Here you can test if you know everything about graphic accents. Do the exercises and check the answers that were all commented on by our teachers.
question 1
(UEPG)
Free pass?
Tourists arriving in Boston, in the United States, have a pleasant surprise: a trip in the Silver Line, the bus corridor that connects the airport to the city center, is free. But the zero fare is only valid for those boarding at the airport: regular passengers pay $2.65. The idea is to give a kind of “welcome” to visitors. 7.5 thousand kilometers from Boston, the city of Agudos, in the interior of São Paulo, has a full free pass. Every month, the mayor invests R$ 120 thousand in the city's 16 bus network and that alone guarantees the displacement of the entire population.
“I consider zero fares possible in any city. But this is a measure that demands tax restructuring in the municipalities”, says Paulo Cesar Marques da Silva, a mobility specialist at the University of Brasília. The application of progressive taxes, whose rate increases according to the taxpayer's income, is a possibility. Another, according to Paulo, is “taxation for the use of the car, whether in public parking lots or for circulation”. Urban tolls became famous after its implementation in London: in ten years, it reduced the number of cars in the city center by 21%.
“We need collection models. Otherwise, the fare will always go up and, in the end, many people will stop using transport,” says João Cucci Neto, professor of traffic engineering at Mackenzie University. In addition to these subsidies, gasoline taxation, the contribution of industry and other enterprises that benefit from a good transport system are some possible models.Adapted from: Galileo, Mar/2016, ed. 296, p. 30.
About the graphic accenting of words pleasant, car and possible, Check what is correct.
a) Because the letter L at the end of words transfers the stress to the last syllable, it is necessary to mark graphically the stressed syllable of paroxytones ending in L, if this was not done, they could be read as words oxytones.
b) They are accentuated because they are L-ending proparoxytones.
c) They are accented because they are L-ending oxytones.
d) They are accented because they end in phonetic diphthong – eu.
e) They are accented because they are L-ending paroxytones.
Alternative e: They are accented because they are L-ending paroxytones.
According to the accentuation rules, the paroxytone words (those with the penultimate syllable stressed) receive acute accent when their stressed syllable has an open vowel and end in “l, n, r, x, s". This is the case of the words “a-gra-from the-vel, au-to-mobile and pos-yes-vel”, which respectively have open vowels “a, o and i” in the stressed syllable and end in “l”.
question 2
(IFSC-Adapted)
Text 1
Book
I get rid of that boring boy
With a book stuck up my nose
Pretending to find the story happy.
Source: MARIA, Selma. This this. São Paulo: Petrópolis, 2010. s/p.
Text 2
Available in: http://cantinhodebrincar-neidinha.blogspot.com.br/2011/06/tirinhas-de-hq-diversas.html. Access: 10 Aug. 2014.
Considering the position of the stressed syllable and the rules for accentuating the words, mark the CORRECT alternative:
a) The words "boy", "story", "happy" and "nose", from Text 1, are proparoxytone words, and "book", "dictionary", "finish" and "never", from Text 2, are oxytone words.
b) The words "history" from Text 1 and "dictionary" from Text 2 were correctly accented, but have different accentuation rules because the first is considered paroxytone and the second, proparoxytone.
c) The word “history”, from Text 1, is a proparoxytone word and is correctly accented; and “you”, from Text 2, is an oxytone word and should be accented in the same way as “coffee”, “dendê”.
d) The words “nose” and “happy” from Text 1 should be accented as well as the words “finish”, “read”, “thick” and “never”, from Text 2, which should be given a circumflex accent.
e) The words “history”, from Text 1, and “dictionary”, from Text 2, should not be accented because acute accents are no longer part of Brazilian Portuguese.
Alternative c: The word “history” from Text 1 is a proparoxytone word and is correctly accented; and “you”, from Text 2, is an oxytone word and should be accented in the same way as “coffee”, “dendê”.
“History” (historyoh-ri-a) is accented because it is a proparoxytone word (antepenultimate stressed syllable) and all proparoxytones are accented.
“You” (you-you) is accented because it is an oxytone word (stressed last syllable) that ends in a closed vowel “e”. All oxytone words ending in closed vowels “e, o”, followed or not by “s” are accented.
question 3
(Cesgranrio) Point to the only series in which at least one word has an error with regard to graphic accentuation:
a) footprint - synonymy
b) exodus - perfect
c) albums - attract him
d) pace – items
e) redeem it - free
Alternative e: redeem it – free.
"Redeem it" (re-di-mi) is an oxytone word that is not accented. Oxytone words combined with the pronouns -lo (s), -la (s) are accented only when they end with the stressed open vowel “a”. In this case, the word ends in “i”, which is why it should not be accented (re-di-mi).
"Free" (gra-tis) is a paroxytone word that presents in its stressed syllable the open vowel “a” and ending in “s”, which is why it is accented. According to the rule, paroxytones whose stressed syllable contains an open vowel (free) and which end in -r,-x-,-n,-l and -s are stressed (free).
question 4
(IFAL)
On the brink of extinction, a bird that comes out stabbed has a rare chance of recovering in the wild.
The stabbed skirt (the name refers to the red spot on the bird's chest, which resembles a “stab”) is a four-inch sympathetic bird with white and gray plumage. The nickname, which originally referred only to the appearance of the species, now serves well as a symbolic indication of the danger that the exit passes through: estimates indicate that there are only 50 of them in nature. To protect it, NGOs and government environmental agencies are fighting for the creation of a 5,000-hectare forest reserve in the mountainous region of Espírito Santo.
Stabbed leaves live in flocks and feed on small insects and fruits. It lives high up in the forests of the Atlantic Forest, and that is its biggest weakness, since 90% of this vegetation was destroyed by man. The bird, which was also found in Minas Gerais, can only be seen in Espírito Santo today.
“Extinction is associated with the secular destruction of the Atlantic Forest, because the species only survives in very well-preserved forests”, says biologist Edson Ribeiro Luiz, project coordinator at the SAVE Brazil, NGO linked to Bird Life International, which focuses on the protection of Brazilian birds. "In Espírito Santo territory, where there is only one block of preserved vegetation, they tend to be isolated."
The fight to protect the bird gained momentum last month, when the Avistar, the country's main birding event, took place in the state. With its symbol stabbed in the exit, the party was the missing incentive for the Institute State for the Environment (IEMA) to establish the deadline of March 2016 for the constitution of the reservation. The final decision, however, remains in the hands of the government. (Available in: http://veja.abril.com.br/noticia/ciencia/ambientalistaspressionam-governo-capixaba-a-proteger-ave-sairaapunhalada. Accessed on 11/13/2015. Adapted text)
For word stress, mark the true statement.
a) The word “tend” should be graphically accentuated, like “also” and “however”.
b) The words “saiira”, “destroyed” and “there” are accentuated for the same reason.
c) The name “Luiz” should be graphically accented, for the same reason as the word “country”.
d) The words “is”, “already” and “only” are accented because they constitute closed stressed monosyllables.
e) They are accentuated “sympathetic”, “centimeters”, “symbolic” because all paroxytones are accentuated.
Alternative b: The words “saiira”, “destroyed” and “there” are accentuated for the same reason.
All of the above words are hiatus - meeting vowels in different syllables: sa-í-ra, destroy-í-da, a-í. According to the rule, the stressed “i” is accented when it stands alone in a syllable, or accompanied with the letter “s”, and forms a hiatus with the previous vowel.
question 5
(IFSC)
Regarding the graphic accentuation of words in the text, it is CORRECT to state:
a) The word for (fifth square) should have received a differential accent because it is a verbal form.
b) The word congratulations (third square) receives a differential accent because it is in the plural.
c) The word me (first square) should have received an accent, as it is a stressed monosyllable ending in e.
d) The accent on the word é (third square) can be classified as differential, because there is no rule to justify its use.
e) The word great (third square) is accented because it is proparoxytone.
Alternative e: The word great (third square) is accented because it is proparoxytone.
