Portuguese activity, focused on students in the ninth grade of elementary school, addresses verb noun forms. Infinitive, gerund and participle! We will analyze them in the text about the araçari-banana? To do so, answer the proposed questions!
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It lays, on average, 2 to 4 eggs. The incubation period is 16 days. Nests are installed in tree cavities and in termite mounds. When not, it takes advantage of the home of other birds, such as the woodpecker. Parents take care of the chicks.
It usually lives in groups of 5 to 7 individuals. It has forest habits jumping from branch to branch. It is important in the process of dispersing seeds. It uses its beak to defend itself against predators.
"People's Land".
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Question 1 – Identify the segment that has a verb in the participle:
( ) “The incubation period is 16 days.”
( ) “The nests are installed in the cavities of trees and in termite mounds.”
( ) “The parents take care of the young.”
Question 2 – This passage has been transcribed without the comma preceding the gerund. Put it:
“It has forest habits jumping from branch to branch.”
Question 3 – In the passage above, the verb in the gerund expresses:
( ) an action.
( ) a state.
( ) a feature.
Question 4 – Watch:
“It is important in the process of dispersing seeds.”
The verb in the infinitive, used in this part of the text, could be replaced by:
( ) "to harvest".
( ) "to plant".
( ) "to spread".
Question 5 – In the section “Uses the beak to defend itself from predators.”, the verb in the infinitive required a complement with a preposition. Therefore, he is:
( ) intransitive.
( ) direct transitive.
( ) indirect transitive.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Letters and specialist in distance education.
