Read the following quote from "The Young American", by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1844):

"We must have kings, we must have nobles; nature is always providing such in every society: only let us have the real instead of the titular. In every society some are born to rule, and some to advise. The chief is the chief all the world over, only not his cap and plume. It is only this dislike of the pretender which makes men sometimes unjust to the true and finished man".

Which false cognate did we find in the text?

Read the following sentences:

I.Toni Morrison is a writer whose books are internationally appreciated.
II.I was trying to find out the time which I would have to catch my train.
III.This is the ice cream shop whereby my husband and I had our first date.
IV.I can't remember the deadline. Where should we hand in the final paper for this course?
V.Whichever one of you disrespected the teacher will have to go to the principal's office.

Regarding the use of the relative words in bold, which sentences are correct?

Which sentence presents a correct use of the phrasal verb with the word "take"?

Match the second column according to the first, which refers to the type of clause in bold:

First column: type

1.Noun clause
2.Adverb clause
3.Adjective clause

Second column: sentence

(__)What that person said stuck with me for a long time.
(__)I can't stand people who smoke.
(__)As long as you drink a lot of water, you will stay hydrated.

Read the sentences below and the functions of the word "as" in bold:

I.You can't be seen as a hero all the time. = to refer to the role or purpose of a person or thing.
II.As she finished her lunch break, the new clients arrived. = to talk about something that happens when something else takes place.
III.You shouldn't move in here, as this neighborhood is very far from the city center. = give a reason for a particular situation.
IV.You had the same idea as I did for this project. = to indicate simultaneous changes.
V.He is as nice as his younger brother. = to introduce an explanation.

Which alternatives are correct?

The University of Cambridge provides the following definition for a certain syntactic construction: "Repetition of the same word or words at the beginning of consecutive syntactic units". What is the name of this syntactic construction?

Choose the alternative that correctly fills in the blanks of the text:

"For the first time, according ___ a preliminary study by scientists ____ the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the arrival of an intense gust of solar wind ___ low Earth orbit (LEO) triggered the migration ___ half ___ all active satellites" (Doménech, 2024).

DOMÉNECH, F. Latest solar superstorm blinded the systems that prevent satellites from crashing in space. El País, 2024. Disponível em: https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2024-07-27/latest-solar-supersto rm-blinded-the-systems-that-prevent-satellites-from-crashing-in-space.h tml. Acesso em 25 de julho de 2024

Read the following quotes from "The Song of Achilles", by Madeline Miller (2011):

"He is known now only because of how his story touches yours. If you go to Troy, your fame will be so great that a man will be written into eternal legend just for having passed a cup to you".
"Nine months later, her womb yielded two sets of twins: Clytemnestra and Castor, children of her mortal husband; Helen and Polydeuces, the shining cygnets of the god. But gods were known to be notoriously poor parents; it was expected that Tyndareus would offer patrimony to all".
"I sat again on the grass, and he resumed his stretches. I watched the breeze stir his hair; I watched the sun fall on his golden skin. I leaned back and let it fall on me as well".
In every quote, a false cognate can be found. Which ones are they?

Which of the sentences below express the correct use of the words "can" and/or "can't"?

Which of the alternatives expresses the verbs in past simple form correctly?