Questões Concurso Prefeitura de Flores da Cunha - RS

Considering meaning, which of the sentences below best represents another way of saying “We're not allowed to say anything about it.” (l. 19)? 

In which of the following sentences the ‘s is used with the same function as in the sentence “We wanted to make a song that made sense in the world and in people's lives” (l. 26-27)?

Local accents aside, standard American English has a rule that guides the pronunciation of simple past regular verbs. According to this rule, the “ed” may be pronounced as listed in Column 1. About that, match the correct pronunciation of “ed” in Column 1 to the verbs in Column 2.

Column 1

1. /t/.

2. /d/.

3. /?d/.

Column 2

( ) started (l. 11).

( ) happened (l. 15).

( ) finished (l. 29).

The correct order of filling the parentheses, from top to bottom, is: 

Analyse the statements below about the excerpt “I think that actually made it easier for us. We always write the quickest when we have a story or we're writing about something that's happened.” (l. 14-15).

I. “Easier” is a comparative form of the adjective “easy”, and it is written this way because the spelling rule for short adjectives ending in consonant + y is to drop the y and add ier.

II. “Quickest” is a comparative form of the adverb “quick”, and it is written this way because the spelling rule for short adverbs in general is to add est.

III. If “easier” were replaced by a long adjective like “beautiful,” its comparative form would be “more beautiful”.

Which statements are correct?

Analyse the contractions 1 to 4 indicated by the apostrophes in the excerpts below and the context of the sentences in the article:

•  We'd (1) always wanted to write a Bond song. (l. 04).

•  We'd (2) been writing motifs and thinking of melodies for a couple of years (l. 05).

•  We're (3) writing about something that's (4) happened (l. 15).

Choose the alternative with the options that correctly correspond to each contracted word.