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Sobre formação de palavras (prefixos e sufixos) | word formation (prefix and suffix) em inglês
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Ano: 2025
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FURB
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SED-SC
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FURB - 2025 - SED-SC - Professor - Segunda Língua Estrangeira Inglês - Edital nº 3.021 |
Q3810834
Inglês
Read the excerpt below from the 2022 book Our wives
under the sea , by Julia Armfield:
"She is a good friend, in as much as she is a present friend, or at least a friend who likes to make plans. And yet too often I find myself stopped by unwillingness to admit to basic frustrations, to look at her across a coffee shop table and respond to her humdrum admissions with a straight me too."
Which word from the excerpt has a suffix?
"She is a good friend, in as much as she is a present friend, or at least a friend who likes to make plans. And yet too often I find myself stopped by unwillingness to admit to basic frustrations, to look at her across a coffee shop table and respond to her humdrum admissions with a straight me too."
Which word from the excerpt has a suffix?
Ano: 2025
Banca:
IGEDUC
Órgão:
Prefeitura de São José do Seridó - RN
Prova:
IGEDUC - 2025 - Prefeitura de São José do Seridó - RN - Professor de Língua Inglesa |
Q3794574
Inglês
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O texto seguinte servirá de base para responder às
questão.
Italians
The peak period of Italian immigration to the United
States occurred between 1880 and 1921, when
approximately 4.2 million Italians came to America. The
vast majority of these immigrants, about 80 percent,
hailed from the Mezzogiorno in southern Italy, a region in
the midst of great tumult and hardship. Having only been
officially unified in 1860, political tension between the
government in the north and the rural peasants in the
south increased in the 1870s, when the government
placed an onerous tax on wheat and salt, which were
necessities for southern farmers and fishermen. In the
1880s, disease ravaged both staple and cash crops;
malaria and other epidemics also devastated southern
Italy during this period. Additionally, a series of
earthquakes and the eruptions of Mount Etna and Mount
Vesuvius in the early 1900s destroyed cities and killed
tens of thousands of people.
Conditions in the United States during this era appeared
to be very favorable to many in southern Italy. Wages for
both skilled and unskilled laborers in the industrialized US
could be three times greater than wages for the same
work in the depressed Italian economy. Even illiterate day
laborers could find better paying jobs with better working
conditions in cities like Boston. In the late nineteenth
century, Italian immigrants were often referred to as
"birds of passage"−young men who migrated alone,
earning money to buy land and support their families at
home and eventually returning to Italy. After World War I,
however, immigration patterns changed and more Italian
immigrants began to bring their families over and put
down permanent roots in the region.
Patterns of Settlement
Boston's North End neighborhood became the locus of
Italian settlement in eastern New England. Once the
home of English colonists and revolutionaries like Paul
Revere, Irish and Jewish immigrants settled in the North
End before the wave of Italian immigration in the late
1800s. By the early 20th century, the North End was
densely filled with tenements, in which tens of thousands
of Italians lived. Much of the appeal of the North End for
immigrant groups was its proximity to work opportunities
on the waterfront and in downtown Boston. By 1920, over
50 percent of Italian immigrants in Boston lived in the
North End. Those who could afford more spacious
dwellings moved across the harbor to East Boston, which
by the mid-twentieth century became the city's largest
Italian-American community. Others moved to nearby
suburbs such as Somerville, Revere and Saugus,
especially after World War II. But even as immigrants and
their children moved to these areas, many Italian small
businesses and restaurants remained in the North End, and it is still an important center of Italian culture in New
England.
Workforce Participation
Most Italian immigrants in the late nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries worked menial, unskilled jobs upon
their arrival in Boston, as day laborers, dockworkers, or
fruit sellers. Others opened shops and small businesses,
and some skilled workers (like tailors) found
higher-paying jobs. In neighborhoods like the North End
and East Boston, immigrants operated Italian restaurants
that attracted a growing clientele from across the city. For
the earlier "birds of passage," though, assimilating into
the wider American culture was not a priority; for more
permanent Italian settlers, cultural obstacles such as the
language barrier and lower levels of education made
upward mobility difficult. Within a few generations,
however, Italian Americans in Boston became better
educated and were able to move into middle-class and
professional occupations, including some of the highest
echelons of business and politics.
https://globalboston.bc.edu/index.php/home/ethnic-groups/italians/
The word industrialized in "industrialized US" derives
from the noun industry and expresses a process of
transformation. Which of the following options correctly
mirrors this morphological pattern?
