Questões de Concurso
Sobre voz ativa e passiva | passive and active voice em inglês
Foram encontradas 367 questões
Consider the following pair of sentences:
Active:
“Researchers conducted the experiment carefully.”
Passive:
“The experiment was conducted carefully (by researchers).”
Point the alternative that describes the functional difference between the active and passive constructions:
Consider the sentences below:
The committee rejected the proposal after a long discussion.
The proposal, after a long discussion, was rejected.
After a long discussion, the proposal faced rejection.
Analyze the three statements considering voice, syntactic structure, systemic-functional grammar (theme/rheme), and changes in informational focus. Mark the correct alternative:
“The administration reviewed all academic records during the audit.”
Which is the correct passive-voice transformation of the sentence below?
"The school board is going to implement a new assessment policy."
(__)The sentence "I had my car repaired" implies that the speaker arranged for a mechanic to fix the car, whereas "I repaired my car" implies the speaker did it personally.
(__)In the structure "Get something done" (e.g., "I need to get my hair cut"), the meaning is essentially the same as "Have something done", but "Get" is generally more informal and common in spoken English.
(__)The causative structure can also describe mishaps or accidental events where the subject experiences something negative, as in "He had his wallet stolen", meaning the theft happened to him, not that he arranged it.
(__)It is grammatically correct to say "I had the mechanic repaired my car" to express the causative meaning, using the past tense of the main verb instead of the past participle.
After analysis, select the alternative that presents the correct sequence of the items above, from top to bottom:
I. In the sentence "The window broke," the verb functions intransitively with a passive meaning, despite having active morphology and no explicit agent.
II. Ergative verbs require an agent in the subject position to be grammatically correct in the active voice.
III. "The book reads well" is an example of a middle voice construction where the grammatical subject undergoes the action.
Select the correct analysis:
Leia o texto para responder à questão.
Some History of English... in two words
In 1582, Richard Mulcaster, headmaster of the Merchant Tailors’ school1 wrote that “our English tung is of small reatch, it stretcheth no further than this Iland of ours”. It didn’t stay that way. Today, English is spoken by more than a billion people all over the world. It is a colourful, vibrant and diverse tongue, that long has picked up words from the many languages with which its speakers have come into contact.
One such word is Dictionary. It is a borrowing from medieval Latin dictionarius liber “book of words”; it first appeared in English in the 16th century, along with numerous adoptions from Latin and Greek.
Dr Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language (1755), although the most famous, is not the earliest; the first English dictionary was Robert Cawdrey’s Table Alphabeticall (1604). Unlike a modern desk dictionary, Cawdrey set out to gloss only the most unfamiliar words, such as deambulate, pactation, and refractarie – whose meanings would have caused problems for those not educated in Latin and Greek.
Another such word is Emoji2 , originally developed in Japan in the 1990s for use by teenagers on their pagers; the word emoji derives from the Japanese e “picture” + moji “character, letter”. Its successful integration into English has been helped by its similarity to words with the e-“electronic” prefix, such as e-mail and e-book. E-communication is a form of writing that resembles casual conversation more than formal prose, often situated in real time with a known recipient, but lacking the extra-linguistic cues such as facial expression, tone of voice, hand gestures, that help to convey attitude in face-toface interactions, and users are finding creative new ways to employ emojis.
(https://theconversation.com/Adaptado. Acesso em 18.08.2015)
1 a public school for 11-18 year olds, founded in 1561 in London just for boys back then.
2 iconic, visual representation of an idea, entity, feeling, status or event used alongside or instead of words in digital messaging. The plural form in English is either emoji or emojis.
(__)Na frase 'The solution was heated to 100°C', o agente da ação (by phrase) é omitido porque é irrelevante ou desconhecido, focando o processo científico e não o pesquisador.
(__)A transformação da ativa 'Did the team verify the data?' para a passiva resulta em 'Was the data verified by the team?', exigindo o ajuste da concordância verbal caso 'data' seja tratado como plural (latim original), embora o uso como singular seja comum hoje.
(__)O uso da voz passiva é desencorajado em todos os gêneros textuais modernos, incluindo relatórios técnicos, devido à influência do 'Plain English', que exige sempre a voz ativa.
(__)Construções como 'It is believed that...' ou 'It is thought that...' são exemplos de passiva impessoal, comuns em textos acadêmicos para introduzir consensos ou hipóteses sem atribuir autoria direta.
Após análise, assinale a alternativa que apresenta a sequência correta dos itens acima, de cima para baixo:
Cold Kimchi Tomato Bibim Noodles

Ingredients
For the sauce
3 tablespoons tomato paste
2 tablespoons gochujang
1 teaspoon kosher salt
1 1/2 tablespoons sesame oil
3 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
3 tablespoons kimchi juice
1 tablespoon honey
1 cup chopped kimchi
For the noodles
150 grams somen noodles
For the toppings
2 Persian cucumbers, sliced into matchsticks
1 shallot, minced
2 cups cherry tomatoes, halved
2 soft-boiled eggs (7 minutes, jammy yolks)
4 radishes, thinly sliced
To finish
Extra sesame oil, for drizzling
2 tablespoons furikake
Handful of cilantro
Directions
•Step 1
I.The phrasal verb "shake off" in "shake off excess water" consists of a transitive separable phrasal verb where "shake" functions as the lexical verb and "off" as an adverbial particle modifying the verb's meaning to indicate removal or elimination, and this construction could be paraphrased as "remove by shaking" without significant semantic loss.
II.The passive voice construction "until each strand is coated" demonstrates a grammatical transformation from an active equivalent "until the sauce coats each strand," where the patient (each strand) becomes the syntactic subject while the agent (sauce) is demoted or omitted, and this passivization serves the rhetorical function of maintaining focus on the noodles rather than the sauce throughout the instructional sequence.
III.The temporal subordinate clause "until completely cooled" in "rinse under cold water until completely cooled" exhibits ellipsis of the subject and auxiliary verb, with the complete structure being "until [the noodles are] completely cooled," and this syntactic reduction represents a common feature of procedural discourse where redundant elements are omitted for brevity and efficiency.
The following statement(s) is/are CORRECT:




Acerca das regras e usos da voz passiva, marque V, para as afirmativas verdadeiras, e F, para as falsas:
(__)Na transformação da ativa ("The company hired new employees.") para a passiva ("New employees were hired by the company."), o objeto da voz ativa torna-se o sujeito da voz passiva.
(__)A voz passiva só pode ser formada com verbos transitivos (que pedem objeto); verbos intransitivos (como *arrive* ou *sleep*) não podem ser usados na voz passiva.
(__)Para formar a voz passiva no *Present Perfect* (e.g., "The manager has seen the report"), a estrutura correta é "The report has been seen by the manager".
(__)O agente da passiva (introduzido por "by") é frequentemente omitido, especialmente quando o agente é desconhecido, óbvio ou irrelevante para a informação principal.
Após análise, assinale a alternativa que apresenta a sequência correta dos itens acima, de cima para baixo:
Which alternative correctly rewrites the sentence in the passive voice?


