Exercícios - Morfema e Sintaxe na Língua Inglesa

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1- We have started talking blithely about words and morphemes as if it were obvious that these categories exist and that we know them when we see them. This assumption comes naturally to literate speakers of English, because we've learned through reading and writing where white space goes, which defines word boundaries for us; and we soon see many cases where English words have internal parts with separate meanings or grammatical functions, which must be morphemes.
Morphemes are part of :
( ) Syntax
(x) Morphology
( ) Phonology
( ) Semantics
( ) Writing
	2- Choose the option that DOES NOT show a derivational morpheme (capitalized):
( ) drinkABLE
( ) nationAL
(x) speakS
( ) moderniZE
( ) NONsense
3- Prepositions commonly convey the following relationships, but:
( ) direction
(x) action
( ) comparision
( ) place
( ) agency
4- Mark the sentence which has two objects:
( ) The mother looks tired.
( ) It rains heavily during the summer.
( ) The teacher bought two books.
(x) The boy gave his mother a flower.
( ) The car stopped.
5- Mark the sentence in which the predicate is linked to the subject by a linking verb:
( ) She is going home
( ) The housewife prepared the food.
(x) My brother looked happy.
( ) The President went to many cities.
( ) My foot hurts.
6- Regarding to the use of Prefixes and Suffixes, choose the option in which all the words can be used by the following order: un + _______ + ly
( ) kind / friend / secure
(x) friend / common / fortunate
( ) important / lucky / secure
( ) fortunate / important / lucky
( ) successful / expect / kind
7- The capitalized morphemes in the following list are all core morphemes BUT one:
( ) CHILD-ish-ness
(x) Un-likeli-HOOD
( ) Over-EXCIT-ed
( ) Co-OPERAT-ive-ly
( ) Dis-GRACE-ful
8- Choose the best alternative to fill in the blank: "I ______ my work two hours ago."
(x) finished
( ) have finished
( ) has finished
( ) will finish
( ) am going to finish
9- The capitalized morphemes in the following list are all core morphemes BUT one:
(x) PreferENCE
( ) HAPPIly
( ) COMFORTable
( ) FAILure
( ) EFFECTIVEly
10- MORPHEMES are to MORPHOLOGY as THE SENTENCE is to:
( ) Morphology
(x) Syntax
( ) Semantics
( ) Phonetics
( ) Metaphors
11- Identify the subject in the following sentence:
The woman with long sleeves is selling him the car today.
( ) The woman is selling
( ) him
( ) The woman
(x) The woman with long sleeves
( ) the car
12- This analysis and description developed throughout centuries results in a meticulous method for classifying languages according to the ways morphemes are used in each language. 
The sentence above refers to:
( ) Figurative Language
(x) Morphology
( ) Syntax
( ) Phonology
( ) Semantics
13- Which sentence is correctly built in relation to the correct placement of the elements that form it?
( ) In the evening I watch TV.
(x) I watch TV in the evening.
( ) John gave a letter her mother.
( ) The couple did have not the blessing from their parents.
( ) The evening watch TV in.
14- Morphemes that cannot occur on their own are known as:
( ) Loose morphemes
( ) Restrained morphemes
( ) All morphemes
( ) Free morphemes
(x) Bound morphemes