Questões de Concurso

Consider the following pairs of Direct Speech and their corresponding Reported Speech versions. Analyze the accuracy of the transformations regarding backshift of tenses, pronouns, and time expressions:

I. Direct: "I will visit you tomorrow," she said to me.
Reported:She told me that she would visit me the following day.
II. Direct: "Did you finish the lesson?" the teacher asked.
Reported:The teacher asked if I had finished the lesson.
III. Direct: "Don't touch the wire!" he shouted.
Reported: He shouted me to not touch the wire.
IV. Direct: "I have lived here for ten years," Paul mentioned.
Reported:Paul mentioned that he had lived there for ten years.

Which of the statements above present a CORRECTtransformation into Reported Speech?

Read the following quote, taken from paragraph 05 of the text, then analyze the statements about it.

“I always joke that books are not made of glass”

I. ‘I’ is a subject pronoun.
II. The sentence is written in Present Perfect.
III. ‘always’ is an adverb of frequency.
IV. ‘books are not made of glass’ is an example of Passive Voice.

Which statements are completely accurate?

Leia o trecho extraído do romance Ulysses, de James Joyce.
"He is gone from mortal haunts: O’Dignam, sun of our morning. Fleet was his foot on the bracken: Patrick of the beamy brow. Wail, Banba, with your wind: and wail, O ocean, with your whirlwind.
—There he is again, says the citizen, staring out. —Who? says I. —Bloom, says he. He’s on point duty up and down there for the last ten minutes. And, begob, I saw his physog do a peep in and then slider off again. Little Alf was knocked bawways. Faith, he was. —Good Christ! says he. I could have sworn it was him. And says Bob Doran, with the hat on the back of his poll, lowest blackguard in Dublin when he’s under the influence: —Who said Christ is good? —I beg your parsnips, says Alf." JOYCE, James. Ulysses. Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1922, p. 390. 

Considerando-se o uso dos pronomes em Língua Inglesa e seu papel na coesão textual, assinale a alternativa correta.

Assinale a alternativa em que a função sintático-semântica do pronome "it" difere daquela observada nas demais: 

In the sentence “It said the figure was probably an underestimate [...]” (l. 05-06), the pronoun “It” refers to: