Portuguese activity, focused on first year high school students, about adjective adjuncts. Let's analyze them in the text What are mills for? To do this, answer the proposed questions!
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SCHOOL: DATE:
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Read:
These machines are mainly used for grinding vegetable grains and tubers, which produce flour. They can be powered by wind, water, animal traction and electricity. The invention of the mill is linked to the manufacture of bread, one of the oldest foods produced by man. The water mill, created more than 2 thousand years ago, when spread throughout Europe during the Middle Ages, caused a real industrial revolution.
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Question 1 – Underline the following adnominal adjunct:
“What are mills for?”
Question 2 – Read back:
“These machines are mainly used for grinding vegetable grains and tubers, which produce flour.”
In this segment, there is a pronoun with the function of adnominal adjunct. Identify it:
Question 3 – In “[…] created more than 2 thousand years ago […]”, the adnominal adjunct was expressed by:
( ) an ordinal number.
( ) a cardinal number.
( ) a fractional number.
Question 4 – In the excerpt “[…] spread throughout Europe during the Middle Ages […]”, the word “a” plays the role of an adnominal adjunct, since it is:
( ) preposition.
( ) definite article.
( ) personal pronoun.
Question 5 – In the passage “[…] provoked a true revolution industrial.”, the underlined terms are adjuncts because:
( ) explain.
( ) characterize.
( ) complement.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Letters and specialist in distance education.