All proparoxytone words, without exception, are accented. Proparoxytones are words whose third to last syllable is stressed.
question 6
(UEPG)
The poetry of a B.O.
It is not new that Justice appeals to literature to air the formal discourse of its documents and protocols, which are generally sober and full of technical language. If judges and lawyers have already practiced literary language during working hours, now it was the Minas Gerais police's turn to take a chance on rhymes.
In the city of Contagem, in the metropolitan region of Belo Horizonte, a police officer used verses to tell the story of a father who was trying to take his son out of the criminal world. The record dealt with the return of an irregular weapon, which was discovered by the father in the boy's house. Afraid that the young man would be arrested, the father called the police to indicate where he would leave the weapon. The policeman described the return as follows: “We collected the weapon without force or resistance / The old man complied with the deal / Without spending an insistence; / The old man I never saw again / He must be around”.
According to the Minas Gerais PM's press office, the military man, whose name was not disclosed, disrespected the technique of drafting military documents, which could result in him being punished.
Adapted from: Metaphor Magazine. February 2013, issue 16, page 09.
With regard to accentuation, mark what is correct.
a) All proparoxytone words are accented, although not every accented word is necessarily proparoxytone.
b) The words "resistance" and "insistence" are classified as paroxytone words ending in crescent diphthongs.
c) As for the position of the stressed syllable, the words "literature", "judges" and "advisory" are classified as paroxytone words.
d) The words "boy", "policeman" and "may" are oxytone, but only the last word is graphically accented, as it is an oxytone ending in "a".
All are correct:
a) All proparoxytone words are accented, although not every accented word is necessarily proparoxytone, because there are also paroxytone and oxytone words that are also accented. The simplest accentuation rule is that of proparoxytone words, since all of them are accented, without exception;
b) The words "resistance" and "insistence" are classified as paroxytone words ending in crescent diphthongs, because the stressed syllable is the penultimate syllable of these words: re-sis-have-cia, in-sis-have-cia.
Remembering that diphthong is the vowel meeting of vowel and semivowel in the same syllable. When the vowel comes first, the diphthong is decreasing, but when it comes after the semivowel (i, u), the diphthong is increasing, as in the words re-sis-tên-cwas going and in-sis-ten-cwas going;
c) As for the position of the stressed syllable, the words "literature", "judges" and "advisory" are classified as paroxytone words, because the stressed syllables of all of them are the penultimate ones: li-te-ra-you-ha, ju-í-zes and ses-so-laugh-The;
d) The words "boy", "policeman" and "may" are oxytone, but only the last word is graphically accented, as it is an oxytone ending in "a".
Words classified as oxytone are those whose last syllable is stressed (ra-peace, po-li-ci-al and po-give. According to the graphic stress rule, oxytone words are accented when they end in open vowels “a, e, o”, followed or not by “s”.
question 7
(IFSC) Tick the CORRECT alternative for graphic accentuation.
a) Here there is a lot of cashew from May to September.
b) At the pace we were walking, it would take us all morning to cover two leagues.
c) To keep them healthy it is better to feed them raw vegetables.
d) Joel had ill-defined biceps and exaggerated chest for someone so short.
e) The judge ordered him to return with interest to the public coffers all the embezzled money.
Alternative c: To keep them healthy it's better to feed them raw vegetables.
keep them, because it is an oxytone word (last syllable is stressed: man-you) and, according to the rule of accentuation of oxytones, when the words end in a closed vowel “e” and are conjugated with the pronouns -lo (s), la (s), as seen in this case, they carry an accent circumflex;
healthy, because it is a paroxytone word (penultimate syllable is stressed: sau-from the-bles) and, according to the rule of accentuation of paroxytones, words whose stressed syllable contain open vowel “a” and end in “l” are accented (sau-from the-vel), and the same happens when they change to the plural (sau-from the-able);
feed them, because it is an oxytone word (last syllable is stressed: a-li-men-OK) and, according to the rule of accentuation of oxytones, when the words end in open vowel "a" and are conjugated with the pronouns -lo (s), la (s), as it turns out in this case, they have an acute accent.
question 8
(UFPR) Check the alternative in which all words are accented because they are oxytone:
a) jacket, grandfather, shaman, coffee, jiló
b) congratulations, come, hyphen, leave, oasis
c) you, capilé, Paraná, pencil, ruler
d) amen, lovely, filo, but beyond
e) I fell, there, magnet, ipe, apricot
Alternative to: jacket, grandfather, shaman, coffee, jiló.
