Portuguese activity, focused on students in the eighth grade of elementary school, about conjunctions. How about analyzing them in the fragment of "The invisible man"? To do so, answer the proposed questions!
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
Read:
The people below were looking at him, one or two were running, and his breath was starting to burn in his throat. The tram was very close now, and the Jolly Cricketers were loudly barring its doors. Behind the tram were the rafters and heaps of gravel from the sewer works. He had a fleeting idea of getting on the tram and closing the doors, but then he decided to go to the police station. When he passed the Jolly Cricketers, he saw that he was at the end of the street, surrounded by human beings. […]
WELLS, Herbert George. "The invisible man". Rio de Janeiro: Zahar, 2017. p.186-187.
Question 1 – Watch:
“The people down below were looking at him, one or two were running […]”
Identify the conjunction present in this passage of the text:
Question 2 – The previously identified conjunction is:
( ) conclusive.
( ) alternative.
( ) explanatory.
Question 3 – In “The streetcar was close at hand now, and the Jolly Cricketers were noisily barring its doors.”, the conjunction introduces a fact, which:
( ) is added to another.
( ) is conditional on another.
( ) compares with another.
Question 4 – This excerpt was transcribed without the comma before the adversative conjunction. Put it:
“He had a fleeting idea of walking on the tram and closing the doors, but then he decided to go to the police station.”
Question 5 – The adversative conjunction begins, in the above passage, a sentence called:
( ) absolute.
( ) coordinate.
( ) subordinate.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Letters and specialist in distance education.
