Portuguese activity, aimed at students in the eighth grade of elementary school, addresses transitive verbs. Let's analyze the verbs that require a complement in the text about the film What happened to Santa Claus? To do so, answer the proposed questions!
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
Read:
Tom, a nine-year-old Christmas lover, discovers that Santa Claus is hiding in his garage after crashing his new sleigh. Willing to help him, Tom asks his father for help, who agrees to take Santa back home. But everything seems to go wrong when the old man is chased by the police.
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Question 1 – Watch:
“Tom, a nine year old Christmas lover, find out that Santa Claus is hiding in his garage […]”
The underlined verb is direct transitive because:
( ) does not require a complement.
( ) requires complement without preposition.
( ) requires complement with preposition.
Question 2 – In the part “[…] after crashing your new sleigh.”, the direct transitive verb is in the form:
( ) of infinitive.
( ) of gerund.
( ) of participle.
Question 3 – Underline the following verb:
“Tom asks his father for help […]”
Question 4 – The verb underlined above is direct and indirect transitive, since it requires two types of complement (objects). Identify them:
a) direct object:
b) indirect object:
Question 5 – In the section “[…] agrees to take Santa Claus back home.”, the verb “agrees” is classified as:
( ) direct transitive
( ) indirect transitive.
( ) direct and indirect transitive.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Letters and specialist in distance education.