Read the following excerpt of “A Journey” by Edith Wharton.

“[…] She thought hurriedly:--"If they see I am not surprised they will suspect something. They will ask questions, and if I tell them the truth they won't believe me--no one would believe me! It will be terrible"-- and she kept repeating to herself […]”.

Considering the excerpt above, choose the correct option.

“Give me the splendid, silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.” ― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

Taking the quotation into account, analyze the following statements.

I. The sun is described as silent and splendid.

II. The beams produced are full-dazzling.

III. “Silent sun” is composed by an adjective and a noun.

IV. “Beams full-dazzling” is composed by and a noun and a composed noun.

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Read the following excerpt of “The Story of An Hour” by Kate Chopin.

“She could see in the open square before her house the tops of trees that were all aquiver with the new spring life. The delicious breath of rain was in the air. In the street below a peddler was crying his wares. The notes of a distant song which someone was singing reached her faintly, and countless sparrows were twittering in the eaves.”

Taking the excerpts into account, analyze the following statements.

I. The sentence “The delicious breath of rain was in the air […]” is not written in the past continuous tense, because we have no verb in the –ing form with the verb to be. This way, this sentence is in the past simple tense.

II. The sentence “In the street below a peddler was crying his wares […]” is written in the past continuous tense, due to the use of the verb to be in the past and the following verb in the –ing form.

III. The sentence “The notes of a distant song which someone was singing reached her faintly […]” is written in the past continuous form and “someone” is the singular subject of “which someone was singing reached her faintly […]”.

IV. The sentence “[…] and countless sparrows were twittering in the eaves” has “sparrows” as the plural subject of the phrase which demands the verb “were” also in the plural form.

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Dreaming With a Broken Heart – John Mayer

When you're dreaming with a broken heart,

The waking up is the hardest part

You roll out of bed and down on your knees

And for a moment you can hardly breathe

Wondering was she really here

Is she standing in my room?

No, she's not

'Cause she's gone, gone, gone, gone, gone

When you're dreaming with a broken heart,

The giving up is the hardest part

[…]

Taking the lyrics into account, analyze the following statements.

I. The verb "wake up" is an example of phrasal verbs, however, in this lyrics, in line 2, it is used as a subject.

II. The verb “roll” (line 3) is complemented by “out of” and “down on”, both turning the former verb into phrasal verbs.

III. “She’s gone”, written in the lyrics, is an example of a phrasal verb.

IV. “Give up” is an example of a phrasal verb, and its use in this lyrics may refer to giving up on the person who broke your heart.

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“I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.”

― Edgar Allan Poe

Taking the text into account, analyze the following statements and the relationship between them.

I. It is possible to infer that the text brings the readers ideas that are not determined by any past time expression.

II.  The text has been mostly written in the present perfect tense.

​Considering the statements, choose the correct option.

Read the following excerpt of “A Dark Brown Dog” by Stephen Crane.

“A Child was standing on a street-corner. He leaned with one shoulder against a high board-fence and swayed the other to and fro, the while kicking carelessly at the gravel.

Sunshine beat upon the cobbles, and a lazy summer wind raised yellow dust which trailed in clouds down the avenue. Clattering trucks moved with indistinctness through it. The child stood dreamily gazing.

After a time, a little dark-brown dog came trotting with an intent air down the sidewalk. A short rope was dragging from his neck. Occasionally he trod upon the end of it and stumbled […]”.

Taking the excerpt into account and the information about adjectives, analyze the following statements.

I. Adjectives are used to give characteristics to something and, in this excerpt, we have them being used to describe not only the dog, but also the fence, the wind, the trucks, etc.

II. Some examples of adjectives are: “high”, “lazy”, “clattering”, and “short”, describing “the fence”, “the wind”, “the trucks”, and “the rope”, respectively.

III. The sentence “a lazy summer wind raised yellow dust which trailed in clouds down the avenue” has three adjectives: “lazy”, “summer”, “yellow”, being the first two to describe the wind and the third to describe the dust.

IV. On the sentence “After a time, a little dark-brown dog came trotting with an intent air down the sidewalk”, the expression “dark-brown” is related to the color of the dog.

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I look at you all, see the love there that's sleeping

While my guitar gently weeps

I look at the floor and I see it needs sweeping

Still my guitar gently weeps

[…]

Taking the lyrics into account, analyze the following statements and the relationship between them.

I. The connective "while" is a time indicator. ​

II. The use of this word means that different actions are happening at the same moment.

​Considering the statements, choose the correct option.

Taking the image into account, analyze the following statements.

I. “They” is the subject of the sentence “They say talking to plants helps them grow.”.

II. “Them” is the object of the sentence “They say talking to plants helps them grow.”.

III. “It” on the last image refers to “the plant”.

IV. John refers to himself as “I” on the second image because he is the subject of the sentence.

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