(Originais Teachy 2024) - Question Medium of English

In a global conference call, you, as a representative of your country, are introducing your team to the other participants. You want to mention each team member's role by using possessive pronouns and the genitive case in English. One of your sentences is: 'The project of John is dealing with software development.' How can you rephrase this sentence more appropriately to demonstrate the use of possessive pronouns or the genitive case?

Sometimes in English, we want to say that something is not true or that we don't have something. For example, if I have a pencil and I want to say that I don't have an eraser, I can use a negative form. Look at this sentence: 'I have an apple.' If I don't have an apple, I can change the sentence to the negative form like this: 'I don't have an apple.' Now, imagine you have a dog and you want to say that it's not small. How would you write this in English, using the negative form? Write a complete sentence explaining that your dog is not small. Remember to use the word 'not' in your sentence.

Consider the following excerpt from an explorer's log: 'As we were sailing through the vast ocean, the sun slowly disappeared on the horizon, creating a spectacular display of colours in the sky. The captain was sharing tales of his past adventures, when suddenly, we spotted an unfamiliar island in the distance.' Based on the use of the past continuous in the excerpt above, what is the function of this verb tense in the context presented?