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Comentadas sobre advérbios e conjunções | adverbs and conjunctions em inglês
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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):
(__) 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:
(__) 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).
Após análise, assinale a alternativa que apresenta a sequência CORRETA dos itens acima, de cima para baixo:
Target meaning: The theory is widely accepted; however, it still fails to explain several anomalies in the data.
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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?
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:
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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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
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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).
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: