In the fraction of the text “Speakers use a finite set of rules to produce and understand an infinite set of possible sentences.”, the words in bold carry opposite meaning because of the prefix “in”. The word which results in opposite meaning because of the same prefix is

Os verbos regulares a seguir foram retirados do texto e estão no tempo presente. Marque a alternativa em que os dois verbos têm seu sufixo -ed do passado e particípio passado pronunciado com /d/.

A student who does not know the meaning of the acronym A.D. would correctly ask for clarification from the teacher using the question

A father earns the gratitude of his children by nurturing them to be preeminent in the Assembly of the Learned.

Thirukural, verse 67, circa 100 A.D. in: KUMARAVADIVELU, B. 2003.

Regular verbs ending in voiced sounds are pronounced with the sound /d/ in the simple past and past perfect, and so are most adjectives with the same form. However, the word “Learned”, present in the quotation above, has a distinctive pronunciation feature when functioning as an adjective or a noun: /ˈlɜːnɪd/. Among the words below, choose the one that follows the same characteristic of pronunciation when used in such functions.

In the part of the text “the awareness and the tools that will allow them to achieve their academic, professional, social, and personal goals” the bolded portion is

In the excerpt “and some of these are discussed below”, the referent of the word in bold is

O conectivo em negrito no trecho retirado do texto “Because the culture of any community has many facets and manifestations” pode ser substituído, sem alteração de significado ou estrutura da frase, por

Read the following exchange:

A: Why was the king only able to draw straight lines?
B: Because he is a ruler.
Humor is caused by a linguistic property named

Even before they start reading the text “Powerful storm knocks out power to 1.4 million homes in Brazil’s largest city”, some students say they will not be able to understand it. And immediately mention the words “knock”, “households” and “swept”, in the headline and the first paragraph.

The literature about teaching reading in a second language mentions a variety of methods and approaches to deal with unknown vocabulary. Materials and teachers may instruct learners to

I. make use of the dictionary: they will not understand the text properly if they do not know all the words in it.
II. look for the pronunciation of the unknown words: the association between sound and spelling always helps comprehension.
III. ignore vocabulary difficulties and focus on grammar: meaning does not derive from words in isolation but from sentence structures.
IV. Pay attention to context and appeal to background knowledge on the subject: making inferences is key to learning a new language.
V. Concentrate on text meaning rather than word meaning: words may be ignored if not essential to the comprehension of the text’s main points.

A teacher interested in developing their students’ use of reading strategies will, in a reading class with the text “Powerful storm knocks out power to 1.4 million homes in Brazil’s largest city”, focus on the instructions given in items

While preparing reading comprehension exercises on the text, the teacher notes the absolute predominance of verbs in the simple past. However, this is not a language class, but a reading one, and the teacher wouldn’t like to deal with the topic “verbs” in isolation, as followers of structuralism would do. This way, in trying to articulate reading comprehension and linguistic knowledge, in a class on the text “Powerful storm knocks out power to 1.4 million homes in Brazil’s largest city”, the teacher