Language allows us to communicate a seemingly infinite array of ideas, emotions, and experiences. At the heart of this linguistic complexity lies polysemy, a semantic phenomenon through which meanings of words extend or shift so that a single word has two or more related meanings. The word catering to the previous characterization is:

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The branch of linguistics and logic dealing with meaning is semantics. It has a number of subbranches including formal semantics, lexical semantics, and conceptual semantics. Concerning the words listed below, we can state that:

Intonation describes how the voice rises and falls in speech, it is about how we say things, rather than what we say. The three main patterns of intonation in English are: falling intonation, rising intonation and fall-rise intonation. About falling intonation, it is true we use it:

Word classes, also known as parts of speech, are the different categories of words used in grammar each having some distinctive structural characteristics. In an Ensino Médio group, students were given a handout containing pairs of sentences to be observed and analysed as an opportunity for pair work. At a later moment, the teacher conducted class discussion based on the results of the analysis performed. Being the handout as follows, accurate data to ground conclusions is introduced in:
1.a) The coming and going of people is easy in a humanized city. 1.b) People are coming and going to choose their Christmas gifts.
2.a) Mike’s arriving to class late became a bad habit. 2.b) Look, Mike’s arriving to class late once more!
3.a) Jordan gets detention for his disrespecting the teachers. 3.b) Jordan gets detention for he’s disrespecting the teachers.
4.a) The candidate’s winning the elections in several key areas. 4.b) Her winning the elections was happily celebrated.
5.a) We are buying the gear for the weekend camping trip. 5.b) For the weekend camping trip, our buying the gear was expensive.

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“If you boil water, it ______________ into steam, that’s a scientific fact and there’s no doubt about it!”

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The game is changing. For the first time in history, the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games will see an equal number of men and women competing. This 50:50 representation of athletes makes them the first to reach gender equality. Progress does not stop there. With an expected global audience of 3 billion, this year’s Games have been deliberately scheduled to make possible more balanced coverage of all events, putting all athletes in the spotlight. They will also feature more women’s and mixed events, offering more opportunities for women to win medals. A recent survey found that 80 per cent of female Fortune 500 CEOs played sports in their formative years, emphasizing the impact of early exposure to sport on the development of young women. A 2023 Deloitte report also revealed that 85 per cent of surveyed women who played sports as children believed the skills they developed were crucial to their professional success. This rises to 91 per cent for women in leadership roles, and 93 per cent for those earning USD 100,000 or more. Additionally, 92 per cent of global audiences agree it is important for girls to play sports, with 61 per cent considering them “very important”. Despite the positive data, girls drop out of sports by age 14 at twice the rate of boys due to social expectations and lack of investment in quality programs which is worsened by other factors. For example, 21 per cent of female professional athletes have experienced sexual abuse at least once as children in sport, compared with 11 per cent of male athletes. Efforts to track and respond to such cases are increasing worldwide, but gaps in the magnitude and prevalence of violence in sports persist, being prevention efforts are often lacking.
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Phonological awareness can be described as the ability to identify and manipulate the smallest sounds in spoken words. The skills developed from phonological awareness are important for early reading and writing, and notably involve oral language, as they engage listening to the spoken word. The following are components of phonological awareness, EXCEPT for:

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- It can’t be Sarah. I know she lives in France, not here.

- It might rain today for those clouds are really dark.

- They may be using the new laptop since it has been unpacked.

- I could go to the exhibition but I am torn about it.

- Della must have arrived, her schedule has not changed.

The modal verbs’ idea conveyed is the one of: