Questão 4875040

• Banca: FURB
• Órgão: Prefeitura de Porto Belo - SC
• Ano: 2019
• Provas: FURB - 2019 - Prefeitura de Porto Belo - SC - Professor - Inglês
• Disciplina: Inglês
• Assuntos: Aspectos linguísticos | Linguistic aspects; Pronúncia e Som | Pronunciation and Sound

The English language is full of words whose written form can be deceptive. Different from Portuguese, in English we rarely sound out all the letters that we see. Due to the history of the language, there are a lot of silent letters in English. Analyze the following statements and identify the correct ones:

I- The b is silent in doubt, comb and bomb. In the word tomb, the b is pronounced.
II- The p is silent in the following words: psychology, raspberry, receipt, cupboard. 
III- The l is silent in talk, walk, chalk, would, half.
IV- The h is silent in heir, hour, honor, honest, helicopter.
V- The t is silent in listen, Christmas, castle, whistle.

Choose the alternative with the correct answer: 

• A. Statements II, III and V are correct
• B. Statements I, II, IV and V are correct. 
• C. Only statements I and II are correct.
• D. Statements I, III and V are correct.
• E. All the statements are correct.

Gabarito: A