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 text Green Juruva? To do this, answer the proposed questions!
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It takes advantage of armadillo holes in the ground, digs in ant nests or even uses ravines in the forest to nest. The female lays two to three white eggs per clutch.
The green juruva measures 12 centimeters, has a black mask around the eyes and black spots on the chest.
Male and female usually fly together accompanying other mixed flocks of birds or ant ranges in the forest.
The song of the Juruva-verde is reproduced more frequently during twilight. The bird uses vertical and horizontal perches, swinging the tail sideways or swinging it like a pendulum.
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Question 1 – This excerpt was transcribed without the comma that precedes the gerund. Put it:
“Male and female usually fly together accompanying other mixed flocks of birds or ant herds in the forest.”
Question 2 – In the previous passage, the verb in the gerund expresses:
( ) an action.
( ) a state.
( ) a feature.
Question 3 – In the segment “[…] waving the tail sideways […]”, the adverb adds to the verb in the gerund a circumstance of:
( ) place.
( ) mode.
( ) time.
Question 4 – In the segment above, the verb in the gerund is:
( ) intransitive, as it required no complement.
( ) direct transitive, as it required a complement without a preposition.
( ) indirect transitive, as it required a complement with a preposition.
Question 5 – In “[…] moving it like a pendulum.”, the personal pronoun plays the role of direct object of the verb in the gerund. This pronoun resumes:
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Letters and specialist in distance education.
