Practice your English comprehension - VALDENOR SOUSA

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1- What is the next letter in this sequence?

(01) You see the sequence that sequence of letters and then there is one letter that should come next.

(02) Which letter do you think?

(04) If you're thinking of a calendar then you probably could guess that the next letter should be the letter D.

(08) So those were the first letters of the months: JANUARY(gên'nhíu-éuri), FEBRUARY(fébíu-éuri), MARCH(mórtch), APRIL(êiprôu), MAY(mêi), JUNE(djûn), JULY(djûlái), AUGUST(Óguistch), SEPTEMBER, OCTOBER(ókTôbôr), NOVEMBER, DECEMBER.

2- What can you catch but you can not throw?

(01) So often you think of catching something like you would catch a ball and you could throw a ball, but what is something else that you can catch and you can't throw?

(02) In this case, I would say think of the word catch, what are some other ways that you can use that? You can use it with some very common phrases, common expressions. I would even say it is a collocation. Collocations are words thar are frequently used together.

(04) In this case, so you could say that somebody can catch this thing, but it is not something that you're gonna just be able to throw back at somebody else or throw in general.

(08) I'm talking about A COLD, you can catch a cold.

(16) Some people put it disease, I think most of the time you're when you talk about this, you talk about catching a cold. If you're talking about the word desease, I would say maybe you're going to use the verb GET, you would maybe get a desease, but you're going to catch a cold because a cold is typically not as serious, it is just something that is a bit annoying frustrating it lasts for a few days and you would tell somebody I caught a cold.

3- A woman and 9 friends are under ONE umbrella.But, nobody gets wet. Why?

(01) So why is it? this is one person, this one woman, she has one umbrella, nine friends are around, nobody gets wet, why is that? Nobody got wet.

(02) I would say that typically the easiest answer in some cases when we're talking about riddles, the easiest answer is often the correct one.

(04) The answer is: because it was not raining!

(08) So this is more just kind of a humorous answer as to why, nobody got wet because it is not raining.

4 - What gets broken without being held?

(01) So how is that? So, we talk about the word broken, and how else could you use that word?

(02) Think about something that you can break but it not something that you can hold your hands.

(04) For example, you can hold a cup, in your hands, and if you drop it you can break a cup, but what do you think

(08) These are some collocations, there are words that are often used together: break a promise, break (one's) silence, break (one's) heart.

(16) You can break a promise, if you don't keep your promise then you break your promise.

(32) You can also break one's silence.

5 - You enter a dark room. There is a candle and a lantern. You only have ONE math. Which one do you light first?

(01) So, you enter this dark room, there's a candle, there's a lantern(Lénthôrn), uhh, you only got only match, which one are you going to light first?

(02) So for this one uhh I'd say if I were to give you a hint uhhh just think about this exact situation. Think about what you are going to do, what is it that you are exactly going to do.

(04) Before you light the candle or before you light the lantern, you're going to have to light the match.

(08) So in this case you're going to light the match first.

6 - What five-letter word become shorter when you add two letters to it?

(01) So, this may sound a little confusing because you're adding two letters to it what five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it.

(02) Typically again the simplest answer, I want you to read this carefully, I want you to focus on exactly what the question asks.

(04) So the answer is short(Xôrtch).

(08) So we're talking about the word that becomes shorter, it is becoming the word shorter when you add the letters ER.

(16) So, short becomes shorter when you add those two letters.

(32) short + ER = SHORTER.

7 - What goes up but never comes back down?

(01) So, What goes up but never comes back down? What do you think?

(02) Don't think about gravity because when you think about something that you could throw up, throw the water bottle up it comes back down because of gravity. 

(04) So the answer is a person's age.

(08) People can get older, their age goes up, the numbers go up, but it is never going to come back down, unless you are Benjamin Button, and that is a reference to the movie, if you haven't seen the movie you could check it out and then you'll know what I'm talking about but your age goes up and never comes back down.

8 - What has a neck but no head?

(01) So, what is something that has a neck but it does not have a head?

(02) So the answer is a bottle.

(04) A bottle has a neck but it has no head.

9 - What begins with T, finishes with T and has tea in it?

(01) So, it begins with T, like the letter T, finishes with T and it has T in it

(02) So the answer is Teapot.

(04) A teapot, it begins with T, it ends with T, and of course you put TEA in a teapot.

10 - There are 30 cows in a field and 28 chickens, how many didn't?

(01) So, homonyms, words that have maybe the same pronunciation but perhaps they are spelled differently and have a different mening.

(02) 28=20ate, the number 20(thuêni) and then the verb ATE(êitch).

(04) So of course a cow is not going to eat a chicken, but again, this is just a riddle.

(08) So 20 of the cows ate chickens and 10 cows did not eat chickens.

(16) The answer is ten.