Portuguese activity, aimed at students in the ninth year of elementary school, explores verb noun forms. Infinitive, gerund and participle! Let's analyze them in the text the seriema? To do so, answer the proposed questions!
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
Read:
Showing off its 90 centimeters, the seriema has a crest formed by a tuft of feathers, about 10 centimeters long. And a curiosity: it is one of the few birds with eyelashes. It has another very striking characteristic. Its singing that works as a sixth sense. In the countryside, hearing the song of a seriema is a warning that rain is coming.
Thaís Pimenta and Marcelo Ferri.
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Question 1 – Tick the segment that contains a verb in the gerund:
( ) “Displaying her 90 centimeters […]”
( ) “[…] it is one of the few birds with eyelashes.”
( ) “She has another very striking feature.”
Question 2 – Cite a verb in the gerund with the same meaning as the one used in the segment marked above:
Question 3 – Underline the verb in the following participle:
“[…] the seriema has a crest formed by a tuft of feathers, about 10 centimeters long.”
Question 4 – The verb in the underlined participle in the question above indicates:
( ) the active voice.
( ) the passive voice.
( ) the reflective voice.
Question 5 – Watch:
“In the countryside, hearing the song of a seriema is a warning that rain is coming.”
In this passage, there is a verb in the infinitive. Identify it:
Question 6 – The verb in the infinitive identified earlier is:
( ) impersonal.
( ) inflected staff.
( ) uninflected staff.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Letters and specialist in distance education.
