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NOUNS
De acordo com o dicionário de Oxford, um noun, ou substantivo em português é uma palavra que se refere a
uma pessoa, coisa, qualidade ou atividade.
Existem alguns substantivos que são compostos por hífen e outros não. Os hífens servem para unir duas
ou mais palavras a fim de evitar ambiguidades. Veja abaixo alguns exemplos:
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Examples:
COUNTABLE UNCOUNTABLE
Dollar Money
Minute Time
Cup Coffee
Piece Bread
Glass Glass
Obs.: A palavra glass pode ter dois significados diferentes e duas classificações diferentes.
• Ex.: I drink a glass of water. (Eu bebo um copo de água.)
• Ex.: The glass of the window is broken. (O vidro da janela está quebrado.)
SINGULAR PLURAL
Person People
Woman Women
Mouse Mice
Datum Data
Kid Kids
Bacterium Bacteria
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Por outro lado, outros substantivos não apresentam diferença entre feminino e masculino, especialmente
os que determinam profissões e algumas relações familiares:
Examples:
• Doctor (Médico/Médica)
• Student (Estudante)
• Cousin (Primo/Prima)
• Friend (Amigo/Amiga)
• Nurse (Enfermeiro/Enfermeira)
• Lawyer (Advogado/Advogada)
• Teacher (Professor/Professora)
Tais substantivos podem ser distinguidos acrescentando previamente palavras como Male (masculino) ou
Female (feminino) a depender do sexo de quem se fala.
Examples:
Michael is not my boyfriend. He is just a male friend. It will be good to have a female doctor in the family.
Obs.: É uma velha tradição nos referirmos a navios e carros no feminino, possivelmente por conta da
influência do France na língua ing lesa.
Examples:
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Examples:
• The dog’s food bowl is empty. (A tigela de comida do cachorro está vazia).
• New York City’s crime rate is low. (A taxa de criminalidade de Nova York é baixa).
a) Poison 9. In, "Let’s watch the full moon come up over the
mountain.", the highlighted word is a compound
b) Situation
noun made of:
c) Limit
a) Adjective + noun
d) Test
b) Verb + noun
4. Mark the option which has a genitive case:
c) Verb + preposition
a) What’s your favorite color? d) Noun + adjective
b) A friend of mine is from Australia.
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10. Medicine should not be kept where it is 17. In, "There was a crowd on the street.", which
to children. word is a collective noun ?
a) Far away a) Street
b) Accessible b) Crowd
c) Untouchable c) On
d) Inaccessible d) There
11. His is as changeable as the Bri- 18. If you go to a big shop, you will have many
tish weather. more .
a) Mood a) Choices
b) Character b) Price
c) Thought c) News
d) Behavior d) Furniture
12. The comitee discussed the matter for 19. My mother’s father is my .
many hours, but could not come to a(n)
. a) Father
a) Existence b) Mother
b) Decision c) Cousin
c) Argument d) Grandfather
d) Discussion 20. All the underlined words are uncountable,
except:
13. Both Christianity and Islam are
religions. a) I eat bread for breakfast.
a) Monotheistic b) She doesnt have much money.
b) Polytheistic c) The students did many exercises.
c) Atheistic d) I drink coffee every day.
d) Polytheism
21. I read in a(n) that a company
14. When the king died, the prince became the is looking for engineers.
new ruler of the . a) Instruction
a) Republic b) Advertisement
b) Government c) Booklet
c) Kingdom d) Synopsis
d) Palace
22. A book gives directions ex-
15. The tried hard to overcome plaining how to prepare and cook various kinds
the air pollution in the city. of food.
a) Washers a) Recipe
b) Governors b) Advertisement
c) Plants c) Novel
d) Clouds d) School report
16. He was a . He died while figh- 23. The corn fields in the valley were destroyed
ting for his country in the World War I. by the after the storm.
a) Separatist a) Drought
b) Spy b) Wind
c) Patriot c) Flood
d) Coward d) Famine
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24. We have a of tests during this 31. The collective of "fish"is called .
week.
a) Shoal
a) Herd b) Nest
b) Battery c) Troop
c) Crowd d) Crew
d) Tribe
32. The collective of "soldier"is called
25. He has won my because he .
has been working honestly.
a) Band
a) Selfish b) Choir
b) Confidence c) Colony
c) Envy d) Troop
d) Trsutworthy
33. All the alternatives have a female form, ex-
26. One must meet the to be elec- cept:
ted as a chair person.
a) Engineer
a) Subjects b) Waiter
b) Contracts c) King
c) Requirements d) Actor
d) Treatments
34. Which of these words is in the singular?
27. Everybody made but does a) Children
nothing about the degradation of our environ-
ment. b) People
c) Bacteria
a) Pollution
d) Cactus
b) Interruptions
c) Complaints 35. Which of these options is a proper noun?
d) Acceleration a) Jane.
b) Spain.
28. I don’t know the scheduled time of
, but I do know that the plane c) Microsoft.
to Istanbul has already left. d) All of the above.
a) Purchase 36. (PMSC) In the following excerpt: "(...) the go-
b) Accomodation vernment received notifications of 3,306 potential vic-
c) Departure tims of modern slavery in England and Wales (...)",
the underlined words are, respectively:
d) Station
a) A noun an adjective a noun an adjective.
29. She tried hard to solve the between
b) An adjective an adjective a noun a noun.
the two friends but she couldn’t succeed it.
c) An adjective a noun an adjective a noun.
a) Relationship
d) A noun a noun an adjective an adjective.
b) Conflict
e) An adjective a noun a noun a noun.
c) Indication
d) Register
a) Appearance
b) Impression
c) Improve
d) Develop
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37. (EEAR-13) Could you or Someone You Care 42. (EEAR-17) Choose the alternative in which
About Have an Eating Disorder? In a culture all the words are uncountable.
where thinness is too often equated with phy-
sical attractiveness, success, and happiness, ne- a) salt - cake - egg
arly everyone has dealt with issues regarding b) chocolate - butter - walnut
the effect their weight and body shape can have
on their selfimage. However, eating disorders c) flour - baking powder - sugar
such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, com- d) vanilla - cake tin - ice cream
pulsive eating, and obesity, are not about dieting
or vanity they’re complex psychological disor- 43. (EEAR-18) TwentyFirst Century Birdwat-
ders in which individual’s eating patterns are ching Our ancestors could spot natural preda-
developed and then habitually maintained in tors from far by their silhouettes. Are we equally
an attempt to cope with other problems in their aware of the predators in the present day? Dro-
life. Eating disorders know no class, cultural, or nes are remotecontrolled planes that can be used
gender boundaries and can affect men, women, for anything from surveillance, to rescue ope-
adolescents, and even children, from all walks rations and scientific research. Most drones
of life. are used today by military powers for remote-
- All the words below are nouns, except: controlled surveillance and attack, and their
numbers are growing. The Federal Aviation Ad-
a) bless. ministration (FAA) predicted in 2012 that within
b) success. 20 years there could be as many as 30.000 dro-
nes flying over U.S. Soil alone. As robotic birds
c) happiness.
will become commonplace in the near future, we
d) attractiveness. should be prepared to identify them.
38. All words below are countable nouns, except: In the text, all the nouns bellow refer to drones,
except:
a) mice
b) news a) predators (line 2)
c) sheep b) ancestors (line 1)
d) children c) robotic birds (line 10)
d) remotecontrolled planes (line 3)
39. (EEAR-13) All words below describe male fa-
mily members, except:
44. (EEAR12) "Thursday"comes
a) son
a) before Wednesday.
b) uncle
b) after Monday.
c) mother
d) grandfather c) before Friday.
d) after Friday.
40. (EEAR-11) Positive thoughts make work
easier. Thoughts is . 45. (EPCAR-17) Mark the group of uncountable
a) A verb words extracted from the text above.
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61. Mark the option with only abstract nouns, ex- 68. Read the paragraph and mark the option
cept: with a proper noun: Japan is a fascinating coun-
try of economic and business prowess, rich cul-
a) Believe ture, technical wizardry, spatial conundrums
b) Courage and contradictions. Japan held onto the title of
the world’s second largest economy for more
c) Passion
than 40 years from 1968 to 2010.
d) Anger
a) business
62. Mark the option with only countable nouns: b) economy
a) Advice - information c) fascinating
d) Japan
b) Water - bottle
c) Furniture - baggage 69. "Mother and father" are examples of:
d) Letter - book a) vegetables
63. Mark the option without a possessive noun: b) family members
c) fruits
a) The clown’s nose
d) machines
b) The Smiths’dog
70. "Purple and brown" are:
c) The four babies’bibs
d) The girl’s happy. a) Clothes
b) Seasons
64. All the options are in the plural form, except: c) Foods
a) woman d) Colors
b) people 71. "Winter" is an example of:
c) bacteria a) season
d) analyses b) weather
65. All the words are in the singular form, ex- c) temperature
cept: d) rate
d) Advising a) Paris
b) Agility
67. All the sentences below have a wild animal,
c) Control
except:
d) Series
a) The video showed a man morphing into a
tiger. 74. Mark the option with an example of genitive
case:
b) Macaws’ big size and vibrant colors make
them hard to overlook. a) He’s really tired.
c) A dog lay under the table, gnawing on a b) My father’s son is my brother.
bone. c) She’s been stdying abroad.
d) We sailed past a group of seals. d) She’s a nurse.
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75. (EN) Which of the alternatives below comple- 81. (UFRGS) The correct verbal forms of the
tes the sentence correctly? I need (1) about the nouns "seduction", "betrayal", and "destruc-
next exams. tion"are:
76. (EFOMM-06) Choose the alternative that 82. The correct verbal forms of the nouns "crea-
best replaces the underlined words. "Psycholo- tion and "difference"are:
gists say kids are being robbed of time they need for
a) create - differentiate
connecting with their parents and siblings".
b) creator - different
a) colleagues c) creative - differently
b) partners d) creatively - different
c) relatives
83. The correct verbal forms of the nouns "be-
d) friends
auty"and "strength"are:
e) brother or sister
a) strengthen - beautify
77. (EEAR) In (...) "you are not sureabout how much b) strong - beautiful
(...)", the underlined words are closest in mea-
c) strongly - beautifully
ning to "you ".
d) stronger - beautiful
a) know
b) are certain 84. I don’t have much . Just two
small bags.
c) are uncertain
a) handbags
d) have no doubt
b) luggage
78. (EEAR) According to the text, choose the best c) suitcases
response. In "Americans usually tip people in pla-
ces like restaurants, airports, hotels, and (...)", the d) bags
word "TIP"is closest in meaning to
85. In, "The forecast is for dry, cloudy weather with
a) take some money. no precipitation expected." the word in bold type
is closest in meaning to:
b) pay for the service.
c) ask for extra money. a) Snow
d) give an amount of additional money. b) Wind
c) Rain
79. (EEAR) "low wages", in bold type in the text,
d) Cloud
is closest in meaning to
86. In, "The town hall is the only edifice surviving
a) large tips.
from the 15th century." the word in bold type is
b) small tips. closest in meaning to:
c) small salary.
a) House
d) a high amount of money.
b) Fabric
80. (EEAR) In "Walker is a clerk, but he also ma- c) Tower
kes money as Daniel’s double (...)", the underlined d) Building
word means that Walker Daniel.
a) looks like
b) is not similar
c) is different from
d) is the opposite of
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96. (EEAR) "Brazil’s air force says it will install 99. The noun that correspond to the verb in bold
new software to improve air traffic control across type, in the sentence below, is:
the nation. The air force says the locally develo- He never acts on other peoples advice."
ped software will help avoid a repeat of the cha-
otic situation in 2007 when radar failures and a) Actor
problems prompted mass cancellati-
ons and delays.(...)" failures, (line 05), is a(n) b) Active
c) Action
a) verb.
d) Actively
b) noun.
c) adjective. 100. (NUCEPE) The sequence that shows only
d) conjunction. countable nouns is
97. (EEAR) If you feel nervous about a task, stop a) rice, meat, cherry, tea.
and think positive thoughts. (...) thoughts, (line b) sausage, water, potato, cake.
5), is
c) electricity, pride, house, bread.
a) a verb.
d) eggplant, pantyhose, truck, wolf.
b) a noun.
e) homework, evidence, flour, orange.
c) an adverb.
d) an adjective.
5.9.1 Gabarito
98. (EEAR) "Native speakers of English, too, have 1) A 2) C 3) A 4) C 5) B
a fundamentally important role to play in the in- 6) A 7) D 8) D 9) A 10) B
ternational efforts to increase communication safety. 11) A 12) B 13) A 14) C 15) B
Improving radiotelephony safety is no small mat- 16) C 17) B 18) A 19) D 20) C
ter, requiring concerted effort and widespread coo- 21) B 22) B 23) C 24) B 25) B
peration, and all pilots and controllers will benefit
26) C 27) C 28) C 29) B 30) B
an improved understanding of how
31) A 32) D 33) A 34) D 35) D
language functions, with a focus on strategies that
36) C 37) A 38) B 39) C 40) B
aid comprehension and clarity. Additionally, an ethi-
41) D 42) C 43) B 44) C 45) C
cal obligation arises on the part of native speakers
46) C 47) A 48) D 49) D 50) C
of English, in particular, to increase their linguistic
awareness and to take special care in the delivery of 51) B 52) A 53) D 54) D 55) D
messages.(...)" 56) B 57) C 58) B 59) C 60) A
61) A 62) D 63) D 64) A 65) A
The words: "safety", clarity"and "delivery", in 66) C 67) C 68) D 69) B 70) A
bold in the text, are
71) A 72) C 73) A 74) B 75) D
a) verbs. 76) E 77) C 78) D 79) C 80) A
81) A 82) A 83) A 84) B 85) C
b) nouns.
86) D 87) A 88) C 89) D 90) D
c) adverbs. 91) D 92) D 93) C 94) C 95) B
d) adjectives. 96) B 97) B 98) B 99) C 100) D
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