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The passive voice is a strategic tool in academic writing to shift focus to the recipient of the action or to omit the agent when it is unknown or irrelevant. Considering the "Causative Passive" construction (have/get something done), choose the option that correctly rewrites the sentence "A professional photographer took her portrait" to emphasize that she arranged for the service.
The mastery of fundamental grammatical structures and vocabulary is the basis for communicative competence in English. Concerning the use of verb tenses and word formation in English, register T for true statements and F for false statements:

(__)The Present Perfect tense is used to describe actions that happened at a specific time in the past, always requiring the use of precise dates like 'last Friday at 2 PM'.
(__)Prefixes and suffixes are used in English to change the meaning or the word class of a base word, such as adding '-ness' to an adjective to form a noun.
(__)The use of modal verbs like 'can', 'must' and 'should' allows the speaker to express different degrees of possibility, obligation and advice in a conversation.
(__)Passive voice is formed by using the verb 'to be' and the past participle of the main verb, focusing more on the action itself than on the person who performed it.

After the analysis, choose the alternative that presents the correct sequence:
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Considere o trecho a seguir: “Mark has tracked focalized attention.” Assinale a alternativa que apresenta a reescrita correta na voz passiva, mantendo integralmente o aspecto verbal e a relação semântica.
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Considere o trecho a seguir: “Mark has tracked focalized attention.” Assinale a alternativa que apresenta a reescrita correta na voz passiva, mantendo integralmente o aspecto verbal e a relação semântica.
Analyze the following statements regarding the phrase the quote is widely attributed to showman P.T. Barnum:
I. Using the passive voice puts Barnum at the center of the sentence, which fits the paragraph's focus on his reputation and legacy.
II. The point is that it is widely said Barnum is responsible for the quote. The passive voice elegantly generalizes and vagueness the source, which is appropriate for common attribution or collective opinion.
III. The writer wants the reader to pay attention to who receives the credit (P.T. Barnum), not who exactly is doing the crediting ("people say", "historians claim", "critics argue").
The CORRECT statements are: