Portuguese activity, focused on students in the eighth grade of elementary school, about verbs in the gerund. Let's analyze this noun form in the fragment On Liverpool Pier of a novel? To do so, answer the proposed questions!
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
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Read:
They had been paddling for a long, long time – it felt like at least half a day. However, Liverpool still seemed close, and Mary was beginning to _______ wonder that the men weren't as downhearted as she was when the The wind, which until then had been against them, ceased to blow, and scattered clouds gathered in the sky, hiding the sun and casting an icy melancholy over the sky. world.
GASKELL, Elizabeth. mary barton. Translation by Julia Romeu. 1.ed. Rio de Janeiro: Record, 2017. P. 344.
Question 1 – Underline the verb in the following gerund:
“They had been paddling for a long, long time – it felt like it had been at least half a day.”
Question 2 – The verb in the gerund underlined above forms a phrase with:
( ) "they were".
( ) "it was".
( ) “did”.
Question 3 – In the section “[…] and Mary was starting to _______ get scared […]”, the verb in the gerund requires the preposition:
( ) "The".
( ) "in".
( ) "per".
Question 4 – The fragment below was transcribed without the comma that precedes the gerund. Put it:
“[…] it stopped blowing and scattered clouds thickened in the sky, hiding the sun […]”
Question 5 – Watch:
“[…] and casting an icy melancholy over the world.”
Name a verb in the gerund that could replace the one used in this segment of the text:
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Letters and specialist in distance education.
