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Ano: 2025
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VUNESP - 2025 - SEDUC-SP - Professor de Educação Básica II - Inglês - Promoção do QM 2022 |
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William Shakespeare (23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616),
who was an English playwright, poet and actor, is regarded
as the greatest writer in the English language and one of the
most famous in the history of humanity. He was very fond of
creating words, of which Arch-villain is an example. He also
created words by attaching prefixes or suffixes to existing
phrases. In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare popped ‘un’ in
front of ‘comfortable’ to create a word that’s now used every
day by people around the world.
(https://www.shakespeare.org.uk/explore. Adaptado)
Most English words that indicate an occupation or
profession end in suffixes like -er, -ist, -ian, among
others. There are exceptions, however. For example,
the person who writes plays is a playwright – there is
no such word as playwrighter. Another exception is the
word to indicate the person who
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