GENITIVE CASE

TEXT COMPREHENSION 03. (ESPCEX) According to the text, Obama

Text I: a) is not trying to solve the mass shootings problem.
PRESIDENT OBAMA LAUNCHES GUN-VIOLENCE TASK FORCE b) is not worried about gun violence.
Five days after deadliest elementary school shooting in U.S. c) was on vacation during the shooting.
history, President Obama said his administration plans immediate
d) requests a task force to try to solve the problem.
action early next year on proposals to curb an “epidemic of gun
violence”. At a morning news conference, Obama announced the e) decides to take action after talking to the reporter.
formation of a task force to be headed by Vice President Joe Biden
that will formulate a package of policy recommendations by January. 04. (ESPCEX) In the sentences “... proposals to curb an “epidemic of
“The fact that this problem is complex can no longer be an excuse for gun violence”...” and “an array of steps to curb gun violence...”, the
doing nothing”, Obama said. “The fact that we can’t prevent every word curb means
act of violence doesn’t mean that we can’t steadily reduce the violence a) control.
and prevent the very worst violence.” The president said he intends
b) cultivate.
to push for implementation of the proposals “without delay”. “This is
a team that has a very specific task to pull together real reforms right c) increase.
now”, he said. While Obama did not offer specifics, he suggested d) encourage.
the task force would examine an array of steps to curb gun violence e) originate.
and prevent mass shootings, including legislative measures, mental
health resources and a “look more closely at a culture that all-too Text II:
often glorifies guns and violence”. “I will use all the powers of this
office to help advance efforts aimed at preventing more tragedies like Is ‘Facebook’, the social networking website, making us narcissist?
this”, Obama said. Obama made similar pronouncements following A new book argues we’re much more self-absorbed nowadays, stating
at least four other mass shootings that marked his first term. But few that technology is to blame. I tweet, therefore I am. Or is it, I tweet,
policy changes were made. “This is not the first incident of horrific therefore I aminsufferable? As if adult celebrities that pop out on the
gun violence of your four years. Where have you been?”, asked ABC red carpets weren’t clue enough, we now have statistical evidence
News’ Jake Tapper. “I’ve been president of the United States, dealing that we are a lot more in love with ourselves than we used to be. This
with the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, an auto social phenomenon has raised fields of research to academic studies
industry on the verge of collapse, two wars. I don’t think I’ve been on nowadays. In the book ‘The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age
vacation”, Obama responded. of Entitlement’, Jean M. Twenge, a professor of psychology at San
Adaptado de http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/president-obamalaunches-gun-
Diego State University, and W. Keith Campbell, a social psychologist at
violence-task-force/story?id=18015694#UOA3AOTAdyw the University of Georgia, look to the Narcissistic Personality Inventory,
which measures self-regard, materialism, and lack of empathy. They
found that the number of college students scoring high on the test
01. (ESPCEX) In the sentence “The fact that this problem is complex has risen by 30 percent since the early 1980’s.
can no longer be an excuse for doing nothing...”, this problem refers to
a) task force. 05. (IME) What kind of human behavior is central to the study
mentioned in the text?
b) economic crisis.
a) The alienation of the celebrities from the others around them.
c) police recommendations.
b) Addiction to technology.
d) an array of steps.
c) The high scoring of college students in academic tests.
e) gun violence.
d) The hard work of social psychologists.
02. (ESPCEX) In the sentence “This is a team that has a very specific e) Excessive positive feelings and admiration of oneself.
task …”, who is the leader of this team?
a) the press. 06. (IME) What has NOT been encouraging people to act the way
described in the text?
b) Jake Tapper.
a) Technology.
c) Joe Biden.
b) Narcissism.
d) the task force.
c) Materialism.
e) ABC channel.
d) Psychology.
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Text III:
MARCH OF THE MACHINES EXERCÍCIOS DE
We built lots of little robots on wheels. We gave them “eyes” to see
with, a tiny brain to learn with – the same sort that humans have, but
much less powerful. And the rest we let them find out for themselves.
FIXAÇÃO
We didn’t programme them; we didn’t give them instructions. And
what did they do in the new world they found themselves in? Like 01. (EEAR) All the extracts below, in the text, present a possessive
children, they learned. One of them became a “leader”. When they noun, except:
wanted to, they chose a new leader. And when one of these little robots a) “…the nation’s soccer federation…”
became weak, with a low battery, the others ‘bullied’ him. They built
up a whole social order of their own. Yet they were machines with b) “…under Brazil’s military dictatorship…”
less brain power than a bee. A brain’s power can be measured by the c) “…a reflection of the investigation’s focus…”
number of cell-connections in it. Our robots have 50. A human brain d) “…the United States Justice Department’s charging Mr. Marin…”
has a billion. We humans, their creators, gave our robots just one basic
instinct – survival. The rest they found out for themselves. 02. (IBFC) I stayed at the house of my brother. Assinale a alternativa
Developing Grammar in Context, Cambridge University Press correta.
07. (EEAR) The text above a) my brother house
a) shows that these machines became less feeble than a bee. b) my brother’s house
b) proves the humans develop instincts on the robots insensitively. c) my brother’s houses
c) describes robots designed to think almost like people. d) my house’s brother
d) finds out the power of the robots despite becoming leaders.
03. (G1) Assinale a alternativa que preenche corretamente a lacuna.
08. (EEAR) The word ‘built up’ is closest in meaning to Where have you put your _____________?
a) discharged. a) mother purses’
b) intensified. b) mother purse’s
c) burst. c) mother’s purse’s
d) ejected. d) mothers’ purse
e) mother’s purse
Text IV:
04. (G1) Assinale a alternativa correta.
The Parthenon, one of the monuments erected on the sacred rock
of the Acropolis, is the major attraction for visitors of the modern My little puppy doesn’t seem to like your _________ red handkerchief.
city of Athenas. It was built between 447 and 438 b. C. as the holy a) father’s-in-law
sanctuary of the goddess Athena. A good portion of the Parthenon b) father-in-law’s
is still standing having withstood centuries of such catastrophes as
earthquakes and bombardments by foreign invaders. However, this c) father’-in-law
moment of classical perfection is being slowly eaten away by man’s d) father-in-law’
modern catastrophe, pollution. More damage has been done to the e) fathers’-in-law
Parthenon in the past 30 years than in all the 2.000 years preceding
them. While parts have been restored, plans are presently being 05. (G1) Assinale a alternativa que preenche corretamente a lacuna.
discussed to remove the temple permanently from its ancient site and
place it in a museum. Although the Parthenon is still being visited and It will take us ____________ to fix this machine.
admired by thousands of people each year, the question now being a) a whole day’s work
asked is “for how long?” b) a whole’s day work
Source: ECKSTUT, S.; MILLER, T. Interlink. New York: “Prentice Hall”
c) a day’s whole work
d) a whole’s work day
09. (PUC-PR) According to the text, Athena was:
e) a whole day work’s
a) a holy sanctuary.
b) rebuilt between 447 and 438 b.C. 06. (G1) Assinale a alternativa que preenche corretamente a lacuna.
c) erected on a rock. How many ____________ nests did you find?
d) the first name for Athens. a) birds’s
e) a goddess. b) bird’
c) birds’
10. (PUC-PR) According to the text, the Parthenon has been damaged
by ________. d) of birds’s

