Portuguese activity, focused on students in the eighth grade of elementary school, addresses verbs in the past perfect tense. Let's analyze this verb tense in the text Manuel de Barros? To do this, answer the proposed questions!
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Manoel de Barros was born in 1916, in Mato Grosso. Older, ______ to Rio de Janeiro and there he graduated in law. He wrote his first poems at the age of twelve and at 21 he published his first book, “Poems Conceived Without Sin”. He won several awards and had his work published in Portugal, Spain and France, among other countries.
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Question 1 – Underline the verb in the past perfect tense below:
“Manoel de Barros was born in 1916, in Mato Grosso.”
Question 2 – Watch:
“Older, ______ to Rio de Janeiro […]”
The space must be filled in with the verb “to go” in the past perfect tense. Tick it:
( ) "he was".
( ) “was”.
( ) "outside".
Question 3 – In the sentence “[…] and there he graduated in law.”, the adverb adds to the verb in the perfect tense a circumstance of:
( ) place.
( ) mode.
( ) time.
Question 4 – In “He made his first poems at twelve years old and at 21 he published his first book […]”, the verbs were used in the past perfect tense, as they express:
( ) fully completed facts.
( ) continuous events in the past.
( ) hypothetical facts in the past.
Question 5 – In the section “Won several awards […]”, the verb in the perfect tense refers to:
( ) to the 1st person singular.
( ) to the 2nd person singular.
( ) to the 3rd person singular.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Letters and specialist in distance education.
