Portuguese activity, aimed at students in the ninth year of elementary school, addresses demonstrative pronouns. How about analyzing them in the text the acid rain? To do so, answer the proposed questions!
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Acid rain happens when water comes into contact with sulfur dioxide particles from pollution, turning into sulfuric acid. This type of rain causes serious damage to land and water, not to mention the damage to buildings and anything else that comes into contact with “acid water”. The first observation of this phenomenon was made in 1852 by scholar Robert Angus Smith. Angus identified a relationship between the corrosive rain that fell in Manchester, England (an important industrial city) and pollution. In 1972, the term “acid rain” was used for the first time.
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Question 1 – Underline the following demonstrative pronoun:
“This type of rain causes serious damage to land and water […]”
Question 2 – The demonstrative pronoun highlighted above:
( ) returns an expression.
( ) displays information.
( ) complements information.
Question 3 – Watch:
“[…] and anything else that comes into contact with ‘acidic water’.”
In this passage, the word “o” works as a demonstrative pronoun, as it is equivalent to:
( ) "that".
( ) "that one".
( ) "that one".
Question 4 – The demonstrative pronoun identified above is:
( ) invariable.
( ) variable in number.
( ) Variable in gender and number.
Question 5 – In the part “The first observation of this phenomenon was made in 1852 […]”, there is a term that is the contraction of a preposition with a demonstrative pronoun. Identify it:
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Letters and specialist in distance education.