All of the above words are oxytone, that is, the stressed syllable of all of them is the last: pa-le-oh, a-Grandma, pa-already, ca-faith, ji-hello. According to the rules of accentuation of oxytones, oxytone words ending in open vowels “a, e, o” are given an acute accent (pa-le-oh, pa-already, ca-faith, ji-hello), while the oxytone words ending in closed vowels "e, o" are given a circumflex accent (a-Grandma).
question 9
(Cesgranrio) Tick the option where the words obey the same graphic accentuation rule:
a) feet, guests
b) sulfur, distance
c) phosphorescence, comes from
d) last, terrible
e) satanic, however
Alternative b: sulfur, distance.
The words “sulfide, distance” are proparoxytones (stressed syllable is the third to last syllable of each one of them: sul-fu-re-a, dis-tan-ci-a).
According to the accentuation rules, all proparoxytone words are accented.
question 10
(Mackenzie) Indicate the alternative where no words are graphically accented:
a) pencil, canoe, pineapple, young
b) bad, alone, that one, betrayed
c) saudade, onyx, degree, orchid
d) flight, league, like, tennis
e) flowers, sugar, albumen, virus
Alternative b: bad, alone, that one, cheated.
Bad (ru-im) - is an oxytone word (stressed last syllable) that is not stressed for two reasons: 1) because it has the vowel “i” in the stressed syllable and it is accompanied by a vowel, but it is not in the same syllable as it, that is, it does not make a diphthong and 2) because it makes a syllable with the consonant “m”;
By myself (only-zi-nho) - is a paroxytone word (penultimate stressed syllable) for which there is no stress rule;
That one (The-what-le) - is a paroxytone word (penultimate stressed syllable) for which there is no stress rule;
betrayed (tra-u) - is an oxytone word (last stressed syllable), whose stressed syllable is formed by the diphthong (meeting of non-separating vowels) “iu” and comes after the vowel “a”. Whenever the stressed diphthongs “iu” and “ui” come after a vowel, they are not accented.
The accented words of the remaining alternatives are:
a) pencil
c) onyx, orchid
d) league, tennis
e) sugar, album, virus
question 11
(Cesgranrio) Point to the only series in which at least one word has an error with regard to graphic accentuation:
a) footprint - synonymy
b) exodus - perfect
c) albums - attract you
d) rhythm - items
e) redeem it - free
Alternative e: redeem it - free.
redeem her (re-di-mi-la) is not accented, because the oxytone words (last stressed syllable) that are accented when conjugated with the pronouns -lo (s), -la (s) are those that end in vowel "a", and in this case, the word ends in “i”.
Free (gra-tis) is correctly accented, because it is a paroxytone word (penultimate stressed syllable) that has in its stressed syllable the open vowel “a” ending in -s.
question 12
(PUC-Campinas) Mark the alternative with the word correctly accented:
a) hyphen
b) item
c) items
d) rhythm
e) n.d.a
Alternative to: hyphen.
The word "hyphen" is paroxytone, which means that its stressed syllable is the penultimate (hi-fen). Thus, according to the rule, paroxytone words that contain in the stressed syllable the open vowels “a, e, i, o, u” and end in “l, n, r, x, s” are accentuated. This is the case of “free”, which has an open vowel “a” and ends in “s”.
question 13
(UFF) Only in a series below are all the words correctly accented. Tick it:
a) fast, thirst, cut
b) pineapple, interim, specimen
c) crown, vatapá, automobile
d) committed, peach, widower
e) pencil, queen, color
Alternative b: pineapple, interim, specimen.
Ananas (a-N-A-in the), because it is an oxytone, that is, a word whose last syllable is stressed. According to the rule, the oxytone words ending in an open vowel “a, e, o”, followed or not by “s” are accented, as in this case.
