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Grupos de padrões POS a testar
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Modais
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Need (verbo e nome), needs (verbo e nome), needed, needing
Had better,
Would rather
Supposed to
Would you mind
Have got to/ have to
Going to
Can como poder e saber
Note: some work has been done in this area. More needed.
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Verbos que ocorrem com modais
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abide, admit, afford, appeal, assure, cope (with), discern, fathom, guarantee, handle,
imagine, interact, resist, settle for, suffice, survive, tolerate,
ver Biber et all p. 490
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Verbo to be, become e outros verbos copulas
 ver Biber et all p. 435>
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Verbo to get
5. Verbos cognitivos como to know (saber/conhecer), to look (=seem), sound, smell, taste, feel
Note: some work has been done in this area. More needed.
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Verbos dizendi como to tell, to say
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Verbos polissémicos como to play, to run, to miss Note: a lot of work has been done with these verbs. But others
can be chosen
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Verbos be, have, do como auxiliares em tags ou do como pro-verb Note: some work has been done in this area.
More needed.
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Preposições
ver Downing & Locke, Spatial Reference, Time and Abstract Reference p. 599
10. Preposições complexas – ver Biber et al page75
11. Quantificadores (any, some, every, much, many, all, etc.)
– ver Biber et all p. 275>
12. Determinantes e semi-determinantes
– Biber et all p. 280>
13. Homógrafos como second, round, right
Exs:
a stream of pulses lasting 1 second (NOME)
A second (ADJ) exception to the parallelism between performance and temperature is a more
general one.
Second (ADV), incarnation stresses the pathway of weakness and even failure that is the pattern of
discipleship.
I second (VERBO) his nomination
14. Homógrafos –ing (nominal, verbal e adjectival)
 in the hope of getting a job building (VERBO) our railway bridge
 The building (ADJ) industry has today an appreciably larger number of men at work
 it is quite capable of spreading from one building to another
Note: some work has been done in this area. More needed.
15. Homógrafos -ed (verbal e adjectival)
 -ED simple past (pretérito perfeito)
The program generated files
 –ED past participle (particípio passado)
Family killed in fire
 –ED passive (passiva)
The family was killed in the fire.
 –ED adjective (adjectivo)
generated item
16. Comparativos e Superlativos (most)
17. Pronomes nas suas diferentes funções: sujeito, objecto, etc.
18. Construções Wh- Note: some work has been done in this area. More needed.
19. There + be, it + (seems) that
20. Nomes no plural (em início de frase)
21. SNs longos com vários adjectivos, etc. Note: some work has been done in this area. More needed.
22. Advérbios ever, often, much, still, yet, already, then e outros
23. Homógrafos advérbio-adjectivo como hard, long, direct, late, clean
ver Downing & Locke, p. 562
24. Homógrafos advérbio-preposição como above, across, abroad, along
ver Downing & Locke, p. 564 Note: some work has been done in this area. More needed.
25. Estruturas V+Vinf
A few new ideas:
Causative processes (See Downing & Locke p. 118, 14.6):
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make, render, turn, drive, have - in SVOC structures
Causative with one-participant processes: ergative pairs (See Downing & Locke p. 119-120, 14.7)
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burn, boil, burst, change, close, cook, drop, join, melt, move, open, run, shake, shut, stand, stretch, tighten,
turn
One-participant processes: containing a Subject which acts or is acted upon (See Downing &
Locke p.121-122, 15.1)
1) Words like burn, drink, cook, walk, talk turn = verbs (infinitive and present tense) or nouns (singular)
2) Words like drinks, cooks, walk, talks = verbs (present tense - 3rd person sing.) nouns (plural)
Note: they should avoid verbs preceded by 'to' and nouns preceded by articles.
3) -ing forms = progressive form of verb / noun usage / adjective usage
4) -ed forms = past tense / auxiliary + past participle / Past participle with adjectival function / passive
constructions
Prepositional verbs: see: http://www.hio.ft.hanze.nl/thar/grprepv.htm
Phrasal verbs - see: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/esl/eslphrasal.html and
http://www.eslcafe.com/pv/ and http://valenciaenglish.netfirms.com/phrasals00.htm#List of
phrasal verbs