Portuguese activity asks 1st year high school students to distinguish between "subject" and "complement", through text, written by the Spanish musician Pablo Casals, who fought the dictatorship and the Nazi regime.
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PROF: CLASS:
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What incredible changes and advancements I have seen in my life! What incredible progress – in science, industry and space exploration! But how hungry, tyrants and oppressors we still are. We continue to act like barbarians, and as savages we still fear our neighbors on this Earth – we arm against them, they arm against us. I hope I never have to live in a world where man's law is to kill man. We are all leaves of the same tree, and that tree is called humanity.
Pablo Casals (Spanish musician, 1876-1973, who fought the dictatorship and the Nazi regime.)
Question 1 - “[…] we arm ourselves against them, they arm themselves against us.”. Identify the syntactic functions performed by the pronouns "we" and "they" in the context above:
Question 2 - "I hope I never have to live in a world where man's law is to kill man." The tone of this passage, created by the subjunctive, is:
a) advice
b) request
c) order
d) desire
Question 3 - The period "But how hungry, tyrants and oppressors we still are." establishes a relationship with the previous ones of:
a) opposition
b) conclusion
c) consent
d) consequence
Question 4 – Check the alternative where the use of relative pronoun is registered:
a) "What incredible changes and advancements I have seen in my life!"
b) “We continue to act like barbarians […]”
c) “[…] in a world where man's law is to kill man.”
d) “[…] and this tree is called humanity.”
Question 5 - In the passage “What incredible progress – in science, industry and space exploration!’ the dash introduces:
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