Questões de Concurso

Decide whether the following statements are right (C) or wrong (E) according to text IV.

The author criticizes Krapp’s argument that exemplars of transplanted languages or dialects such as Acadian French are more archaic than the original ones, which continued evolving in their home countries.

Decide whether the following statements are right (C) or wrong (E) according to text IV.

It can be said from the text that to British ears, contemporary American accents belie declining grammar standards in America as compared to Colonial times.

Decide whether the following statements are right (C) or wrong (E) according to text IV.

According to the text, the fact that social origin was not as easy to identify based on the koine of eighteenth-century Americans as was the case with contemporary Britons reflected the early American colonies’ egalitarian ethos.

Decide whether the statements below, concerning the ideas and the vocabulary of text III, are right (C) or wrong (E).

The contrast between the images created by the expressions “monochrome, middle-aged and male” and “silk scarves and coloured jackets” functions as a rhetorical resource which reinforces the idea that French diplomacy is becoming a more feminine realm.

Decide whether the statements below, concerning the ideas and the vocabulary of text III, are right (C) or wrong (E).