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Comentadas sobre preposições | prepositions em inglês
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Ano: 2026
Banca:
ACCESS
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Campos Gerais - MG
Prova:
ACCESS - 2026 - Prefeitura de Campos Gerais - MG - Professor de Educação Básica – Regente de Aulas/Língua Inglesa |
Q3819001
Inglês
Dependent prepositions often pose significant challenges
for advanced learners as they do not always follow a
logical spatial paradigm. In the context of the sentence
"His views are completely at variance ___ the established
facts, yet he remains oblivious ___ the evidence," identify
the pair of prepositions that correctly completes the
collocations.
Ano: 2026
Banca:
Avança SP
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Caçapava - SP
Prova:
Avança SP - 2026 - Prefeitura de Caçapava - SP - Professor II (PII) - Inglês |
Q3818247
Inglês
Choose the alternative that correctly completes the sentence below.
“I’ve got an appointment next week. It’s ______ 10:45 ________ Thursday morning.
Ano: 2025
Banca:
UNIVALI
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Luiz Alves - SC
Prova:
UNIVALI - 2025 - Prefeitura de Luiz Alves - SC - Professor de Língua Inglesa - Edital nº 12 |
Q4034373
Inglês
Texto associado
Digital archeology
The City Gallery presents Filip Popov with his exhibition
"Digital Archeology"
With a large exhibition, including works from his most
famous cycles, the visual artist Filip Popov will exhibit in
the Hall "2019" at 32 Gladstone Street from March 2 to
31.
For the first time the artist makes such a large-scale
performance in the city where he was born.
The opening will be on March 2 from 17:00 to 19:30.
The topics that excite the author of the exhibition "Digital
Archeology" can be deciphered in the titles of the series
of works created over the past 8 years: TransOrganic,
Para Bellum, Order, Posthuman, Paleomatic Monologues
and Prayers to the latest series - Bunker City and Zero City. As Velizara Ivanova emphasizes in her analysis:
Combining works dating back to 2014, Digital Archeology
reflects Philip Popov's continuing focus on the
posthumanism and transhumanism, confronting
technology and our uncertain future and insight into the
way machines are woven into our tomorrow's world. "
Born in 1964 in Plovdiv, Filip Popov spent several years
of his childhood in Germany, where he formed his ideas
for unity between art, architecture, design and
technology. He studied art at the National Academy of
Arts in Sofia, moved to Basel to study at the
Kunstgewerbeschule, and later lived in Zurich.
He has had solo exhibitions at EASA, West Berlin (1988),
EKG, Wetzikon, CH (1993), Binz Foundation 39, Zurich
(1994), Kunsthalle Liesthal, CH (1996), ArtFront Gallery,
Tokyo (2005). It is presented in the most famous galleries
in Sofia and the country. In 2014 he participated in the
National Autumn Exhibitions in Plovdiv. Filip Popov
exhibits his works in numerous group exhibitions in
Bulgaria, Switzerland, Austria, France.
https://www.visitplovdiv.com/en/node/10577
Regarding the morphological and syntactic structures in
the text "Digital Archeology," judge the statements below.
I.The compound noun "posthumanism" in the phrase "Philip Popov's continuing focus on the posthumanism and transhumanism" exhibits derivational morphology through the prefix "post-" (meaning after/beyond) attached to the base "humanism," creating a philosophical term denoting ideology beyond traditional humanism, and this word formation process exemplifies productive morphological patterns in academic and philosophical English vocabulary.
II.The prepositional phrase "from 2014" in "Combining works dating back to 2014" functions as a temporal adjunct modifying the present participle "dating," and the phrasal verb "dating back to" is a three-word intransitive phrasal verb meaning to originate or have existed since a particular time, commonly used in historical and chronological contexts.
III.The relative clause "where he was born" in "the city where he was born" is a restrictive (defining) relative clause that specifies which city is being referenced, using the relative adverb "where" to indicate location, and this construction could be alternatively expressed as "in which he was born" with preposition fronting, though "where" is more natural and commonly preferred in spoken and written English.
The following statement(s) is/are CORRECT.
I.The compound noun "posthumanism" in the phrase "Philip Popov's continuing focus on the posthumanism and transhumanism" exhibits derivational morphology through the prefix "post-" (meaning after/beyond) attached to the base "humanism," creating a philosophical term denoting ideology beyond traditional humanism, and this word formation process exemplifies productive morphological patterns in academic and philosophical English vocabulary.