Ano: 2025
Banca:
IGEDUC
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Craíbas - AL
Prova:
IGEDUC - 2025 - Prefeitura de Craíbas - AL - Professor de Inglês |
Q3790087
Inglês
Derivational morphology allows for the creation of new
lexemes through affixes, often altering the grammatical
category or the semantic meaning of the base word.
Analyze the following morphological constructions
regarding their semantic and grammatical correctness:
I. The prefix "un-" in "undo" indicates reversal of an action, whereas in "unhappy" it indicates simple negation.
II. The suffix "-en" in words like "widen" and "shorten" functions to convert adjectives into verbs (causative meaning).
III. The prefix "mis-" in "misunderstand" adds a pejorative meaning or indicates an action done incorrectly.
It is correct what is stated
I. The prefix "un-" in "undo" indicates reversal of an action, whereas in "unhappy" it indicates simple negation.
II. The suffix "-en" in words like "widen" and "shorten" functions to convert adjectives into verbs (causative meaning).
III. The prefix "mis-" in "misunderstand" adds a pejorative meaning or indicates an action done incorrectly.
It is correct what is stated
Q3785477
Inglês
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Space power: The dream of beaming solar energy from orbit
(Available at: www.bbc.com/future/article/20251029-the-beam-dream-should-we-build-solar-farms-in-space –
text specially adapted for this test).
Analyse the statements below according to the vocabulary used in the text, and
mark T, if true, or F, if false.
( ) The word “feasible” (l. 28) could be replaced by “achievable” without changing the meaning.
( ) The prefix un– in “uncertain” (l. 38) and “unrealistic” (l. 17) indicates reversal of action, similar to the verb “undo”.
( ) The word “viable” (l. 32) refers to something that can function successfully.
( ) The term “renewable” (l. 14) is formed by the addition of the prefix re- and the suffix -able, which mean, respectively, “not” and “capability/possibility”.
The correct order of filling in the parentheses, from top to bottom, is:
( ) The word “feasible” (l. 28) could be replaced by “achievable” without changing the meaning.
( ) The prefix un– in “uncertain” (l. 38) and “unrealistic” (l. 17) indicates reversal of action, similar to the verb “undo”.
( ) The word “viable” (l. 32) refers to something that can function successfully.
( ) The term “renewable” (l. 14) is formed by the addition of the prefix re- and the suffix -able, which mean, respectively, “not” and “capability/possibility”.
The correct order of filling in the parentheses, from top to bottom, is:
Ano: 2025
Banca:
AMEOSC
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Bandeirante - SC
Prova:
AMEOSC - 2025 - Prefeitura de Bandeirante - SC - Professor de Inglês - PSS |
Q3784570
Inglês
Morphology is the study of word formation. In English,
suffixes are often added to words to change their class.
In the word "Teacher", the suffix "-er" indicates:
Q3781819
Inglês
Texto associado
Space power: The dream of beaming solar energy from orbit
(Available at: www.bbc.com/future/article/20251029-the-beam-dream-should-we-build-solar-farms-in-space–
text specially adapted for this test).
Analyse the statements below according to the vocabulary used in the text, and
mark T, if true, or F, if false.
( )The word “feasible” (l. 28) could be replaced by “achievable” without changing the meaning.
( ) The prefix un– in “uncertain” (l. 38) and “unrealistic” (l. 17) indicates reversal of action, similar to the verb “undo”.
( ) The word “viable” (l. 32) refers to something that can function successfully.
( ) The term “renewable” (l. 14) is formed by the addition of the prefix re- and the suffix -able, which mean, respectively, “not” and “capability/possibility”.
The correct order of filling in the parentheses, from top to bottom, is:
( )The word “feasible” (l. 28) could be replaced by “achievable” without changing the meaning.
( ) The prefix un– in “uncertain” (l. 38) and “unrealistic” (l. 17) indicates reversal of action, similar to the verb “undo”.
( ) The word “viable” (l. 32) refers to something that can function successfully.
( ) The term “renewable” (l. 14) is formed by the addition of the prefix re- and the suffix -able, which mean, respectively, “not” and “capability/possibility”.
The correct order of filling in the parentheses, from top to bottom, is:
Ano: 2025
Banca:
AMEOSC
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Palma Sola - SC
Prova:
AMEOSC - 2025 - Prefeitura de Palma Sola - SC - Professor de Inglês - Edital nº 12 |
Q3773448
Inglês
Word formation processes, such as affixation, allow for
the expansion of vocabulary and the alteration of word
classes. Select the alternative that correctly identifies the
morphological process and the grammatical change in
the word "happiness".
