Question

“We use the present simple to indicate things that happen all the time or repeatedly (it is about frequency - note the adverbs “sometimes”, “usually” and “regularly”)”. (KIMINAMI, 2018, p. 19).

KIMINAMI, Aline Yuri. Práticas Discursivas da Língua Inglesa. Maringá-Pr.: UniCesumar, 2018.

Read the following text of Karen’s routine:

“I am Karen, l usually wake up at seven o'clock and get up half past seven. I have a shower, I dress up and, after that, I have breakfast and brush my teeth. I go to school at eleven o'clock, I usually have lunch at two o'clock, I go home at six o'clock, I arrive home at half past six and I go to bed around ten o'clock”.

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Taking the excerpt into account and the information about the present simple tense, analyze the following statements.

I. The example text is adequately written because it describes Karen’s routine and it was written in the present simple tense, due to the verbs present in it.
II. The sentence “l usually wake up at seven o'clock and get up half past seven” is adequate written in the present simple tense because we can see the use of the adverb “usually” and the verb "wake up", without alterations, due to its subject.
III. The routine described in Karen’s text is adequate because according to Kiminami (2018), we use the present simple tense to talk about actions that happen repeatedly.
IV. The sentence “I have a shower, I dress up and, after that, I have breakfast and brush my teeth” is not adequate because the verbs used should have been written following the rules for the third person.

It is correct what is stated on:
Alternativas
Alternativa 1:
I and II, only.

Alternativa 2:
I, II and III only.

Alternativa 3:
I, II and IV, only.

Alternativa 4:
I, III and IV, only.

Alternativa 5:
I, II, III, IV.

Answer 1

It is correct what is stated on I, II and III only.

Analisando as afirmações, temos:

I. (V) O texto está escrito no tempo present simple, que é usado para descrever hábitos e rotinas.

II. (V) O uso do advérbio "usually" se dá quando queremos falar sobre algo que acontece tipicamente ou normalmente. No caso, o texto descreve um comportamento típico de Karen, que deve ser escrito no present simple.

III. (V) O uso do present simple é para ações que acontecem repetidamente, hábitos ou generalizações.

IV. (F) O sujeito da frase é "I", o que indica uso da primeira pessoa. Logo, os verbos estão escritos corretamente.

Resposta: alternativa 2