Interim (in-te-kidney) and specimen (is-foot-ci-me), because they are proparoxytones, that is, words whose third to last syllable is stressed. According to the rules, all proparoxytone words - without exception - are accented.
question 14
(UFSCar) These magazines they ___, ___ short articles and headlines that all ___.
a) read - have - see
b) read - have - come
c) read - have - see
d) read - have - come
e) read - have - see
Alternative c: read - have - see.
read (read-in) and come (see-em) are not accented because the caret is not used in paroxytone words (penultimate syllable stressed) that in their stressed syllable have a closed hiatus (vocal meeting that separates) and that end with "in".
Has is accentuated, because the forms of the verbs “to have” and “to come” in the third personal plural of the present tense have a circumflex accent.
question 15
(UFJF) The words are grouped by the same accentuation rule in:
a) is, only, until
b) also, through, there
c) involuntary, hermetic, replaceable
d) arrogance, inconsistency, mystery
e) arbitrary, water, transpose it
Alternative d: arrogance, inconsistency, mystery.
The words above are proparoxytones (the antepenultimate syllable is stressed) and, according to the rules of the Portuguese language, all the proparoxytone words are accented (ar-ro-gang-ci-a, in-con-sis-have-hi-a, mis-you-River).
question 16
(PUC-Campinas) Check the series in which all the words are written in accordance with the current norms of graphic accentuation:
a) item, judges, jury, cortex, wizard
b) Luís, virus, electron, hyphens, spirit
c) spontaneous, taxi, initial, blessing, appease
d) through, intent, albums, smallpox, sauna
e) dollar, zebu, rhythm, attract you, bungalow
Alternative d: through, intention, albums, smallpox, sauna.
Through (a-tra-see), because it is an oxytone (stressed last syllable) ending in an open vowel “e”;
Intuition (in-you-to), because it is a paroxytone (penultimate stressed syllable), but as a diphthong form (the vowels “ui” do not separate) it should not be accented - if they split, it should be accented;
albums (there-buns), because it is a paroxytone that has the vowel “a” in the stressed syllable and ends in “uns”;
Smallpox (go-laugh-o-la), proparoxytone because all proparoxytones (antepenultimate stressed syllable), without exception, are accented;
Steam room (I'm sorry-na), because it is a paroxytone (penultimate stressed syllable), but as a diphthong form (the “au” vowels don't separate) it shouldn't be accented - if they split, it should be accented.
Correction of remaining alternatives:
a) item, judges, jury, cortex, mage
b) Luís, virus, electron, hyphens, spirit
c) spontaneous, taxi, initial, blessing, appease
e) dollar, zebu, rhythm, attract you, bungalow
question 17
(Unifenas) The same accentuation rule that applies to fast, also applies to:
a) mutable, we would be, comma, admissible
b) comma, symbolic, symbol, hieroglyphics
c) spelling, colleges, egyptian, language
d) basic, difficult, schools, language
e) Portuguese, English, symbols, language
Alternative b: comma, symbolic, symbol, hieroglyphics.
All of the above words are proparoxytones, that is, its most stressed syllable is the antepenultimate one (come over-gu her, yes-bo-li-ca, yea-wh-lo, hi-and-ro-glyphs). In Portuguese, all proparoxytones are accented.
question 18
(UTFPR) In which alternative should all words in bold be graphically accented?
The) Through of a municipal law, several people receive tickets free for the cinema.
b) It is difficult run back of I hurt alone.
ç) On here, in Foz do Iguazu, the dengue it is being a big problem of public health.
of great grandson crossed out the little papers like pencil.
e) The pattern economic of judge is high.
Alternative a: Through a municipal law, several people receive free movie tickets.
Through (a-tra-see), because it is an oxytone word (last stressed syllable) that ends in an open vowel “e”. All oxytones in this situation, whether or not followed by “s”, are accented.
Free (gra-tis), because it is a paroxytone word (penultimate stressed syllable) that has an open “a” vowel and ends in “s”. All paroxytones that have any of the open vowels in their stressed syllable and that end in “l, n, r, x, s” are accented.
