Questões de Concurso

One mechanism of grammatical cohesion is the use of substituting pro-forms. The only example of a pro-form is:

According to the Longman Grammar (Biber et al.,1999, p.988), “collocations are associations between lexical words, so that the words co-occur more frequently than expected by chance”. This text presents several examples of collocations. The only exception is:

This text shows several examples of multiple parallel clausal structures. One example particularly shows the repetition of subordinate clauses to describe the preceding noun phrase, producing a certain dramatic effect. The example is:

According to the Longman Grammar (Biber et al.,1999), it is dificult to identify the intended time reference for the past perfect, because the reference depends on the context. In “All of them were loved, but most had missed many of the experiences we expect children to have in their first five years." (l.12), the time reference for the past perfect verb phrase is:

Lexical choices vary according to the different types of language: written or spoken. An example of a word in the text that is typical of American conversational English is: