Exercícios sobre adjetivos em inglês

Carla Muniz

Professora licenciada em Letras

Teste os seus conhecimentos sobre a ordem em que os adjetivos são posicionados em uma frase, as formas de comparativo e superlativo e muito mais.

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Questão 1

Assinale a alternativa que completa a frase corretamente:

She is a __________________.

a) girl beautiful
b) beautiful girl
c) awesome girl
d) girl awesome

Questão 2

(PM-SC/2018)

From Nail bars to car washes: how big is the UK’s slavery problem?

by Annie Kelly

Does slavery exist in the UK?

More than 250 years since the end of the transatlantic slave trade, there are close to 41 million people still trapped in some form of slavery across the world today. Yet nobody really knows the scale and how many victims or perpetrators of this crime there are in Britain.

The data that has been released is inconsistent. The government believes there are about 13,000 victims of slavery in the UK, while earlier this year the Global Slavery Index released a much higher estimate of 136,000.

Statistics on slavery from the National Crime Agency note the number of people passed on to the government’s national referral mechanism (NRM), the process by which victims of slavery are identified and granted statutory support. While this data gives a good snapshot of what kinds of slavery are most prevalent and who is falling victim to exploiters, it doesn’t paint the whole picture. For every victim identified by the police, there will be many others who are not found and remain under the control of traffickers, pimps and gangmasters.

There are also many potential victims who don’t agree to go through the mechanism because they don’t trust the authorities, or are too scared to report their traffickers. Between 1 November 2015 and 30 June 2018, the government received notifications of 3,306 potential victims of modern slavery in England and Wales who were not referred to the NRM.

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The police recorded 3,773 modern slavery offences between June 2017 and June 2018.

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(Source: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/ oct/18/nail-bars-car-washes-uk-slavery-problem-anti-slavery-day. Access: 20/10/2018)

In the following excerpt: “(…) the government received notifications of 3,306 potential victims of modern slavery in England and Wales (…)”, the underlined words are, respectively:

a) A noun; an adjective; a noun; an adjective.
b) An adjective; an adjective; a noun; a noun.
c) An adjective; a noun; an adjective; a noun.
d) A noun; a noun; an adjective; an adjective.
e) An adjective; a noun; a noun; a noun.

Confira também: Adjetivos em inglês (adjectives)

Questão 3

Observe a sequência de palavras e ordene-as corretamente

a) a - big - black - dog - fat

b) an - French - interesting - old - song

c) a - new - jacket - green

Questão 4

Marque a alternativa correta.

a) Os adjetivos em inglês variam em gênero, número e grau.
b) Os adjetivos em inglês só variam em gênero e número.
c) Os adjetivos em inglês só variam em gênero.
d) Os adjetivos em inglês variam apenas em grau.

5. Reescreva as frases utilizando o adjetivo possessivo correto. Siga o modelo.

Modelo: Ann’s house is really big.

Resposta: Her house is really big.

a) Mr. Johnson’s cat is black.

b) The kids’ teacher is sick.

c) My dog’s name is Duke.

Veja também: O caso genitivo - The genitive case ('s) e Possessive Pronouns

Questão 6

Identifique a opção que indica o uso correto dos adjetivos em inglês:

a) Os adjetivos devem ser posicionados antes dos indefinite pronouns (pronomes indefinidos) em uma frase.
b) Os adjetivos não podem ser usados em frases que tenham indefinite pronouns (pronomes indefinidos).
c) Em uma frase, os indefinite pronouns (pronomes indefinidos) são posicionados depois dos adjetivos.
d) Quando uma frase tem um indefinite pronoun (pronome indefinido), o adjetivo deve ser posicionado depois dele.

Veja também: Indefinite pronouns

Questão 7

Escolha a alternativa que preenche a frase abaixo corretamente:

She is _____________________ girl I know.

a) more beautiful than
b) the most beautiful
c) as beautiful as
d) less beautiful than

Questão 8

Complete a frase de forma adequada:

Mary is 10 years old. Jean is 10 years old.

Mary is _____________________ Jean.

a) younger than
b) the youngest
c) as young as
d) less young than

Questão 9

(Colégio Naval/2018)

TEXT I

Social media ’destroying how society works'

A former Facebook executive has said social media is doing great harm to society around the world. The executive is a man called Chamath Palihapitiya. He ___________ Facebook in 2007 a n d ___________a vice president. He was responsible for increasing the number of users Facebook had. Mr Palihapitiya said he feels very guilty about getting more people to use social networks. He said the networks are destroying society because they are changing people's behavior. Twenty years ago, people talked to each other face to face. Today, people message each other and do not talk. People also really care about what other people think of them. They post photos and wait to see how many people like the photo. They get very sad if people do not like the photo.

Mr. Palihapitiya said people should take a long break from social media so they can experience real life. He wants people to value each other instead of valuing online "hearts, likes, and thumbs-up". Palihapitiya also points out how fake news is affecting how we see the world, it is becoming easier for large websites to spread lies. It is also becoming easier to hurt other people online. Anyone can hide behind a fake user name and post lies about other people. Palihapitiya said this was a global problem. He is worried about social media so much that he has banned his children from using it. However, he did state that Facebook was a good company. He said: "Of course, it's not all bad. Facebook overwhelmingly does good in the world."