a) foreign invaders e) of the bird’

b) earthquakes
c) men
d) catastrophes, bombardments and pollution
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07. (G1) Assinale a alternativa que preenche corretamente a lacuna. 04. (UFAL)
Could anybody please tell me how to find out the ____________? KING JUAN CARLOS’S DEMOCRATIC LEGACY IS ROOTED IN CLICHE
a) author address’s
The Spanish king had no choice but to champion democracy. We
b) author’s address’s should remember the part played by ordinary people.
c) author’s address Disponível:<http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/03/
king-juan-carlos-legacy-spaincliche-democracy>. Acesso em: 03 jun. 2014.
d) author address’
e) author’s addresses’ No texto acima, os termos grifados correspondem, respectivamente,
aos elementos gramaticais:
08. (G1) Assinale a alternativa que preenche corretamente a lacuna. a) plural e advérbio
Those dirty shoes are _____________. b) conjunção e advérbio
a) the children’s c) pronome e substantivo
b) the childrens’ d) substantivo e conjunção
c) the children’ e) caso possessivo e adjetivo
d) of the children’
e) of the children’s 05. (CEV-URCA) You can find an example of genitive case in:
a) “They are going to miss him when he’s gone.”
09. (G1) Assinale a alternativa que preenche corretamente a lacuna. b) “It’s not so much his massive wealth or media influence…”
Unfortunately, the ____________ ended up in the river. c) “Berlusconi´s not just any old charlatan.”
a) lady’ hat d) “…because he’s created it through his media influence.”
b) lady hat’ e) “Italy’s greatest weaknesses and its worst instincts.”
c) lady’s hat
d) ladies’s hat 06. (EPCAR) Choose the option that has the same meaning of
e) lady hats’ “Parents usually don’t know their child is a cyberbully.”
a) Parents’ child usually don’t know he is a cyberbully.
10. (FATEC) Assinale a alternativa que apresenta o uso correto do caso b) Parents child’s usually don’t know he is a cyberbully.
possessivo, como no substantivo “media” em “the media’s collective c) Child parents’ usually don’t know he is a cyberbully.
attention”.
d) Child’s parents usually don’t know he is a cyberbully.
a) mens’ garment.
b) womens’ wear. 07. (UFRGS) Which of the alternatives below has the same structure
c) mental’s disturbance. as The fans’ transgression of bourgeois taste?
d) children’s clothes. a) The government’s interference with middle class education.
e) disappointment’s feeling. b) The students’s discussion and their argument.
c) The girl’s reading an interesting book.
d) The fan’s harsh criticizing went unnoticed.
EXERCÍCIOS DE

TREINAMENTO
e) The teacher’s introduced quite complex matters.