Correction of remaining alternatives:
b) It is difficult run back of prejudiceby myself.
ç) herei, in Foz do Iguazu, the dengue it is being a big problem of healthpublic.
of great grandson crossed out the little papers like pencil.
e) The pattern economic of judge is high.
question 19
(UDESC) Analyze the statements regarding the recommendations of the cultured standard on graphic accentuation.
I-So much he imagined what was going to happen, that he came to believe it and see it.
II-Soon after, he went in the direction of Largo da Carioca, to get into a tilburi.
III - The idea of being discovered seemed more and more plausible to him.
IV-Camilo himself recognized that he could serve her for an eternity.
V - The same suspension of your visits only with the futile pretext, brought you pain.
Check the correct alternative.
a) Only statements II and IV are true.
b) Only statements I and III are true.
c) Only statements I and II are true.
d) Only statements III, IV and V are true.
e) All statements are true.
Alternative c: Only statements I and II are true.
I-So much he imagined what was going to happen, that he came to believe it and see it.
II-Soon after, he went in the direction of Largo da Carioca, to get into a tilburi.
believe it (believe) and see him (see) they are oxytone words (stressed last syllable) ending in a closed vowel “e” and, according to the accentuation rules, they must be accented when conjugated with the pronouns -lo (s), -la (s).
Tiburi (Til-bu-ri) is a proparoxytone word (antepenultimate stressed syllable) and, according to the accentuation rules, all proparoxytones must be accented.
question 20
(Insper)
The following text is taken from the section “Barbara responds”, in which the irreverent journalist proposes to “clarify” readers' doubts. She read it carefully.
GRAMMATICAL RIGHTEOUSNESS
“I learned that oxytones ending in ‘i’ and ‘u’ are not accented. But what about that bank whose name is oxytone and ends in accented 'u', why can he?" Pasquala Pascacia
I know I know. I mean that you attended the oxytone class, but missed the one that taught that everyone does what they want with their own name, right, madam?(Folha Magazine, 03/25/2007)
Analyzing the reader's question and the journalist's answer, and considering the official rules of graphic accent, it is possible to conclude that
a) The word in question — Itaú — is not oxytone, but proparoxytone. According to current graphic accentuation rules, all proparoxytones are accented.
b) Although the word is really oxytone, the reason why it is accented is another: the letters “i” and “u” are accentuated when they form tonic gaps, alone or accompanied by “s”.
c) This is an exception to the rule. The same happens with the word “Pacaembú”.
d) The journalist's answer is correct, since a similar fact occurs with the spelling of her name, which should have an acute accent: Barbara.
e) The word receives an acute accent because it is a paroxytone ending in “u”.
Alternative b: Although the word is really oxytone, the reason it is accented is another: the letters “i” and “u” are accented when they form tonic gaps, alone or accompanied by “s”.
This is the case of the word Itaú (I-ta-ú), which is an oxytone word, that is, its last syllable is stressed. In addition, “Itaú” has a hiatus, which is a vowel cluster that separates (in this case, a-u) and, for this reason, the word must be stressed. Other examples are chest (ba-ú) and country (to-is).
question 21
(Cesgranrio) Tick the option where the words obey the same graphic accentuation rule:
a) you will have / clear
b) necessary / you will see
c) gives you / needed
d) fire / also
e) extraordinary / fire
Alternative e: extraordinary / fire.
"Extraordinary and fire" are proparoxytones (ex-tra-or-di-at-laughs, in-scene-di-o), that is, they are words whose third to last syllable is stressed. Thus, they are accented, because there is no exception, all proparoxytones in the Portuguese language are accented.
question 22
(Fuvest) Check the option where all words are correctly accented:
a) Tietê, organ, little hat, star, adverb
b) fluid, jelly, tatuí, warehouse, character
c) health, watermelon, free, peanuts, fluid
d) english, vine, coffee, useful, defendant
e) canoe, heroism, believe, Sergipe, bamboo
Alternative b: fluid, jelly, tatuí, warehouse, character.
Fluid (flow-do) is a paroxytone word (penultimate syllable is stressed), there being no rule to justify its accentuation;
Jelly (ge-law-a) is a paroxytone word that should not be accented. This is because the diphthongs (meeting of vowels that do not separate) are not accentuated, represented by “hey, oi” of the stressed syllables of the paroxytones, as in the case of jelly. Remembering that before the new spelling deal, jelly was accentuated;
tatuí (Armadillo-í) is an oxytone word (last syllable is stressed) that must be accented, because it comes after a vowel, with which it does not use a diphthong;
Storage (weapon-zem) is an oxytone word that must be accented because it ends in the nasal diphthong “in”;
Character (here-frog-ter) is a paroxytone word that must be accented because it has the open vowel “a” in the stressed syllable and ends in “r”.
Correction of remaining alternatives:
a) Tietê, organ, little hat, star, adverb
c) health, watermelon, free, peanuts, fluid
d) English, vine, coffee, useful, defendant
e) canoe, heroism, creem, Sergipe, bamboo
question 23
(Mackenzie) Check the only alternative where no words are graphically accented:
a) bonus, tennis, that virus
b) cabbage, horse, onyx, grade
c) judge, miss, like, flowers
d) yeast, character, condor, yesterday
e) cashew, virus, nickel, eclogue
Alternative c: judge, miss, like, flowers.
The words judge (ju-iz) and so (as-yea) are oxytones, that is, the last syllable of both is stressed.
The words saudade (sau-gives-de) and flowers (flo-res) are paroxytones, that is, the penultimate syllable of both is stressed.
In none of the words above there are rules that justify its accentuation.
Correction of remaining alternatives:
a) bonus, sneakers, that one, virus
b) cabbage, horse, onyx, grade
d) yeast, character, condor, yesterday
e) cashew, virus, nickel, eclogue
question 24
(PUC-Rio) Point out the option where the two words are accented due to the same rule:
a) I left - it hurts
b) watch - own
c) only - suns
d) gives - it will cost
e) up to - foot
Alternative b: clock - own.
The words “clock and proper” are proparoxytone, since the third to last syllable of both is the stressed syllable (re-hello-I gave it, pro-pri-a). According to the rules, all proparoxytones, without exception, are accentuated.
question 25
(IFSC) For spelling and accents, tick the CORRECT alternative.
a) After a commanding gesture, those who are still standing sit down and make silence to hear the director.
b) Even if we suffered a reprimand for the complaint of some teacher more jealous of his duties, the offer seemed to us to be irrefutable.
c) Marta never leaves her son alone in the kitchen, fearful that he will put a pot on her.
d) With the exception of my cousin, who was a bit pretentious, all the boys were quite humble.
e) The expert would analyze the arrow, looking for traces that could provide clues about its trajectory.
Alternative e: The forensics would analyze the arrow, looking for traces that could provide clues about its trajectory.
The words accented in the sentence above are proparoxytones (pe-laugh-c-a, dress-you-I gave them, in-give-ci-them, costume-oh-laughs). According to the accentuation rules of the Portuguese language, all proparoxytone words are accented.
Correction of remaining alternatives:
a) After a commanding gesture, those who are still standing sit down and are silent to listen to the director.
b) Even if we suffered a reprimand for the complaint of some teacher more conscientious of his duties, the offer seemed to us to be irrefutable.
c) Marta never leaves her son alone in the kitchen, fearful that he will pull a pan over her.
d) With the exception of my cousin, who was a bit pretentious, all the boys were quite humble.
question 26
(IFSC)
The Baker
I get up early, do my ablutions, put the kettle on to make coffee, and open the apartment door – but I don't find the usual bread. At the same moment I remember reading something in the newspapers the day before about the “stale bread strike”. Besides, it's not really a strike, it's a lockout, employers' strike, who suspended night work; they think that by forcing the people to eat their breakfast with stale bread they will get something from the government.
