Portuguese activity: Pronouns

Portuguese activity, aimed at students in the ninth year of elementary school, about pronouns. How about analyzing them in the text How do oysters make pearls? To do this, answer the proposed questions!

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SCHOOL: DATE:

PROF: CLASS:

NAME:

Read:

How do oysters make pearls?

Any foreign body (grains of sand or parasites) that invades the shell can cause irritation. As a defense mechanism, oysters coat _________ a foreign body with mother-of-pearl, a calcium substance that they expel to protect the shell. This is how pearls are formed. The largest pearl in the world, found in April 2001, is 6.2 cm long, 5.3 cm wide and 3.0 cm high. The gem weighs 169 grams.

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Questions

Question 1 – Underline the following indefinite pronoun:

“Any foreign body (grains of sand or parasites) that invades the shell can cause irritation.”

Question 2 – The underlined pronoun above gives an indefinite meaning to the noun:

( ) "body".

( ) “grains”.

( ) “shell”.

Question 3 – In “As a defense mechanism, oysters coat _________ a foreign body with mother-of-pearl […]”, the space must be filled in with the demonstrative pronoun:

( ) "This one".

( ) "that".

( ) "that one".

Question 4 – In the text, the personal pronoun “they” was used to refer to:

Question 5 – Watch:

“[…] a calcic substance that they expel to protect the shell.”

In this passage, the word “that” is:

( ) a noun.

( ) a relative pronoun.

( ) an adverb of intensity.

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