Comentários / IF-PB (Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia da Paraíba) - Professor EBTT - Letras - Língua Inglesa - IDECAN (Instituto de Desenvolvimento Educacional, Cultural e Assistencial Nacional) - 2019
Questão:
What can be stated about the passage?
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a) The English language can be difficult to be understood by foreign students due to some of its peculiarities. The variety of verb tenses that the verb “run” indicates exemplifies one of this difficult peculiarities.
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b) The author Simon Winchester, a columnist at New York Times, finds that the English language can be particularly difficult. The verb “run”, for example, contains more than 645 definitions.
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c) The word “run” became the English word with the greatest number of meanings in 1928 . This can be explained due to the advancement in technology that provided diverse contexts for the use of the word.
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d) The great number of meanings the word “run” has can be understood by the current moment we live, given the amount of information and the emergence of new technologies.
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e) The main meaning of the word run is related to the practice of physical activity. Yet, it contains 644 other definitions which demonstrates how English can be difficult for foreign students.
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