Portuguese Activity: Adverbs

Portuguese activity, aimed at students in the ninth year of elementary school, addresses the adverbs. Are we going to analyze the terms that modify the meaning of verbs, adjectives or adverbs, indicating different circumstances? So, answer the various questions that explore the adverbs in the curious text How could we do without… Mirror?

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How could we do without… Mirror?

You probably take a look in the mirror before you leave the house. Inside an elevator with mirrored walls, you are sure to take the opportunity to straighten your clothes or hair. Light-reflecting surfaces are so easy to find in an urban environment that it's hard to imagine how much they've been disputed in the past.

Everything indicates that the first time human beings saw their reflection was in water. This must have changed in about 3000 a. C., when people from the present region of Iran started to use sand to polish metals and stones. These mirrors only reflected contours and shapes. But images weren't sharp and the metal easily oxidized, losing function.

So, for most of history, everyone had only a vague notion of what they looked like. This was the case until the end of the 13th century, when, in Venice, someone had the idea of ​​joining glass and sheet metal. “Mirrors from that era have a small metallic layer on the back of the glass. Thus, the image was clear, and the metal would not oxidize because it was protected by glass”, says Claudio Furukawa, a researcher at the USP Physics Institute. This was already the mirror as we know it today: metal reflects and glass protects.

But the Venetian mirror was a rare and expensive product. They were even more valuable than warships or paintings of geniuses like the Italian Renaissance Raphael (1483-1520). The democratization of the article began in 1660, when King Louis XIV of France (1638-1715) ordered one of his ministers to bribe Venetian artisans to obtain their secret. The result can be seen in the mirror room of the Palace of Versailles.

With the advent of the Industrial Revolution, the manufacturing process became much cheaper and the price dropped. “Even so”, says PUC-RJ anthropologist José Carlos Rodrigues, “the mirror only became popular and it entered everyone's homes from the 20th century onwards.” Only then do we become familiar with our own guy.

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Questions

Question 1 - In “How could we do without… Mirror?”, the interrogative adverb “Como” indicates:

( ) mode

( ) cause

( ) time

Question 2 - In the period "Probably you take a look in the mirror before you leave the house.”, the author of the text used the underlined adverb to express:

( ) a certainty

( ) a denial

( ) a possibility

Question 3 - Analyze the sentences and then identify the one in which the underlined term plays the role of an adverb:

( ) "The surfaces that reflect light are So easy to find […]"

( ) “That must have changed in about 3000 a. Ç […]"

( ) “Only then did we become familiar with Wow own face.”

Question 4 – In the segment “But images were not clear and the metal easily oxidized […]”, the adverbial phrase “easily” indicates:

( ) the place where the metal oxidized.

( ) the way the metal oxidized.

( ) the way the metal oxidized.

Question 5 - Rewrite the segment present in the question above, replacing the adverbial phrase with the corresponding adverb:

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Question 6 – There are two adverbs of time in this fragment. Underline them:

"This was already the mirror as we know it today: metal reflects and glass protects."

Question 7 – In the sentence “They used to be more valuable […]”, the adverb “more” intensifies the meaning of an attributed characteristic:

( ) to Venetian mirrors.

( ) to warships.

( ) to geniuses such as the Italian Renaissance artist Rafael.

Question 8 – In the passage “[…] the manufacturing process became much cheaper and the price dropped.”, the adverb “well” changes the meaning:

( ) of the verb “stayed”.

( ) from the adverb “more”.

( ) from the adjective “cheap”.

By Denyse Lage Fonseca

Graduated in Languages ​​and specialist in distance education.