It's ok. I have my coffee with stale bread, which isn't that bad. And as I drink coffee, I am reminded of a modest man I once knew. When he came to leave the bread at the door of the apartment, he pressed the bell, but, so as not to disturb the residents, he warned by shouting:
– It's nobody, it's the baker!
I questioned him once: how had he come up with the idea of screaming that?
"So you're nobody?"
He opened a wide smile. He explained that he had learned it by ear. It had often happened to him that he had rung the bell of a house and was attended by a maid or someone else, and heard a voice from inside asking who it was; and hear the person who had attended him say to the inside: “It's nobody, no lady, it's the baker”. That way he had learned that he was nobody...
He told me this without any regret, and said goodbye still smiling. I didn't want to stop him to explain that he was talking to a colleague, albeit a less important one. At that time I too, like the bakers, did the night work. It was at dawn that he left the newspaper office, almost always after a visit to the workshop - and often he left already carrying one of the first rotated copies in his hand, the newspaper still warm from the machine, like bread straight out of the oven.
Ah, I was a boy, I was a boy then! And sometimes I thought I was important because in the newspaper I took home, in addition to reports or notes I had written without signing, there was a chronicle or article with my name on it. Newspaper and bread would be very early at the door of every home; and within my heart I received the lesson of humility from that man among all useful and among all joyful; "it's nobody, it's the baker!"
And whistled up the stairs.
BRAGA, Reuben. The Baker. In: ANDRADE, Carlos Drummond de; SABINO, Fernando; CAMPOS, Paulo Mendes; BRAGA, Reuben. To enjoy reading: v. 1. Chronicles. 12th ed. São Paulo: Attica, 1982. p.63 - 64.
Consider the words below, which appear accented in the text, and mark the only alternative in which the word's accent is correctly justified.
a) “nobody”: paroxytone ending in em.
b) “stop it”: oxytone ending in o.
c) “machine”: differential accent.
d) “saía”: paroxytone ending in diphthong.
e) “there”: stressed monosyllable ending in a.
Alternative e: “la”: stressed monosyllable ending in a.
The stressed monosyllables ending in “a, as, e, es, o, os, éu, éus, éi, éis, oi, ois” must be accented, as is the case with the word “there”.
Remembering that stressed monosyllables are words formed by only one syllable pronounced with force.
question 27
(IFSC)
Read the comic below, in which the characters Mafalda, Susanita and Filipe talk
Available in http://titinhasfilosoficas.blogspot.com.br
Accessed on October 31, 2016.
Considering the text, tick (T) for the correct alternatives and (F) for the false ones.
( ) There is a deviation from the standard written rule in relation to the graphic accent in “[…] who are blond, beautiful and have a car”.
( ) In “It's the stupidest question I've ever heard in my life, Susanita” and “What do you want to ask, Susanita?”, the highlighted terms have the same syntactic function.
( ) In the second panel, Susanita wants to know when Mafalda asked about the world and wars.
( ) In the last comic, Susanita compares workers in her country with North Americans.
Check the alternative that contains the CORRECT sequence of responses, from top to bottom.
a) V, F, V, F
b) F, V, F, V
c) V, V, F, V
d) F, F, V, V
e) V, V, F, F
Alternative c: V, V, F, V.
There is a deviation from the standard written rule in relation to the graphic accent in “[…] who are blond, beautiful and have a car”.
TRUE, because the word “have” was missing, which must always be written when referring to the third person plural of the present tense.
In “It's the dumbest question I've ever heard, Susanita” and “What do you want to ask, Susanita?” the highlighted terms have the same syntactic function.
TRUE, because both have are vocatives, since they have the function of calling or addressing someone (in this case, the character Susanita).
In the second comic, Susanita wants to know when Mafalda asked about the world and wars.
FALSE, because Susanita's intention is only to question Mafalda if the questions she asks are also considered stupid, as she has just stated about Susanita's questions.
In the last comic, Susanita compares the workers in her country with the North Americans.
TRUE, because it is clear in Susanita's phrase “in this country the workers … like those in the USA.
For you to understand better:
- Emphasis Rules
- Graphic accentuation
- stressed syllable
