Portuguese activity, aimed at students in the ninth year of elementary school, explores coordinating conjunctions. Let's analyze these conjunctions in the text Medicines cannot be thrown in the common trash; know where to discard? In “[…] but they cannot be thrown in the trash.”, does the coordinating conjunction express a contrast, a caveat or a compensation?
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
Read:
Expired medications or leftover medications need to be disposed of, but cannot be thrown in the trash.
It is necessary to look for suitable places, such as pharmacies, which have collection points so that the material is collected by specialized companies and then incinerated.
Medicines are chemical residues, and can cause environmental and health risks.
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Question 1 – Underline the following coordinating conjunction:
“Expired medications or leftover medications need to be discarded […]”
Question 2 – The coordinating conjunction underlined above is:
( ) conclusive.
( ) alternative.
( ) explanatory.
Question 3 – In “[…] but they cannot be thrown in the trash.”, the coordinating conjunction expresses:
( ) a contrast.
( ) a caveat.
( ) compensation.
Question 4 – In the segment “[…] they can cause environmental and health risks.”, there is a coordinating conjunction. Identify it:
Question 5 – The coordinating conjunction, identified in the previous question, expresses the idea of:
Question 6 – It can be concluded that a conjunction is coordinating when it links clauses:
( ) dependent on each other.
( ) independent of each other.
( ) partially dependent on each other in meaning.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Letters and specialist in distance education.
