Questões de Concurso
Sobre preposições | prepositions em inglês
Foram encontradas 638 questões
Judge the statements below as True (T) or False (F).
(__) In "The children go to school every morning", zero article before school can indicate participation in its institutional function rather than reference to a particular building.
(__) In "The parents went to the school to meet the principal", the definite article is necessarily incorrect because institutional nouns cannot be preceded by the.
(__) The expression despite the delay is standard, whereas despite of the delay is not the usual standard construction.
(__) In standard written English, although can introduce a concessive clause without requiring but to connect the following main clause.
The CORRECT sequence, from top to bottom, is:
Leia os textos para responder à questão.
Text 1
A number of researchers have studied conversations between speakers of English as a Lingua Franca (EFL) and have noted a number of surprising lexico-grammatical characteristics, including:
• Increasing of redundancy by adding “inexistent” prepositions (We have to study about...).
• Pluralisation of nouns which are considered uncountable in native-speaker English (informations, staffs).
• Interchangeable use of the relative pronouns who and which (a book who, a boy which).
• Omission of articles where they are mandatory in nativespeaker English.
The evidence suggests that non-native speakers are not conforming to a native English standard. Truly, they seem to get along perfectly well despite the fact that they miss things out and put things in which ‘they should not do’.
(HARMER, J. The practice of English language teaching. 4th ed, Essex: Pearson Longman. Adaptado)
Text 2
Teaching and learning English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) is probably the most radical and controversial approach to emerge in recent years.
Proponents of ELF have already given some indications of how they think conventional approaches to English as a Foreign Language (EFL) should be changed. Jenkins (2000), for example, argues for different priorities in teaching English pronunciation. Teaching certain pronunciation features (which do not cause intelligibility problems), such as the articulation of ‘th’ as an interdental fricative, appears to be a waste of time whereas other common pronunciation problems (such as simplifying consonant clusters) contribute to problems of understanding.
(GRADOLL, H. English Next. UK: British Council, 2006. Adaptado)
Mark the prepositon that fills in the gap of the sentence below:
The football game had to be postponed _______ weather conditions.
The following text is reference to question.
A professional cornhole player who is a quadruple amputee has been arrested in connection with a fatal shooting
Dayton Webber, 27, is accused of killing a man in the front seat of his car during an argument on Sunday in his hometown of La Plata, Md. – about 30 miles south of Washington, D.C. – according to the Charles County Sheriff’s Office.
The sheriff’s office said in a press release that passengers in the backseat saw Webber shoot Bradrick Michael Wells, also 27, before he pulled over and asked them “to help pull the victim out of the car”. They refused and left, at which point Webber “fled with the victim still in the car.” All of the passengers knew each other, authorities said.
Nearly two hours later, a resident _______ Charlotte Hall, Md., about 14 miles away, called the police to report “a body _______ a yard,” the sheriff’s office said. Responders identified Wells and pronounced him dead _______ the scene.
Available in: https://www.npr.org.
1. The word willingness is formed by adding the noun-forming suffix -ness to the adjective willing. (last paragraph Text 2)
2. The word However (first paragraph) can be classified as a connector used to joins two or more ideas together.
3. The affirmative form of the underlined words in the sentence Meaning does not reside solely in the words printed on the page…, is Meaning reside solely in the words printed on the page…
4. There are three missing prepositions in the fourth paragraph. They are, respectively, by, to, and of.
5. In the first paragraph, the following words in the second line far more sophisticated, is an example of a modified superlative form.
Choose the alternative which presents the correct sequence, from top to bottom:
Choose the alternative which contains the correct prepositions to complete the paragraph.
Leia o texto a seguir:
How Teachers Feel About Adapting Instruction for Students
With Disabilities
School leadership and teaching experience strongly infl uence educators’ confi dence in their ability to adapt instruction for students with disabilities, according to a new survey. But most teachers, regardless of tenure, don’t feel prepared to diff erentiate lessons.
General education teachers were markedly less likely to feel confi dent in their ability to diff erentiate instruction than special educators. This confi dence gap exists despite most students with learning disabilities spending the majority of their school day in general education classrooms, according to a new nationally representative survey of 1,654 general and special educators by the National Center for Learning Disabilities and West Ed.
The State of Learning Disabilities survey explored educators’ confi dence in adapting instruction and the school-level factors that shape that confi dence.
Less than half of all general educators (42%) felt completely confi dent in their ability to adapt instruction for students with learning disabilities. That number drops to 17% for novice teachers with fewer than three years of experience, compared with 60% of novice special education teachers who felt completely confi dent in their abilities.
Fonte: Revista Education Week. Disponível em: https://www.edweek.org/ teaching-learning/how-teachers-feel-about-adapting-instruction-for-students-with-disabilities/2026/08. Excerto Adaptado. Acesso em: 25 de agosto de 2026.
