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The word “highest” (line 7) is an example of superlative adjective. 

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The cardinal number in line 12 can be rewritten as eighty thousand and three hundred and forty. 

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In both occurrences of the word “flooding” (lines 1 and 10) it works as the subject of the sentence.

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Hundreds of families have to leave their homes due to the Jari river’s natural disaster.

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Heavy rains caused the rise of the Jari river levels. This year it reached the highest level in the history.

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The communities affected by the flooding are not receiving any assistance from the local authorities. 

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More than twenty thousand people were affected in Laranjal do Jari since the beginning of the year. 

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Hamlet’s speech represents the soliloquy. 

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Hamlet expresses that his father’s sins were possibly forgiven by God before he was killed. 

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The phrase “And so am I revenged” in line 34 refers to an action that has been fulfilled.  

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In line 32, the word “might” can be correctly replaced with the modal verb could. 

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The word “forestalled” in line 20 could be replaced by prevented without changing the meaning of the sentence. 

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The first speaker in the text is praying only for forgiveness. 

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In line 14, the word “both” is used as a pronoun for the antecedent “double business bound” (line 12). 

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In line 12, the word “bound” could be replaced by constrained without changing the meaning of the sentence. 

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In line 45, the expression “the lesser evil” indicates that the Portuguese were not perceived by the Chinese as much of a threat as were East Asian pirates. 

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In line 43, the word “appreciated” could be replaced with enjoyed without changing the meaning of the sentence.

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In line 41, the word “foes” could be replaced with business counterparts without changing the meaning of the sentence. 

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In line 15, the word “patchwork” conveys the idea of a seamless system of regional markets. 

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The expansion of the trade network designed by the Portuguese was enabled by the range of technical solutions they offered, rather than by the nature of the products transacted.