Portuguese activity, aimed at students in the eighth year of elementary school, proposes the study of adjective phrases (Joining two or more words with an adjectival function). The questions are based on the text about the book. Who are you, Alasca?, written by John Green (the same author of Blame it on the stars).
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
Read the text about a book written by John Green:
Miles Halter led a dull, emotionless (or friendship) life in Florida. He had a peculiar taste: memorizing the last words of great personalities in history. One of these personalities, François Rabelais, a fifteenth-century poet, said on his deathbed that he was “in search of a Great Maybe”. In order not to have to wait for death to find his Great Maybe, Miles decides to pack his bags and leave. He goes to Culver Creek School, a boarding school in sunny Alabama.
There he meets Alaska Young. She has it in her favorite book, the general in his labyrinth, by Gabriel García Márquez, the question to which he is incessantly seeking an answer: “How am I going to get out of this maze?" […] Alaska will drag Miles into its labyrinth and catapult him mercilessly toward the Great Perhaps. Miles falls in love with Alaska, even without understanding it, even trying unsuccessfully to decipher the riddle of her emerald green eyes.
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Question 1 - In the first period of the text, the adjective phrase "ungraceful" features:
( ) "Miles Halter"
( ) “a little life”
( ) "the Florida"
Question 2 - The underlined passage plays the role of an adjective phrase in:
( ) “[…] without many emotions (or friendships) in Florida."
( ) “[…] and catapult it no mercy towards the Great Maybe.”
( ) “Miles falls in love with Alaska, even without understanding it […]”
Question 3 - In the sentence “[…] even unsuccessfully trying to decipher the enigma of her emerald green eyes.”, is the phrase “unsuccessful” an adjective? Explain:
A:
Question 4 – “[…] François Rabelais, a fifteenth century poet, said on his deathbed […]”. Identify the adjective phrase present in this part of the text:
A:
Question 5 - The noun "courage" composes an adjective phrase in the sentence:
( ) She has a lot of courage!
( ) She acted with courage.
( ) She is a brave girl!
Per Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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