Ano: 2025
Banca:
IDESG
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Alto Rio Novo - ES
Prova:
IDESG - 2025 - Prefeitura de Alto Rio Novo - ES - PEB-II - Professor de Língua Estrangeira Moderna - Inglês |
Q3771574
Inglês
Choose the option that best completes the sentence with an appropriate prefixed word.
The audit revealed repeated cases of ____ of essays into the wrong band.
The audit revealed repeated cases of ____ of essays into the wrong band.
Ano: 2025
Banca:
Instituto Access
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Navegantes - SC
Prova:
Instituto Access - 2025 - Prefeitura de Navegantes - SC - Professor de Inglês |
Q3764847
Inglês
Considering English morphology and word-formation
processes, analyze the word "dissatisfaction".
Select the alternative that correctly analyzes the morphological structure and formation of this word.
Select the alternative that correctly analyzes the morphological structure and formation of this word.
Ano: 2025
Banca:
Quadrix
Órgão:
SEDF
Prova:
Quadrix - 2025 - SEDF - Professor de Educação Básica: Lem/Inglês |
Q3763500
Inglês
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During a postgraduate seminar on English morphology,
a student submitted the following sentence in an
essay: “The unprecedented misinterpretation of the
government’s counterproductive policies illustrates
how overgeneralizations can destabilize socio‑political
frameworks.”. The trainee teachers disagreed on how to
analyze the morphological complexity of the highlighted
words and their pedagogical treatment in advanced
EFL contexts.
About the situation above and considering the
morphological aspects of the English language, judge the
following items.
The word overgeneralizations combines
prefixation (over‑), suffixation (‑ation and plural
‑s), exemplifying a chain of both derivational and
inflectional morphology.
Ano: 2025
Banca:
Quadrix
Órgão:
SEDF
Prova:
Quadrix - 2025 - SEDF - Professor de Educação Básica: Lem/Inglês |
Q3763498
Inglês
Texto associado
During a postgraduate seminar on English morphology,
a student submitted the following sentence in an
essay: “The unprecedented misinterpretation of the
government’s counterproductive policies illustrates
how overgeneralizations can destabilize socio‑political
frameworks.”. The trainee teachers disagreed on how to
analyze the morphological complexity of the highlighted
words and their pedagogical treatment in advanced
EFL contexts.
About the situation above and considering the
morphological aspects of the English language, judge the
following items.
The word counterproductive exemplifies compounding
rather than prefixation.
Ano: 2025
Banca:
Quadrix
Órgão:
SEDF
Prova:
Quadrix - 2025 - SEDF - Professor de Educação Básica: Lem/Inglês |
Q3763497
Inglês
Texto associado
During a postgraduate seminar on English morphology,
a student submitted the following sentence in an
essay: “The unprecedented misinterpretation of the
government’s counterproductive policies illustrates
how overgeneralizations can destabilize socio‑political
frameworks.”. The trainee teachers disagreed on how to
analyze the morphological complexity of the highlighted
words and their pedagogical treatment in advanced
EFL contexts.
About the situation above and considering the
morphological aspects of the English language, judge the
following items.
The word misinterpretation illustrates two derivational
processes: prefixation (mis‑) and suffixation (‑ation).
Ano: 2025
Banca:
Quadrix
Órgão:
SEDF
Prova:
Quadrix - 2025 - SEDF - Professor de Educação Básica: Lem/Inglês |
Q3763496
Inglês
Texto associado
During a postgraduate seminar on English morphology,
a student submitted the following sentence in an
essay: “The unprecedented misinterpretation of the
government’s counterproductive policies illustrates
how overgeneralizations can destabilize socio‑political
frameworks.”. The trainee teachers disagreed on how to
analyze the morphological complexity of the highlighted
words and their pedagogical treatment in advanced
EFL contexts.
About the situation above and considering the
morphological aspects of the English language, judge the
following items.
The word unprecedented is formed through
prefixation (un‑), root (precede), and the
suffix ‑ed, showing both derivational and
inflectional morphology
Ano: 2025
Banca:
FUNDATEC
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Venâncio Aires - RS
Prova:
FUNDATEC - 2025 - Prefeitura de Venâncio Aires - RS - Professor de Língua Inglesa |
Q3762120
Inglês
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A One-Man Recycling Revolution on The Cornish Coast
By Rupert Neate
(Available at: www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/16/fishing-nets-money-a-one-man-recyclingrevolution-on-the-cornish-coast – text specially adapted for this test).
