IGEDUC — 2025

Ano: 2025·Banca: IGEDUC·Cargo: RN - Professor de Língua Inglesa·Concurso: Prefeitura de São José do Seridó

Digital communication, including emails, chats, and social media posts, has blurred the traditional boundaries between written and spoken English. Online discourse frequently combines informal vocabulary, abbreviations, and multimodal elements (emojis, hyperlinks, hashtags), leading to new textual genres. Considering this linguistic evolution, which statement best characterizes the impact of technology on English language use?

Ano: 2025·Banca: IGEDUC·Cargo: RN - Professor de Língua Inglesa·Concurso: Prefeitura de São José do Seridó

In modern English, phrasal verbs such as bring up, turn down, and carry on exemplify the blending of verbs with adverbial or prepositional particles that alter the base verb's meaning. The semantic relationship between the verb and the particle often produces idiomatic constructions that cannot be interpreted literally. Considering the syntactic behavior of these structures, which option below correctly identifies a true phrasal verb rather than a prepositional verb?

Ano: 2025·Banca: IGEDUC·Cargo: RN - Professor de Língua Inglesa·Concurso: Prefeitura de São José do Seridó

In academic and professional English, prepositions such as in spite of, according to, and with regard to are classified as complex prepositions, playing a crucial role in written discourse cohesion. They often indicate relationships of contrast, conformity, and reference. Based on this understanding, which of the following sentences uses a complex preposition correctly?

Ano: 2025·Banca: IGEDUC·Cargo: RN - Professor de Língua Inglesa·Concurso: Prefeitura de São José do Seridó

In English syntax, adjective phrases can function as modifiers either before or after the noun, and their position affects both meaning and emphasis. Predicative adjectives occur after linking verbs, while attributive ones precede nouns within noun phrases. Analyze the examples below and select the sentence that contains an adjective phrase functioning predicatively.

Ano: 2025·Banca: IGEDUC·Cargo: RN - Professor de Língua Inglesa·Concurso: Prefeitura de São José do Seridó

Textual cohesion depends on the appropriate use of grammatical devices such as reference, substitution, ellipsis, and conjunctions. In written communication, the connector nevertheless signals contrast, while pronouns like this and those maintain referential chains across sentences. Which of the following short texts demonstrates both cohesive reference and a contrastive connector effectively?

Ano: 2025·Banca: IGEDUC·Cargo: RN - Professor de Língua Inglesa·Concurso: Prefeitura de São José do Seridó

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The word industrialized in "industrialized US" derives from the noun industry and expresses a process of transformation. Which of the following options correctly mirrors this morphological pattern?

Ano: 2025·Banca: IGEDUC·Cargo: RN - Professor de Língua Inglesa·Concurso: Prefeitura de São José do Seridó

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In the sentence "Having only been officially unified in 1860, political tension between the government in the north and the rural peasants in the south increased in the 1870s," the use of a non-finite participial clause creates a temporal and causal relationship with the main clause. From a syntactic perspective, this structure exemplifies a form of subordination typical of academic and historical discourse. Which sentence below reproduces an equivalent syntactic pattern?

Ano: 2025·Banca: IGEDUC·Cargo: RN - Professor de Língua Inglesa·Concurso: Prefeitura de São José do Seridó

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In "By the early 20th century, the North End was densely filled with tenements, in which tens of thousands of Italians lived," the prepositions by and in establish temporal and spatial relations fundamental to textual coherence. Within the framework of English grammar, what specific semantic roles do these prepositions fulfill?

Ano: 2025·Banca: IGEDUC·Cargo: RN - Professor de Língua Inglesa·Concurso: Prefeitura de São José do Seridó

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The text indicates that "many Italian small businesses and restaurants remained in the North End, and it is still an important center of Italian culture." From an inferential reading perspective, what conclusion can be drawn about immigrant cultural persistence in urban spaces?

Ano: 2025·Banca: IGEDUC·Cargo: RN - Professor de Língua Inglesa·Concurso: Prefeitura de São José do Seridó

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In "After World War I, however, immigration patterns changed," the adverbial connector however signals contrast and textual progression. From a discourse perspective, such connectors perform a metatextual role, guiding reader interpretation. Which sentence below uses however in the same cohesive function?