Portuguese activity, aimed at students in the eighth grade of elementary school, about verbs in active voice. How about analyzing these verbs in the text Under the Tuscan sun? To do this, answer the proposed questions!
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
Read:
Frances Mayes is a writer who leads a happy life in San Francisco, until she divorces her husband. Sad and depressed, she decides to radically change her life and buys a farm in Tuscany, to rest and be able to finish her new text in peace. However, while she takes care of renovating her new home, she ends up meeting a new man, who reignites her passion.
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Question 1 – Underline the verb in the following active voice:
“[…] A writer who leads a happy life in San Francisco, until she divorces her husband.”
Question 2 – The previously underlined verb is in the active voice because the subject is:
( ) agent.
( ) patient.
( ) agent and patient.
Question 3 – In the part “[…] buys a farm in Tuscany […]”, the verb in the active voice refers to:
( ) to the 1st person singular.
( ) to the 2nd person singular.
( ) to the 3rd person singular.
Question 4 – Read back:
“However, while she takes care of renovating her new home […]”
The subject of the verb in the active voice refers to:
Question 5 – Watch:
“[…] that rekindles your passion.”
In this passage, the verb in the active voice is:
( ) intransitive.
( ) direct transitive.
( ) indirect transitive.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Letters and specialist in distance education.