Mark the INCORRECT statement about the highlighted word “profitable” (l. 34).
Ano: 2025
Banca:
Ápice Consultoria
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Boqueirão - PB
Prova:
Ápice Consultoria - 2025 - Prefeitura de Boqueirão - PB - Professor de Educação Básica II - Inglês |
Q3758793
Inglês
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Leia o texto abaixo para responder da questão.
New Study: This Regional Accent Is Considered
the Most Trustworthy in the U.S.—And the
Results Will Really Surprise You!
By Jennifer Geddes
A person’s cadence counts for a lot.
Everyone knows first impressions are important—
and we don’t just make them based on sight. Beyond
a chic outfit and well-coiffed hair, how a person
sounds can also be a big factor when forming an
initial opinion. In fact, a recent analysis of more than a
dozen American accents conducted by BetUS Casino
found that some folks’ speech actually conveys more
honesty and reliability than others’.
At this point, you’re probably praying your own voice
sounds dependable, not shifty or shady, right? Try to
relax, and then read on to learn (nay, hear!) where
the most trustworthy accents are located.
How was the study conducted?
As with many studies today, internet data helped
determine which parts of the country sound the most
steadfast and true. BetUS Casino crafted the report,
which is current as of Aug. 15, 2025, by focusing on
how people feel about 14 different regional accents.
How did the company determine those feelings?
First, researchers looked at internet search terms like
“friendly (accent)” or “professional (accent).” Then,
to complete the rankings, they compiled data on the
rate of financial crimes per 10,000 people, plus the
number of lawyers and primary-care doctors in each
area.
Why doctors and lawyers, you may ask? Well, these
are professions that rely on trust—after all, you might
have to put your life in their hands! The more of these
professionals in an area, the more trustworthy the
accent. Once the study authors had the information
in hand, they weighted the data and ranked the
regions on a scale of 1–100.
Which regional accent is considered the most
trustworthy?
Now hear this: The regional accent that’s considered
to be the most trustworthy hails from Boston!
Yup, the fine citizens of Beantown scored 56.1, which
was enough to take top honors for sounding highly
dependable. Boston ranks so strongly thanks to
more than 23,300 searches related to how kind and
upstanding the accent sounds. The Massachusetts
capital and largest city in New England also sports
a low level of financial crime and is home to tens of
thousands of lawyers and doctors.
Boston shines in other ways too, underlining the trust
factor essential to its distinctive accent. For example,
one recent WalletHub report list Boston as the third
most caring city in the nation, while another names
Massachusetts as the best U.S. state to live in. And
the Bay State has excellent health care, with the
highest childhood vaccination rates, lowest infant
mortality and fewest premature avoidable deaths.
Want to sound just like a Bostonian? Start by
dropping some of your R’s, as in “pahk the cah” and
“wicked smaht.” Or listen to Ben Affleck turn on the
telltale accent in his Dunkin’ commercials. Other
famous Bostonians with perfect inflection include
Matt Damon, Mark Wahlberg and Amy Poehler.
In: https://www.rd.com/article/happiest-cities-america-2025/
A palavra dependable, usada no trecho “your
own voice sounds dependable,” contém qual
combinação correta de radical + sufixo/prefixo?
Ano: 2025
Banca:
FACET Concursos
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Monteiro - PB
Prova:
FACET Concursos - 2025 - Prefeitura de Monteiro - PB - Professor de Educação Fundamental 2 - Língua Inglesa |
Q3758291
Inglês
English morphology balances relatively poor
inflection with rich derivation and compounding.
Affixation (e.g., un-, re-, -ness, -ize) supports lexical
productivity, while conversion (zero-derivation) enables
category shift (“to google a term”). Morphological
transparency affects processing speed and acquisition
(cf. Bauer & Lieber). In pedagogy, word families and
morphological strategies (cf. Nation) outcompete rote
lists for durable vocabulary growth. Choose the correct
option.
Ano: 2025
Banca:
CEV-URCA
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Mauriti - CE
Prova:
CEV-URCA - 2025 - Prefeitura de Mauriti - CE - Professor de Letras - Inglês |
Q3750955
Inglês
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Text 2 – The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Picture of Dorian Gray, moral fantasy novel by Irish writer Oscar Wilde, published in an early form in Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine in 1890. The novel, the only one written by Wilde, had six additional chapters when it was released as a book in 1891. An archetypal tale of a young man who purchases eternal youth at the expense of his soul, the work is a romantic exposition of Wilde’s own Aestheticism.