Observe o fragmento abaixo:
“But most teachers, regardless of tenure, don’t feel prepared to diff erentiate lessons.” (1º parágrafo).
Os termos destacados são classificados, respectivamente, como:
Leia o texto a seguir.
The world cup debutants determined to prove nothing is impossible
When the 2026 FIFA World Cup kicks off on June 11 in Mexico City, it will set in motion a flurry of historic firsts.
A newly expanded 48-team tournament, three countries: the US, Canada and Mexico as hosts and we’ll also get to see four debutants in the shape of Curaçao, Jordan, Uzbekistan and Cape Verde.
It was in October of last year that Cape Verde, the African archipelago nation — with a population of just over half a million people — qualified for its first ever World Cup after beating Eswatini 3-0 to become the third-smallest country after Curaçao and Iceland eight years ago to make it through to football’s biggest stage.
It was a feat made even more impressive by the fact the Blue Sharks ended up four points ahead of traditional continental powerhouse Cameroon, topping their Confederation of African Football qualifying group in the process.
It’s no wonder the team’s head coach Pedro Leitão Brito — better known as Bubista — was beaming with pride when he dropped by the CNN studios in Atlanta recently as part of a visit to Mercedes-Benz stadium, where Cape Verde will begin their World Cup campaign on June 15 against the 2010 winners and reigning European champions, Spain.
“We are so excited. I think the people are so excited and we’re going to do our best for our people,” Bubista — a distinguished former captain and defender on the national team — told CNN Sports.
Bubista oversaw a truly history-making qualifying campaign. A sequence of results that included a highly impressive five straight wins, the highlight of which featured a never-to-be-forgotten 1-0 triumph over the Cameroonians in September 2025.
But it’s October 13, 2025, that will be indelibly etched into the memory of all who witnessed Cape Verde’s historic win against Eswatini. A victory that would spark frenzied celebrations of joy in the country’s capital city Praia.
“Our people are so excited and so happy. Our people in the world, it’s just so great for our qualification and now our people are so grateful for everything,” Bubista added.
Cape Verde may be about to play in a first ever World Cup, but the national team is no stranger to success when it comes to competing in the Africa Cup of Nations having reached the quarterfinals in 2013 and then again, a decade later. Bubista oversaw the latter campaign but now the head coach’s focus is fully on his team’s tournament opener against Spain.
“We know it’s a very difficult match … They have very good players. We will respect them but anything is possible. We’re going to do our best to show the world what we can do in football,” Bubista reflected.
“We know it’s a hard game, but we have our heart and team spirit and this is important for us. Our unity is our strength,” he added.
The Blue Sharks will arrive in the US with a talented squad including Villarreal’s Logan Costa, Paris Saint-Germain 18-year-old Fabio Domingos and 36-year-old Ryan Mendes, who is the country’s most-capped player — with more than 90 appearances for the national team — and is Cape Verde’s all-time leading goalscorer.
And then there’s the remarkable story of the Shamrock Rovers forward Roberto “Pico” Lopes who was born in Ireland, but when it comes to international football, represents Cape Verde, currently ranked 69th in the world.
Lopes had always wanted to play for Ireland but when that didn’t materialize, he ended up playing for his father’shomeland after famously being recruited through a LinkedIn message from then-team head coach Rui Águas. Initially Lopes ignored the first message sent in Portuguese as spam but not the second one sent a few months later in English.
Fonte: https://edition.cnn.com/sport/cape-verde-world-cup-debutants-nothing-isimpossible-spc. Excerto. Acessado em: 07/06/2026.
Leia o texto a seguir.
The world cup debutants determined to prove nothing is impossible
When the 2026 FIFA World Cup kicks off on June 11 in Mexico City, it will set in motion a flurry of historic firsts.
A newly expanded 48-team tournament, three countries: the US, Canada and Mexico as hosts and we’ll also get to see four debutants in the shape of Curaçao, Jordan, Uzbekistan and Cape Verde.
It was in October of last year that Cape Verde, the African archipelago nation — with a population of just over half a million people — qualified for its first ever World Cup after beating Eswatini 3-0 to become the third-smallest country after Curaçao and Iceland eight years ago to make it through to football’s biggest stage.
It was a feat made even more impressive by the fact the Blue Sharks ended up four points ahead of traditional continental powerhouse Cameroon, topping their Confederation of African Football qualifying group in the process.
It’s no wonder the team’s head coach Pedro Leitão Brito — better known as Bubista — was beaming with pride when he dropped by the CNN studios in Atlanta recently as part of a visit to Mercedes-Benz stadium, where Cape Verde will begin their World Cup campaign on June 15 against the 2010 winners and reigning European champions, Spain.
“We are so excited. I think the people are so excited and we’re going to do our best for our people,” Bubista — a distinguished former captain and defender on the national team — told CNN Sports.
Bubista oversaw a truly history-making qualifying campaign. A sequence of results that included a highly impressive five straight wins, the highlight of which featured a never-to-be-forgotten 1-0 triumph over the Cameroonians in September 2025.
But it’s October 13, 2025, that will be indelibly etched into the memory of all who witnessed Cape Verde’s historic win against Eswatini. A victory that would spark frenzied celebrations of joy in the country’s capital city Praia.
“Our people are so excited and so happy. Our people in the world, it’s just so great for our qualification and now our people are so grateful for everything,” Bubista added.
Cape Verde may be about to play in a first ever World Cup, but the national team is no stranger to success when it comes to competing in the Africa Cup of Nations having reached the quarterfinals in 2013 and then again, a decade later. Bubista oversaw the latter campaign but now the head coach’s focus is fully on his team’s tournament opener against Spain.
“We know it’s a very difficult match … They have very good players. We will respect them but anything is possible. We’re going to do our best to show the world what we can do in football,” Bubista reflected.
“We know it’s a hard game, but we have our heart and team spirit and this is important for us. Our unity is our strength,” he added.
The Blue Sharks will arrive in the US with a talented squad including Villarreal’s Logan Costa, Paris Saint-Germain 18-year-old Fabio Domingos and 36-year-old Ryan Mendes, who is the country’s most-capped player — with more than 90 appearances for the national team — and is Cape Verde’s all-time leading goalscorer.
And then there’s the remarkable story of the Shamrock Rovers forward Roberto “Pico” Lopes who was born in Ireland, but when it comes to international football, represents Cape Verde, currently ranked 69th in the world.
Lopes had always wanted to play for Ireland but when that didn’t materialize, he ended up playing for his father’shomeland after famously being recruited through a LinkedIn message from then-team head coach Rui Águas. Initially Lopes ignored the first message sent in Portuguese as spam but not the second one sent a few months later in English.
Fonte: https://edition.cnn.com/sport/cape-verde-world-cup-debutants-nothing-isimpossible-spc. Excerto. Acessado em: 07/06/2026.
Para responder à questão, leia o texto abaixo.
How Will You Get from How Things Are to How Things "Should" Be?
A lot of people get fixated on things that they think "should" happen, but fail to address substantial obstacles in the way. I may even agree with them about what I think "should" happen. But that doesn't mean that it's going to happen. If you're thinking that there is also a danger in being overly cautious or waiting to work out the perfect plan, you're right. That can become a form of procrastination. Acting on an imperfect plan is usually better than waiting until you've worked out every last detail. But at least have some kind of plan that doesn't require a miracle to happen.
The plan that works will also probably not be the plan you started with. You will have to update the plan as you proceed and the situation evolves.
A good model for this process is John Boyd's OODA decision making loop. OODA stands for Observe, Orient, Decide, Act. Actions produce responses that provide new information. New information requires reorientation and new decisions will have to be made that lead to new actions, and the loop repeats.
No big changes happened because a bunch of people sat around complaining about how things "should be."
That's like saying "l should be a millionaire." You could be, but you're going to need some kind of plan to get there that realistically acknowledges the obstacles in your way.
Many of the problems we face today took years to create.
We have inherited a big mess. A lot of things happened that "should not" have happened. Mistakes were made.
But that's life. It's going to throw all kinds of things at you that are sub-optimal. Things you didn't "deserve" or ask for. Cleaning up messes you didn't create is as normal as dealing with bad weather.
Some messes only require a dustpan.
But if you want to clean up a really big mess, you're going to need a plan.
Fonte: https://mrjackdonovan.substack.com/p/the-flow-chart
Analyze the sentence below:
Instead of waiting _________ the perfect strategy you should act ________ an imperíect one and reorient based ________ the results.
Which combination CORRECTLY completes the following summary of the author's advice?
I. In "a royal patent," the indefinite article introduces a singular countable noun that has not yet been specified in that clause.
II. In "the fundamental principles of the science of music," the definite article identifies principles presented as a particular conceptual set.
III. In "remarkably well," the word "well" functions as an adjective modifying the noun "gamification."
IV. In "priced originally at seven guineas," the preposition "at" introduces the amount established as the original price.
Mark each statement as true (T) or false (F), and then select the alternative that presents the CORRECT sequence.
The Evolution of Digital Design
By Coursera Staff
(Available at: https://www.coursera.org/articles/skeuomorphism – text specially adapted for this test).
"The annual shareholders' meeting is always held _______ the morning, so that international participants can join before their working day ends."
Considerando-se o uso adequado das preposições em Língua Inglesa, indique a alternativa correta.
Complete the sentence with the correct preposition.
The conference will take place Monday.
Choose the correct option:
She lives ___ New York.
Conheça nossos planos