Do you know what the notational problems of the Portuguese language are?
They concern the use of certain words and expressions that often generate doubts among language users. Notational issues are related to the spelling of some terms, especially those that have phonetic and orthographic similarities with other words.
In the oral modality, this kind of linguistic doubt does not make much difference in the production of meanings of the speech, but in the written modality the confusion can cause, in addition to the spelling deviation, problems related to semantics. Knowing well the writing of words positively influences the elaboration of the speech. See now the answers to five linguistic questions that are very common among speakers, but which can be easily answered. Good studies!
Notational issues of the Portuguese language
► Apart and apart:
aside, verb conjugation depart, which means break apart:
No aside the sheep in the pasture!
apart, adverbial phrase that means put aside:
Books for donation were placed apart.
► About / About / About / There are about:
About = about:
we talk about children for hours!
About = during, approximately:
We get stuck in traffic about two hours.
About = distance idea:
Do not stop now... There's more after the advertising ;)
Remain about two meters away from the lions.
There are about = exists approximately; approximately in the past:
There are about five hundred protesters gathered in the square.
There are about ten years ago we took a trip to Paris.
► While and in how much:
While is a conjunction and has the meaning of while:
While the students do not arrive, the teacher prepares the classroom.
While:preposition + pronoun with meaning of which; for how much:
► Instead of and instead of:
Rather than means in place of:
Rather than go to the mall, went to the amusement park with friends.
Rather than means on the contrary:
Rather than lower, inflation rose in the last quarter.
► Too much and more:
Too much can be indefinite pronoun meaning others:
You too much officials were dismissed from the meeting.
Adverb of intensity = overly:
the friends fight too much!
continuous word = other than that:
Too much, everything went within the normal range.
Too much is adjective phrase with meaning of much, opposing to any less:
We ate pizza too much.
By Luana Castro
Graduated in Letters
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PEREZ, Luana Castro Alves. "Notational problems in the Portuguese language"; Brazil School. Available in: https://brasilescola.uol.com.br/gramatica/problemas-notacionais-lingua-portuguesa.htm. Accessed on June 27, 2021.