IGEDUC — 2025

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

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In the passage, the narrator refers to southern Italy as "a region in the midst of great tumult and hardship." Considering the function of adjectives within the nominal phrase, analyze how the words great and southern operate semantically and syntactically. They not only qualify the nouns they precede but also contribute to the text's evaluative tone about regional inequality and social crisis. What do these adjectives primarily express within this context?

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

Com texto de apoio

The text refers to "illiterate day laborers" and "skilled and unskilled workers," emphasizing class distinctions and occupational hierarchies. From the perspective of the noun phrase structure, these expressions combine adjectives that serve both descriptive and classificatory functions. How do such structures contribute to the socio-historical meaning of the text?

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

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In the clause "disease ravaged both staple and cash crops," the active voice foregrounds the agent and the action simultaneously. If transformed into a passive construction without altering meaning, which alternative preserves both grammatical accuracy and semantic equivalence?

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

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The text "Italians" combines narrative description and historical exposition, presenting factual information with interpretive commentary. Considering textual typology and communicative function, which feature best defines this genre?

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

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In "Conditions in the United States during this era appeared to be very favorable to many in southern Italy," the adverb very intensifies the adjective favorable. From a syntactic and pragmatic perspective, adverbs of degree like very operate as scalar modifiers that influence meaning without altering propositional truth. Which of the following sentences mirrors the same grammatical and semantic function of "very" in this context?

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?