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The couple had been driving the car for 3 hours. Then the wife says: _ I think the gasoline will end.
Qual é o phrasal verb que pode substituir corretamente o verbo “end”?
Acrobata da dor Gargalha, ri, num riso de tormenta,
como um palhaço, que desengonçado,
nervoso, ri, num riso absurdo, inflado
de uma ironia e de uma dor violenta.
Da gargalhada atroz, sanguinolenta,
agita os guizos, e convulsionado
salta, gavroche, salta clown, varado
pelo estertor dessa agonia lenta ...
É fácil dizer-se que não é um grande livro. Mas que qualidade lhe faltará? Talvez a de nada acrescentar à nossa visão de vida.
Na rua Aurora eu nasci
na aurora de minha vida
E numa aurora cresci.
no largo do Paiçandu
Sonhei, foi luta renhida,
Fiquei pobre e me vi nu.
nesta rua Lopes Chaves
Envelheço, e envergonhado
nem sei quem foi Lopes Chaves.
Mamãe! me dá essa lua,
Ser esquecido e ignorado
Como esses nomes da rua.
Qual alternativa utiliza corretamente o particípio passado?
Analyze the propositions and select the wrong alternative:
I- ‘many things’ (l. 6) is a countable example;
II- ‘something’ (l.9) can be also, used to offer something to somebody.
III- In the sentence ‘In this world, I love several things.’ ‘several’ (l.20) is uncountable.
Taking into account that (T) means True and (F) means False, the correct sequence of propositions is, respectively:
(__) ‘worse’ (l.4) is a comparative form of bad;
(__) ‘higher’ (l.10) and ‘older’ (l.12) are used to characterize passages of equality;
(__) ‘better’ (l.13) is an exception to the rules of the nouns’ comparison.
I- ‘age-related’ (l.8) is a hyphenated compound word;
II- ‘middle age’ (l.4, 5) is working as a noun;
III- ‘healthfully’ (l.18) is an adverb built by prefixation;
IV- ‘outside’ (l.6) is a preposition.
“All1 that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edgar Allan Poe)
“As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves2 happened rather than what actually happened.” (Kazuo Ishiguro)
“That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something3 you've understood all your life, but in a new way.” (Doris Lessing)
“There is nothing4 either good or bad but thinking makes it so.” (William Shakespeare)
In these sentences, the pronouns in bold are, respectively,
“There are four questions of value in life. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.” (Lord Byron)
“But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.” (William Shakespeare)
In terms of grammatical features, the two passages above have two aspects in common, which are the use of
Mark the alternative that correctly fills in the blanks in the following quotes with the comparative form of WIDE1, the superlative form of GOOD2, the superlative form of BAD3, the superlative form of LONG4, the superlative form of BEAUFIFUL5, and the comparative form of GOOD6.
“The brain is ______1 than the sky.” (Emily Dickinson)
“It was the ______ 2 of times, it was the ______3of times.” (Charles Dickens)
“Time is the ______ 4 distance between two places.” (Tennessee Williams)
“The ______5 thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.” (Wallace Stevens)
“Most men are a little ______6 than their circumstances give them a chance to be.” (William Faulkner)
“Beginning next week, the Adjutant and I will be making1 a series of snap inspections of section barrack-rooms. […] Just ordinary soldierly cleanliness and tidiness is all I want.” (Kingsley Amis)
“And I thought then, Just living long enough wipes out the problems. Puts you in a select club. […] Everybody’s face will have suffered2, never just yours.” (Alice Munro)
“If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise3 to the heights you are no doubt capable of.” (Kazuo Ishiguro)
In the sentences above, the tenses of the verb forms in bold are, respectively,
“I have often thought1 what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.” (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
“She had had2 to change her limbs. She had had to get limbs that ordinary people have and walk, but every step she took, agonizing pain! This is what she was willing3 to go through, to get the prince. So, I thought she deserved more than death on the water.” (Alice Munro)
In terms of verb tenses, the verb forms in bold in these sentences are, respectively, in the
Mark the alternative that correctly fills in the blanks in the following quote respectively with the simple past of the verb TO HUM, the past perfect of the verb TO FORGET, and the simple past of the verb TO BE.
“On his desk, a huge old electric typewriter ______1 — he ______2 to turn it off. He was among the many word-processing holdouts in the literary world. The typescript ______ 3 right there, in a neatly squared-off pile, six hundred pages — long, but not vast.” (Ian McEwan)