II.The prepositional phrase "from 2014" in "Combining works dating back to 2014" functions as a temporal adjunct modifying the present participle "dating," and the phrasal verb "dating back to" is a three-word intransitive phrasal verb meaning to originate or have existed since a particular time, commonly used in historical and chronological contexts.
III.The relative clause "where he was born" in "the city where he was born" is a restrictive (defining) relative clause that specifies which city is being referenced, using the relative adverb "where" to indicate location, and this construction could be alternatively expressed as "in which he was born" with preposition fronting, though "where" is more natural and commonly preferred in spoken and written English.
The following statement(s) is/are CORRECT.
Ano: 2025
Banca:
IDCAP
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Tremembé - SP
Prova:
IDCAP - 2025 - Prefeitura de Tremembé - SP - Professor de Educação Básica II - Ensino Fundamental - Inglês |
Q3895083
Inglês
A teacher asks a student: "When do you have your
English class?" Which answer correctly uses the
preposition to indicate the day of the week?
Ano: 2025
Banca:
IDCAP
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Tremembé - SP
Prova:
IDCAP - 2025 - Prefeitura de Tremembé - SP - Professor de Educação Básica II - Ensino Fundamental - Inglês |
Q3895082
Inglês
A student needs to describe the location of their book. If
the book is on the table, which sentence uses the correct
preposition?
Ano: 2025
Banca:
FURB
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Biguaçu - SC
Prova:
FURB - 2025 - Prefeitura de Biguaçu - SC - Professor III - Inglês |
Q3855957
Inglês
Choose the sentence in which the use of prepositions is
grammatically correct.
Ano: 2025
Banca:
Fundação CETREDE
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Icapuí - CE
Prova:
Fundação CETREDE - 2025 - Prefeitura de Icapuí - CE - Professor PEB II - EFAF - Linguagens e Códigos - Língua Inglesa |
Q3824379
Inglês
Choose the option that aligns with standard
prepositional collocations in academic registers:
Ano: 2025
Banca:
FURB
Órgão:
Prefeitura de São João Batista - SC
Prova:
FURB - 2025 - Prefeitura de São João Batista - SC - Professor Fundamental I 1ª/5ª - Inglês - Edital nº 2 |
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:
Ano: 2025
Banca:
Prefeitura de Bombinhas - SC
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Bombinhas - SC
Prova:
Prefeitura de Bombinhas - SC - 2025 - Prefeitura de Bombinhas - SC - Professor de Ensino Fundamental II - Inglês - Edital nº 6 |
Q3815054
Inglês
Complete the sentence below using the correct
prepositions:
Using English effectively means being aware of how language functions _______ different contexts, adapting your speech _______ the audience, choosing words appropriate ________ the situation, and being sensitive ________ cultural differences that may affect communication _________ international settings. Which option correctly fills in all the blanks?
Using English effectively means being aware of how language functions _______ different contexts, adapting your speech _______ the audience, choosing words appropriate ________ the situation, and being sensitive ________ cultural differences that may affect communication _________ international settings. Which option correctly fills in all the blanks?
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 |
Q3794577
Inglês
In academic and professional English, prepositions such
as in spite of, according to, and with regard to are
classified as complex prepositions, playing a crucial role
in written discourse cohesion. They often indicate
relationships of contrast, conformity, and reference.
Based on this understanding, which of the following
sentences uses a complex preposition correctly?
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 |
Q3794572
Inglês
Texto associado
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/
In "By the early 20th century, the North End was densely
filled with tenements, in which tens of thousands of
Italians lived," the prepositions by and in establish
temporal and spatial relations fundamental to textual
coherence. Within the framework of English grammar,
what specific semantic roles do these prepositions fulfill?
Ano: 2025
Banca:
FRONTE
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Santa Bárbara - MG
Prova:
FRONTE - 2025 - Prefeitura de Santa Bárbara - MG - PEB - Língua Inglesa - Edital nº 4 |
Q3791949
Inglês
Prepositions can be tricky because they
often depend on the adjective or verb that precedes them.
Choose the correct preposition to complete the sentence:
"The teacher was very proud __________ her students'
achievements."
