Portuguese activity: Verbs in the past perfect tense

Portuguese activity, aimed at students in the ninth grade of elementary school, explores verbs in the past perfect tense. Let's analyze this verb tense in the text How did the algebraic language of mathematics come about? To do so, answer the proposed questions!

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How did the algebraic language of mathematics come about?

Around 400 AD. C., an Alexandrian scholar named Diophantus experimented with using symbols to facilitate writing and mathematical calculations. About 400 years later, mathematician Mohamed Ibn Musa al-Khowarizmi wrote Al-jabr, a book dealing with changing terms from one side of an equation to the other. Finally, letters and symbols as they are used today appeared around 1500. The person in charge this time was François Viète, who ____________ to represent indeterminate values ​​with letters.

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Questions

Question 1 – In “How did the algebraic language of mathematics come about?”, the adverb adds to the verb in the past perfect tense a circumstance of:

( ) place.

( ) mode.

( ) time.

Question 2 – In the passage “[…] a scholar from Alexandria named Diophantus experimented with using symbols to facilitate writing and calculations […]”, the verb in the perfect tense refers to:

( ) to the 1st person singular.

( ) to the 2nd person singular.

( ) to the 3rd person singular.

Question 3 – Underline the verb in the past perfect tense below:

“About 400 years later, mathematician Mohamed Ibn Musa al-Khowarizmi wrote Al-jab, a book dealing with changing terms from one side of an equation to the other.”

Question 4 – The verb underlined above is in the past perfect tense, as it expresses:

( ) a continuous action in the past.

( ) an action completed in the past.

( ) an action prior to another in the past.

Question 5 – In “The person in charge this time was François Viète, who ____________ representing values ​​[…]”, the space must be filled in with the verb “to pass” in the perfect tense. Tick ​​it:

( ) "it happened"

( ) “passed”.

( ) "it will pass".

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