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Four types of English exist in Africa, identifiable in terms of history, functions, and linguistic characteristics. West African Pidgin English has a history going back to the 15th

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CEBRASPE (CESPE) · 2024

Four types of English exist in Africa, identifiable in terms of history, functions, and linguistic characteristics. West African Pidgin English has a history going back to the 15th century, 400 years before formal colonization. Creole varieties of English have a history going back to repatriation of enslaved people from the Caribbean and the United States of America in the 19th century. Second language varieties, which are the most widespread on the continent, are prototypically associated with British colonization and its education systems. L1 (first language) English occurred mostly in Southern and East Africa and is best represented in South Africa. The latter shows significant similarities with the other major Southern Hemisphere varieties of English, spoken in Australia and New Zealand. African Englishes From a

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Considering the previous text, its ideas and linguistic features, as well as the reading strategies that apply to it, judge the follow item.

In both the excerpts “has a history going back to the 15th century”, and “have a history going back to repatriation”, the expression “going back” works as a phrasal verb.
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Comentário: A afirmação está correta, pois a expressão "going back" realmente funciona como um phrasal verb nas frases mencionadas. Um phrasal verb é uma combinação de um verbo com uma preposição ou advérbio, que juntos criam um significado diferente do verbo isolado. No caso de "going back", a expressão indica uma referência temporal, sugerindo que algo remonta a um período anterior. Portanto, nas duas frases, "has a history going back to the 15th century" e "have a history going back to repatriation", a expressão cumpre o papel de um phrasal verb, mostrando a origem histórica de cada tipo de inglês mencionado.

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