The story begins in the art studio of Basil Hallward, who is discussing a current painting with his witty and amoral friend Lord Henry Wotton. Henry thinks that the painting, a portrait of an extraordinarily beautiful young man, should be displayed, but Basil disagrees, fearing that his obsession with the portrait’s subject, Dorian Gray, can be seen in the work. Dorian then arrives, and he is fascinated as Henry explains his belief that one should live life to the fullest by indulging one’s impulses. Henry also points out that beauty and youth are fleeting, and Dorian declares that he would give his soul if the portrait were to grow old and wrinkled while he remained young and handsome. Basil gives the painting to Dorian.
From: https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Picture-of-Dorian-Gray-novel-by-Wilde. Accessed on 10/15/2025
When teaching the process of word formation and the allophonic variations of the inflectional suffix -s in the third person singular of verbs in the simple present tense, the teacher may employ the excerpt from The Picture of Dorian Gray, in which the allophone [s] is illustrated in:
Ano: 2025
Banca:
CEV-URCA
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Mauriti - CE
Prova:
CEV-URCA - 2025 - Prefeitura de Mauriti - CE - Professor de Letras - Inglês |
Q3750954
Inglês
Texto associado
Text 1– The Black Cat (Edgar Allan Poe)
Pluto– this was the cat’s name– was my favorite pet and
playmate. I alone Blank I him, and he attended me wherever I
went about the house. It was even with difficulty that I could
prevent him from following me through the streets.
Our friendship lasted, in this manner, for several years, during which my general temperament and character– through the
instrumentality of the Fiend Intemperance– had (I blush to confess it) experienced a radical alteration for the worse. I Blank II,
day by day, more moody, more irritable, more regardless of the
feelings of others. I suffered myself to use intemperate language
to my wife. At length, I even offered her personal violence. My
pets, of course, were made to feel the change in my disposition.
I not only neglected, but ill-used them. For Pluto, however, I still
retained sufficient regard to restrain me from maltreating him, as
I made no scruple of maltreating the rabbits, the monkey, or even
the dog, when by accident, or through affection, they came in my
way. But my disease grew upon me– for what disease is like
Alcohol!– and at length even Pluto, who was now becoming
old, and consequently somewhat peevish– even Pluto Blank III
to experience the effects of my ill temper.
From: https://poestories.com/read/blackcat. Accessed on 10/15/2025
Regarding the process of word formation, it can be stated that:
I. Playmate is an example of a compound word formed by combining the words “play” and “mate”.
II. Inflection occurs when a suffix is added to a word without changing its grammatical class as in becoming (...Pluto, was now becoming old...).
III. Derivation occurs when affixes are added to a word to change its meaning and, in some cases, its grammatical class.
Ano: 2025
Banca:
CEV-URCA
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Mauriti - CE
Prova:
CEV-URCA - 2025 - Prefeitura de Mauriti - CE - Professor de Letras - Inglês |
Q3750952
Inglês
Texto associado
Text 1– The Black Cat (Edgar Allan Poe)
Pluto– this was the cat’s name– was my favorite pet and
playmate. I alone Blank I him, and he attended me wherever I
went about the house. It was even with difficulty that I could
prevent him from following me through the streets.
Our friendship lasted, in this manner, for several years, during which my general temperament and character– through the
instrumentality of the Fiend Intemperance– had (I blush to confess it) experienced a radical alteration for the worse. I Blank II,
day by day, more moody, more irritable, more regardless of the
feelings of others. I suffered myself to use intemperate language
to my wife. At length, I even offered her personal violence. My
pets, of course, were made to feel the change in my disposition.
I not only neglected, but ill-used them. For Pluto, however, I still
retained sufficient regard to restrain me from maltreating him, as
I made no scruple of maltreating the rabbits, the monkey, or even
the dog, when by accident, or through affection, they came in my
way. But my disease grew upon me– for what disease is like
Alcohol!– and at length even Pluto, who was now becoming
old, and consequently somewhat peevish– even Pluto Blank III
to experience the effects of my ill temper.
From: https://poestories.com/read/blackcat. Accessed on 10/15/2025
As in difficulty, the suffix -y turns an adjective into a noun in:
Ano: 2025
Banca:
OBJETIVA
Órgão:
Prefeitura de São José do Ouro - RS
Prova:
OBJETIVA - 2025 - Prefeitura de São José do Ouro - RS - Professor – Português-Habilitação Língua Inglesa |
Q3747836
Inglês
Which part of the word "misunderstanding" is a prefix?
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