Portuguese activity: Compound period

Portuguese activity, aimed at students in the ninth year of elementary school, explores compound period. How about analyzing this type of period in the text Importance in the food chain? To do so, answer the proposed questions!

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Importance in the food chain

Some coconut caterpillars do not complete their life cycle and die before becoming a butterfly. However, as long as this does not happen by human action, it is something commonplace in nature. “These caterpillars are important sources of food for birds, possums, monkeys, lizards, for all urban fauna. So killing these caterpillars is actually taking food from these animals. This is critical for birds, as the caterpillars appear around the time the birds are raising their young. The thrush, for example, is breeding now and these caterpillars are important food sources for them.”, emphasizes André Freitas, professor at the Laboratory of Ecology and Systematics of Butterflies at the Unicamp.

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Questions

Question 1 – Reread the first sentence of the text. Why is it composed?

Question 2 – The sentence below has been transcribed without commas. Put them:

“However, as long as this does not happen by human action, it is something commonplace in nature.”

Question 3 – Watch:

“This is critical for the birds, as the caterpillars appear around the time the birds are raising their young.”

Identify the conjunction present in this compound sentence:

Question 4 – The conjunction identified above begins a sentence called:

( ) absolute.

( ) coordinate.

( ) subordinate.

Question 5 – In the compound sentence “The thrush, for example, is breeding now and these caterpillars are important sources of food for them.”, the conjunction introduces a fact, which:

( ) concludes another.

( ) explains another.

( ) is added to another.

By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Letters and specialist in distance education.