Portuguese activity, aimed at ninth grade students, explores the voices of the verb. Active, passive or reflective voice? What do they indicate in the communicative context? Let's analyze? For this study, answer the various questions based on the text that tells the story of corn! Did you know that it is one of the most produced foods in the world? And that Brazil is the third largest producer of this grain? Read these and other trivia and be sure to study the verbal voices!
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Considered sacred in several cultures, corn became the basis of food for the ancients. inhabitants of Mexico and Central America, occupying a prominent place in mythology and history traditional.
Consumed by the American peoples from about 5,000 BC, the cereal was revered by the Aztecs and Incas and even occupied a prominent place in the Popol Vuh, sacred book of the Mayan civilization that reports the birth of human beings from corn.
The Indians of East North America, the Aztec, Mayan and Inca civilizations and our Guarani Indians, created several legends that attributed to corn a divine origin, transforming the grain into a synonym of abundance and the main ingredient in the diet of these populations.
With the discovery of America and the great navigations of the 16th century, corn cultivation expanded to other parts of the world. Today it is the most produced cereal in the world, cultivated and consumed on all continents and its production is second only to wheat and rice. Currently, Brazil is the third largest corn producer in the world, behind the United States and China, however, the level of consumption of the grain in the country is far from being compared to that of Mexico and countries in the region of Caribbean.
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Question 1 - Look closely at the fragment. Afterwards, identify, by means of a dash, the verb that composes it:
“[…] corn has become the staple of food for the former inhabitants of Mexico and Central America […]”
Question 2 - The verb identified above was inflected in the voice:
a) active
b) passive analytical
c) pronominal passive
d) reflective
Question 3 - In the passage “[…] was revered by the Aztecs and Incas […]”, the phrase in the passive voice has as subject:
a) "the corn"
b) "the cereal"
c) "the wheat"
d) “the rice”
Question 4 – Using the subject indicated above, rewrite the passage, changing the passive voice for the active voice:
A.
Question 5 - In the segment “The Indians of East North America, the Aztec, Mayan and Inca civilizations and our Guarani Indians, created various legends […]”, the active verb underlined expresses:
a) an action of those peoples.
b) a state of those peoples.
c) an attribute of those peoples.
d) a way of being of these peoples.
Question 6 – In the excerpt “[…] the corn crop has expanded to other parts of the world.”, the verb in the reflective voice could be replaced by:
a) supported
b) if completed
c) spread
d) restricted
Question 7 – In the excerpt above, the reflexive verb "expanded" points to a fact:
a) uninterrupted
b) completed
c) predictable
d) hypothetical
Question 8 – In the sentence “[…] its production is second only to wheat and rice.”, the active voice was used to indicate:
a) that the subject is an agent of the action expressed by the verb “lose”.
b) that the subject is a patient of the action expressed by the verb “lose”.
c) that the subject is the agent and patient of the action expressed by the verb “lose”.
d) that the subject is neither agent nor patient of the action expressed by the verb “ask”.
Per Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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