Questõesde UECE 2011 sobre Inglês

According to the text, the philosophers Plato and Aristotle pondered that laughter

As to the scientific endeavor to decipher laughter and its effects in humans, the text states that it has

According to Dr. Dunbar’s studies on the reasons why laughter makes human beings feel so good, the explanation lies in the fact that the physical act of laughing

Through some experiments Dr. Dunbar concluded that

In trying to understand the connection between laughter and pain resistance, Dr. Dunbar found that

In the process of evolution, according to Dr. Dunbar, laughter could have been privileged because of

The clause “Were the English language ever to need an official guardian, […].” would adequately be rephrased as:

Having finished his lecture, the author immediately

The sentences “I recorded all my children over the years in some shape or form.”/ “It's a more sophisticated kind of communicative medium.” and “You get semantic threads running through it.” have syntactic elements that may be classified respectively as

Sarah wishes Gary

In terms of verb tense, the sentences “…abbreviations have always been part of the English language.” “…the recent news of a man who had been lying in a vegetative state for seven years…” and “…the 1960s, when the study of linguistics had hardly begun…”may be classified respectively as

If the teacher had not recorded his students, he

Not knowing what to do, Jane decided

In terms of voice, the sentences “He already has more than 100 books to his name.” and “David Crystal’s books have been widely read” are respectively

The sentences “This all sounds very innocent, but books for children can be a contentious issue.” and “Language, as much as history, is part of a national identity and cannot escape contemporary debates.” should be classified respectively as

The sentences “In the jaunty early chapters of A Little Book of Language, Crystal notes how, when his four children were young, he would study them.”, and “You don't talk to a linguist without having what you say taken down and used in evidence against you at some point in time.” contain, respectively, at least one

In the sentences “We are rearing a generation of kids who are more equitable and more understanding about the existence of language variety...” and “… some are academic but many are for the general inquisitive reader, including By Hook or by Crook: A Journey in Search of English and Shakespeare's Words, which was co-authored by his son, Ben.” one finds relative clauses that should be classified respectively as

The sentence “All these different genres – instant messaging, blogging, chatrooms, virtual worlds – have evolved different sets of communicative strategies.” is an example of a

In the sentence “When it gradually came back in, we didn't want to go back to what we did in the 1950s.” one may spot in its sequence a/an

In the text, the function of the words changing, talking, copywriting, and blogging is respectively