Questões de Concurso

The opening section explains that Herbert created Sync Labs during an early stage of her academic career. The sentence specifies the temporal relationship between launching the company and her status at the University of Pennsylvania.

Consider the excerpt.

"The experience informed her decision years later to launch Sync Labs [...] while she was still a student at the University of Pennsylvania."

What function does the clause introduced by "while" perform?

A student is revising a formal academic paragraph and wants to emphasize that the contradiction became evident immediately after the two versions were compared.

Which sentence presents appropriate word order?

Consider the clause opening the diagnostic discussion:
While still in use, the term Asperger's Syndrome does not appear in the most recent version...
Which grammatical analysis accounts for the structure and discourse relation of "While still in use"? 

Regarding the syntactic behavior of prepositions and conjunctions in English, mark T for true and F for false.

(__)In Despite the fact that the evidence was incomplete, the committee proceeded, despite functions as a preposition whose complement is the noun phrase headed by fact , while the that-clause is embedded within that noun phrase.

(__)In Because the evidence was incomplete and because of the evidence was incomplete , because and because of are syntactically interchangeable causal connectors, since both can directly introduce finite clauses.

(__)In Whereas the first proposal emphasizes access, the second emphasizes efficiency, whereas functions as a preposition because it establishes a contrastive relation between two propositions.

(__)The expressions in case and in case of belong to the same syntactic category: both directly introduce finite subordinate clauses expressing precaution or contingency.


The correct sequence, from top to bottom, is:

Regarding restrictive and negative-like fronting in formal English, mark T for true and F for false.

(__)In Only when did the participants receive the instructions they recognize the ambiguity, the inversion is correctly located because fronting only when requires subject?auxiliary inversion inside the dependent clause. 

(__)In Not until the results were independently replicated did the committee revise its position, the fronted constituent licenses inversion because it has restrictive scope over the temporal relation expressed by the sentence.

(__)In Only after the second calibration had been completed did the technicians obtain stable readings, subject?auxiliary inversion occurs in the main clause rather than inside the subordinate clause introduced by after.

(__)A sentence beginning with Rarely may display subject?auxiliary inversion when the adverbial is fronted, as in Rarely have researchers encountered such consistent results.



The correct sequence, from top to bottom, is: