Phrase · 🎓 Academic discourse
Em linhas gerais, o estudo confirma a literatura anterior.
Broadly speaking, the study confirms previous research.
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Why every word is where it is
Em1prepositioninlinhas1nounlineslinha · fem. · pl.gerais1adjectivegeneralgeral · fem. · pl.,odeterminerthemasc. · sing. · definiteestudonounstudymasc. · sing.confirmaverbconfirmsconfirmar · present · 3rd sing.adeterminertheo · fem. · sing. · definiteliteratura2nounliteraturefem. · sing.anterioradjectivepreviousfem. · sing..
- Em → gerais: fixed frame
- estudo → confirma: subject–verb
- literatura → anterior: agreement
Why it's built this way
The notes match the numbers above.
- 1Em linhas gerais = "broadly speaking": a summary frame. Discourse connectors for argument & writing →
- 2a literatura: the body of research on a topic. Academic register: nominalisation, impersonality & hedging →