All the underlined words in text I are adjectives, EXCEPT:

a) social
b) global
c) long
d) executive
e) former

Questão 10

(EPCAR/2018)

WHAT IS MODERN SLAVERY?

Slavery did not end with abolition in the 19th century. Slavery continues today and harms people in every country in the world.

Women forced into prostitution. People forced to work in agriculture, domestic work and factories. Children in sweatshops¹ producing goods sold globally. Entire families forced to work for nothing to pay off generational debts. Girls forced to marry older men.

There are estimated 40.3 million people in modern slavery around the world, including:

• 10 million children
• 24.9 million people in forced labour
• 15.4 million people in forced marriage
• 4.8 million people in forced sexual exploitation Someone is in slavery if they are:
• forced to work – through coercion, or mental or physical threat;
• owned or controlled by an ’employer’, through mental or physical abuse or the threat of abuse;
• dehumanised, treated as a commodity or bought and sold as ‘property’;
• physically constrained or have restrictions placed on their freedom of movement.

Slavery has been a disgraceful aspect of human society for most of human history. However, Anti- Slavery International has refused to accept that this bloody status quo should be allowed to persist (Aidan McQuade, former director).

Forms of modern slavery

Purposes of exploitation² can range from forced prostitution and forced labour to forced marriage and forced organ removal. Here are the most common forms of modern slavery.

• Forced labour – any work or services which people are forced to do against their will³ under the threat of some form of punishment.
• Debt bondage or bonded labour – the world’s most widespread form of slavery, when people borrow money they cannot repay and are required to work to pay off the debt, then losing control over the conditions of both their employment and the debt.
• Human trafficking– involves transporting, recruiting or harbouring people for the purpose of exploitation, using violence, threats or coercion.
• Descent-based slavery – where people are born into slavery because their ancestors were captured and enslaved; they remain in slavery by descent.
• Child slavery – many people often confuse child slavery with child labour, but it is much worse. Whilst⁴ child labour is harmful for children and hinders⁵ their education and development, child slavery occurs when a child is exploited for someone else’s gain. It can include child trafficking, child soldiers, child marriage and child domestic slavery.
• Forced and early marriage – when someone is married against their will and cannot leave the marriage. Most child marriages can be considered slavery.

Many forms of slavery have more than one element listed above. For example, human trafficking often involves advance payment for travel and a job abroad, using money often borrowed from the traffickers. Then, the debt contributes to control of the victims. Once they arrive, victims cannot leave until they pay off their debt.

Many people think that slavery happens only overseas, in developing countries. In fact, no country is free from modern slavery, even Britain. The Government estimates that there are tens of thousands people in modern slavery in the UK.

Modern slavery can affect people of any age, gender or race. However, contrary to a common misconception⁶ that everyone can be a victim of slavery, some groups of people are much more vulnerable to slavery than others.

People who live in poverty⁷ and have limited opportunities for decent work are more vulnerable to accepting deceptive job offers that can turn exploitative. People who are discriminated against on the basis of race, caste, or gender are also more likely to be enslaved. Slavery is also more likely to occur where the rule of law is weaker and corruption is rife.

Anti-Slavery International believes that we have to tackle⁸ the root causes of slavery in order to end slavery for good. That’s why we published our Anti- Slavery Charter, listing comprehensive measures that need to be taken to end slavery across the world.

(Adapted from https://www.antislavery.org/slavery-today/modern-slavery/)

Glossary:

1. sweatshop – a factory where workers are paid very little and work many hours in very bad conditions
2. exploitation – abuse, manipulation
3. will – wish, desire
4. whilst – while
5. to hinder – obstruct, stop
6. misconception – wrong idea/ impression
7. poverty – the condition of being extremely poor
8. to tackle – attack

Considering the use of possessive adjectives, mark the alternative that completes the sentence below correctly

Modern slavery includes

a) an employee who has its work abused.
b) children who have his lives affected.
c) a girl who has her marriage forced.
d) people who have your freedom restricted.

Questão 11

Escolha a variação de grau correta para completar a frase.

I thought it would take me 10 minutes to get to the park, but it actually took me only 5 minutes. It was _____________________ I thought.

a) more distant than
b) the most distant
c) as distant as
d) less distant than

Questão 12

Complete a frase com o comparativo de superioridade.

Ohio is ____________________ New Jersey.

a) more cold than
b) colder than
c) as cold as
d) less cold than

Veja também: Comparative and superlative

Carla Muniz

Professora, lexicógrafa, tradutora, produtora de conteúdos e revisora. Licenciada em Letras (Português, Inglês e Literaturas) pelas Faculdades Integradas Simonsen, em 2002 e formada em 1999 no Curso de Magistério (habilitação para lecionar na Educação Infantil e no Ensino Fundamental I).