08. (UFF) Mark the option in which the apostrophe S is used as in

“curiosity’s virtue”.
01. (EPCAR) Mark the option which shows the same meaning as in “a a) “it’s the inner signal”;
person’s body size or weight.” b) “that’s still unknown”;
a) A person and body size or weight. c) “it’s usually directed”;
b) The body size or weight of a person. d) “that’s a fact”;
c) Body size and person’s weight. e) “student’s best friend”.
d) The body’s size or weight of a person.
09. (UFRGS) The use of ‘S is the same in ANYONE’S PARTYING SPIRIT
02. (CN) Mark the INCORRECT option according to the Genitive Case. and in
a) The door’s car is open. a) Everyone’s invited for Carnival in Rio.
b) The world’s population is increasing. b) The American’s luggage was checked carefully.
c) I’m going to Grandma’s. c) My friend Jeremy’s arrived.
d) Which are Fred’s and Eric’s cars? d) Nobody’s pleased with the situation.
e) This is my mother-in-law’s house. e) The Mexican tourist’s coming tomorrow.

03. (PM-BA) “So the government’s told the country’s menfolk to

shed their ties”
The’ s in “government’s” is the
a) contraction of is.
b) contraction of was.
c) contraction of has.
d) plural ending.
e) genitive case.

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10. (UNITAU) Assinale a alternativa que corresponde à tradução mais 06. (EFOMM) Betty, Jane and I were invited to a party at __________
adequada da frase a seguir: home.
My mother’s maid has just bought the dog’s meat. a) your friend’s Carol
a) Minha mãe e a empregada acabam de comprar a carne do b) our friend Carol
cachorro.
c) our friend Carol’s
b) A empregada de minha mãe acaba de comprar a carne do
d) your friend’s Carol’s
cachorro.
e) her friends’ Carol
c) Minha mãe acabou de fazer a carne do cachorro.
d) Minha mãe fará compras com a empregada e o cachorro.
07. (EFOMM) His __________ sickness is worrying him very much.
e) Minha mãe é empregada e comprou carne de cachorro.
a) mother’s-in-law
b) mother-in-law
c) mother’s-in-law’s
EXERCÍCIOS DE

COMBATE
d) mother-in-law’s
e) mothers-in-law’s

08. (CFOE) The option which contains the use of the same rule of
01. (AFA) Mark the option which shows the same meaning as in Genitive Case (’s) applied to -from kids’ bodies is:
“Americans’ dependence on family”. a) girls’ c) walrus’
a) The family’s dependence on Americans’. b) Louis’ d) childrens’
b) The Americans family dependence.
c) The Americans dependence of family’s. 09. (COMD AERONÁUTICA) Choose the alternative in which the (’s)
means the same as belongs to.
d) The dependence of Americans on family.
a) Mary’s an air hostess.
02. (AFA) No one could avoid noticing my _______ or ________ b) The pilot’s talking to the tower.
dresses during the party. c) The pilot’s eaten a sandwich.
a) wives / daughter d) Mary’s uniform is fashionable.
b) wife / daughter’s
c) wife’s / daughter’s 10. (PUC-SP) Assinale a alternativa correta:
d) wive’s / daughter’s Ben and Bill are brothers. Do you know _______?
a) Ben and Bill’s parents
03. (AFA) Choose the correct answer to complete the sentence: b) Ben’s and Bill parents
The __________ offices are very modern. c) Ben’s and Bill’s parents.
a) businessmen’ d) Bem and Bill parents’
b) businessmens’ e) Bem and Bill parents’s
c) businessmans’
d) businessmen’s
GABARITO
04. (ITA) Assinalar a alternativa onde o uso do caso genitivo esteja
EXERCÍCIOS DE FIXAÇÃO
CORRETO:
01. D 04. B 07. C 10. D
a) For goodness’ sake, this is my brother-in-law’s dog.
02. B 05. A 08. B
b) For goodness’ sake, this is my brother’s-in-law dog.
03. E 06. C 09. C
c) For goodness sake’s, this is my brother-in-law’s dog.
EXERCÍCIOS DE TREINAMENTO
d) For goodness sake’s, this is my brother’s-in-law dog.
01. B 04. E 07. A 10. B
e) For goodness sake’s, this is my brother-in-law dog’s.
02. A 05. E 08. E
05. (ESPCEX) The correct sentence is: 03. C 06. D 09. B
a) My father’s friend called me yesterday. EXERCÍCIOS DE COMBATE
b) The table’s leg is broken. 01. D 04. A 07. D 10. A
c) I have an appointment at the office’s doctor. 02. C 05. A 08. A
d) My brother neighbour’s sister is a nurse. 03. D 06. C 09. D
e) The girls school is far from St Bartholomew’s.

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