Ano: 2025
Banca:
FUNATEC
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Piracuruca - PI
Prova:
FUNATEC - 2025 - Prefeitura de Piracuruca - PI - Professor de Língua inglesa |
Q3790625
Inglês
Assinale a alternativa em que a preposição responde
adequadamente às restrições lexicais do verbo:
Ano: 2025
Banca:
IGEDUC
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Craíbas - AL
Prova:
IGEDUC - 2025 - Prefeitura de Craíbas - AL - Professor de Inglês |
Q3790081
Inglês
Prepositions in English are notoriously difficult due to
their polysemous nature and their role in fixed
expressions or dependent relationships with verbs and
adjectives. Regarding the correct usage of dependent
prepositions in formal contexts, mark T, for true and F, for
false:
(__) The CEO was accused of embezzlement and had to comply with the regulations.
(__) The new software is superior to the old version, but it is not compatible with the hardware.
(__) She is responsible for the project and specializes on marketing strategies.
(__) We must prevent him from making a huge mistake.
After analysis, select the alternative that presents the correct sequence of the items above, from top to bottom:
(__) The CEO was accused of embezzlement and had to comply with the regulations.
(__) The new software is superior to the old version, but it is not compatible with the hardware.
(__) She is responsible for the project and specializes on marketing strategies.
(__) We must prevent him from making a huge mistake.
After analysis, select the alternative that presents the correct sequence of the items above, from top to bottom:
Ano: 2025
Banca:
FRONTE
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Pouso Redondo - SC
Prova:
FRONTE - 2025 - Prefeitura de Pouso Redondo - SC - Professor de Língua Inglesa - Não Habilitado |
Q3787168
Inglês
O uso correto das preposições IN, ON e
AT costuma gerar dúvidas, mas segue regras específicas.
Para dias da semana (ex: Monday, Friday), a preposição
correta a ser utilizada é:
"We have English classes _______ Tuesdays."
"We have English classes _______ Tuesdays."
Ano: 2025
Banca:
AMAUC
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Itá - SC
Prova:
AMAUC - 2025 - Prefeitura de Itá - SC - Professor de Inglês |
Q3774225
Inglês
Prepositions of place describe the position of an object
relative to another. Select the alternative that correctly
completes the sentence: "The picture is hanging _____
the wall."
Ano: 2025
Banca:
FEPESE
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Cunha Porã - SC
Prova:
FEPESE - 2025 - Prefeitura de Cunha Porã - SC - Professor de Inglês |
Q3768709
Inglês
Read the paragraph below:
‘George is the pet store, looking what kind of pet he might want to get for his birthday. George asked if he could have a horse, but his parents said no because horses are too big.’
Select the alternative that correctly completes the blanks in the sentence.
‘George is the pet store, looking what kind of pet he might want to get for his birthday. George asked if he could have a horse, but his parents said no because horses are too big.’
Select the alternative that correctly completes the blanks in the sentence.
Ano: 2025
Banca:
Instituto Access
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Navegantes - SC
Prova:
Instituto Access - 2025 - Prefeitura de Navegantes - SC - Professor de Inglês |
Q3764861
Inglês
In the sentence 'She placed the book on the shelf with great care', analyze the highlighted phrases and the assertions below:
I.'On the shelf' is a prepositional phrase functioning as an adverbial of place.
II.'With great care' is a prepositional phrase functioning as an adverbial of manner.
III.Both phrases could be syntactically replaced by single adverbs like 'there' and 'carefully' without changing the core grammatical relations.
Mark the option that presents only the correct statements.
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 |
Q3747835
Inglês
Mark the item that CORRECTLY fills in the blank below.
World War I (WWI) took place ______ the 20th century.
World War I (WWI) took place ______ the 20th century.
Ano: 2025
Banca:
IBAM
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Cachoeiras de Macacu - RJ
Prova:
IBAM - 2025 - Prefeitura de Cachoeiras de Macacu - RJ - Professor I (Língua Estrangeira Moderna - Inglês) |
Q3743518
Inglês
The prepositions at and in frequently overlap in
locative expressions. However, their selection is
governed by specific spatial and functional
constraints: “In” tends to imply enclosure or
inclusion within a boundary (physical or abstract).
“At” generally denotes a specific point, especially in directional or functional contexts. Considering the standard usage of these prepositions in British and international varieties of English, the sentence below which demonstrates the most appropriate and contextually precise usage is:
“At” generally denotes a specific point, especially in directional or functional contexts. Considering the standard usage of these prepositions in British and international varieties of English, the sentence below which demonstrates the most appropriate and contextually precise usage is:
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