It also creates more effort for us to manage our presentation to others.


Imagine if you were talking to friends, or you're in a meeting, and you have a mirror in front of your face the entire time. You're like, oh my gosh, how do | look right now? There are bags under my eyes, and | can't believe | made that stupid facial expression. We don't do that in regular life.


These extra little activities accumulate to wear us out over time.


Communicating in person instead of texting, when possible, can reduce digital exhaustion and create richer relationships.


CNN: What's your best advice for parents who are exhausted from keeping up with endless group chats about car pools and soccer games?


Leonardi: | never intended to write about that in my book, but it came up so often in the interviews | did.


One strategy | heard that was quite effective was calculating whether a car pool is actually worth the time you're putting into coordinating it. If you add up all the time you're spending texting with other people, sometimes it adds up to the same amount of time it would take to just drive your kid yourself.


Another strategy people used was reducing those communications by trying to coordinate in person. When they see each other at the soccer game, they have a long conversation about the plan for the next week. A lot of folks find they're developing richer relationships because that discussion about the car pool is just the entrée to a deeper conversation. Those are much more fulfiling relationships than the transactions taking place via text


CNN

No trecho: "This relentless barrage of interruptions and switching between thoughts and technology platforms is leaving us utterly exhausted." Marque a alternativa que identifica corretamente a classe gramatical da palavra utterly.
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Q3818993 Inglês
Adverb placement can radically alter the semantic scope and meaning of a sentence. Analyze the placement of "only" in the sentences below.

I."Only I tasted the wine" implies that no one else tasted it.
II."I only tasted the wine" implies that I did nothing else with the wine (e.g., I didn't drink it all).
III."I tasted only the wine" implies that I tasted nothing else but the wine.
Choose the alternative that indicates the correct interpretation(s). 
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Q3818246 Inglês
In which sentence is the word “eventually” used correctly? 
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Q3979475 Inglês
Which of the following words is an Adverb?
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Q3824380 Inglês
Select the option that uses the adverbs hard, nearly and late with correct meanings and positions.
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Q3824376 Inglês
Choose the option that presents natural tense–adverbial collocation in international academic usage.
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Q3822721 Inglês

Adverbs and prepositions are fundamental elements in constructing sentences in English, as they can indicate, among other things, time, manner, and place. The use of these words in sentences can provide important information regarding the context in which an event took place. Regarding the correct use of adverbs and prepositions, select the correct alternative from the following:

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Respostas
1: D
2: C
3: C
4: C
5: B
6: C
7: D
8: C
9: A
10: C
11: C
12: B
13: D
14: D
15: B
16: B
17: C
18: B
19: C
20: E