Portuguese activity: Subject

Portuguese activity, focused on students in the ninth grade of elementary school, addresses subject. Hidden subject, simple subject and compound subject! Let's analyze them in the text king woodpecker? To do so, answer the proposed questions!

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SCHOOL: DATE:

PROF: CLASS:

NAME:

Read:

king woodpecker

The king-woodpecker stands out for its size: with about 36 centimeters in length and approximately 200 grams, it is considered the largest woodpecker in Brazil. The head and neck are red and the breast is streaked in black and white.

Like the others, the species' repertoire of sounds includes, in addition to singing and calling, the famous drumming made by striking the beak on dry or hollow logs. Another feature in common is the menu: insects and larvae predominate.

Available in:. (Fragment with adaptation).

Questions

Question 1 – In the passage “The king-woodpecker stands out for its size […]”, the verb expresses:

( ) a doubt about the simple subject.

( ) a certainty about the simple subject.

( ) a possibility about the simple subject.

Question 2 – Underline the following hidden subject verb:

“[…] with about 36 centimeters in length and approximately 200 grams, it is considered the largest woodpecker in Brazil.”

Question 3 – Identify the sentence in which the subject is compound:

( ) “The head and neck are red […]”

( ) “[…] and the breast is striated in black and white.”

( ) “Another feature in common is the menu […]”

Question 4 – In “[…] the repertoire of sounds of the species includes, in addition to singing and calling, the famous drumming […]”, the core of the simple subject is the noun:

( ) “repertoire”.

( ) “sounds”.

( ) “species”.

Question 5 – In the section “[…] insects and larvae predominate.”, the subject of the verb “predominate” is classified as:

( ) hidden.

( ) simple.

( ) composite.

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