Portuguese activity, focused on students in the eighth grade of elementary school, explores oxytone words. Let's analyze these words in the text the goldfinch? To do so, answer the proposed questions!
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The goldfinch is an 11-centimeter bird. The male is yellow with a very characteristic black mask that facilitates identification. Because of this mask, it is called the black-headed goldfinch in some regions. It also has a hidden stripe on its wings that is visible only when it flies. The female is less colorful, does not have a black mask and instead of a vibrant yellow has more olive green plumage.
He likes to eat seeds, mainly flower seeds and small dried fruits, he loves grass seeds, including picão and dandelion. When not in the reproductive period, it lives in numerous flocks and even mixed flocks, with other species. […]
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Question 1 – Underline the accented oxytone word below:
“It also has a hidden band on its wings that is only visible when it flies.”
Question 2 – Why is the oxytone word underlined above accented?
Question 3 – Identify the passage that contains an accented oxytone word:
( ) “The goldfinch is an 11-centimeter bird.”
( ) “The male is yellow with a black mask […]”
( ) “[…] lives in numerous flocks and even mixed flocks […]”
Question 4 – Emphasis is placed on the word oxytone, used in the passage identified above, because it:
( ) ends in “a”.
( ) ends in “e”
( ) ends in “o”.
Question 5 – Watch:
“When not in the reproductive period […]”
The accented oxytone word is:
( ) a verb.
( ) a pronoun.
( ) a noun.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Letters and specialist in distance education.
