Portuguese Verb Regimes: A Comprehensive Guide

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Portuguese Verb Regimes

Verbs

ASPIRAR (to breathe in, inhale) = VTD

How good it is to breathe in fresh mountain air!

How good to sniff it.

ASPIRAR (to desire, want) = VTI + (preposition)

Many aspire to the position of judge.

Note

The pronoun “it” can only be used for things, not people. For example:

  • Many aspire to you = WRONG
  • Many aspire to it = CORRECT

ASSISTIR (to watch, see) = VTI + (preposition)

I watched the Palmeiras games.

Note

It admits the pronoun “them.”

  • Watched them = WRONG
  • I saw them = CORRECT

ASSISTIR

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Educational Resources and Historical Insights

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Curso 2019-2020

OPCIÓN A —> Lost and Found

OPCIÓN B —> The Real History behind Game of Thrones

OPCIÓN A —> A New BBC Period Drama

OPCIÓN B —> The Carbon Footprint of your Inbox

OPCIÓN A —> Emojis and Food Allergies

OPCIÓN B —> The Worst Hotel in the World

Curso 2020-2021

OPCIÓN A —> Is the Full Stop no Longer Necessary?

OPCIÓN B —> Women Spies during World War II

OPCIÓN A —> The Special Olympics

OPCIÓN B —> Students Vote and Work the Polls, Despite

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English Language Proficiency Exams: Past Papers and Solutions (2017-2024)

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Curso 2017-2018

OPCIÓN A: Selfie Accidents

  1. a) FALSE: “It is almost twice as deadly as being killed by a shark.”
    b) TRUE: “There is, however, some evidence that there may be other selfie-related deaths that we don’t know about because they didn’t make international headlines.”
  2. a) Why do certain people want to take some shocking selfies?
    People take risks to snap a selfie because they want to put it on Facebook or Twitter, or any other social network in order to become popular.
    b) Has
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Embarking on Your IT Journey: A Graduation Speech for Future Tech Leaders

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Graduation Speech – Dual Education 2024

Embracing the IT Journey

A Message to Our Graduates

President, director, family, and friends of the graduates, and above all,

Dear graduates,

I consider it a great honor to be invited to speak to you today. After your three-year study, you have finally obtained your diplomas, along with a certificate in the field of “Fachinformatiker” from the Slovak-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry, also valid in Germany.

You have spent time at our offices, and I have

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Essential Phrasal Verbs and Idioms

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A

– a chance in a million
– a great deal
– a matter of time
– a means (of / to)
– a piece of cake
– a second chance
– accomplish
– accomplished
– accomplishment
– account
– achieve a goal
– activist
– afford
– affordable
– afraid of
– agree to
– agree with
– all the way to
– amused
– ancestor
– ancient
– annoyed
– annoying
– appeal to
– approach
– arrive at
– arrive in
– ashamed
– assignment
– at all costs
– at the latest
– attach
– award
– aware of
– awesome
– balance a budget
– ban
– based on
– (be) worth a fortune
– beat
– believe in
–

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Modernism in Literature: Exploring the Stream of Consciousness and Psychological Depth

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A. The structure of the English novel remained unaltered till the second decade of the 20th century. Its origins were essentially bourgeois and the themes were mainly social according to the values accepted by the society of the time. The novelist was expected to mediate between his characters and the reader, telling significant events in chronological order. B. The shift from the Victorian to the modern novel was caused by a gradual transformation of British society, which in a few years passed

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