Portuguese activity, focused on students in the eighth grade of elementary school, explores verbs in passive voice. Let's analyze this verbal voice in the text What was the first animal domesticated by man?? To do this, answer the proposed questions!
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The first domestic animal was the dog. Researchers believe that they became man's best friend around 30,000 years ago – initially attracted by the leftover food produced by human groups. Sheep and goats were domesticated nearly 20,000 years after dogs. Cats, on the other hand, only appeared after the emergence of agriculture, when grain storage attracted rodents and, consequently, cats, to live with humans.
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Question 1 – Mark the passage that contains a verb in the passive voice:
( ) “The first domestic animal was the dog.”
( ) “Sheep and goats were domesticated almost 20,000 years after dogs.”
( ) “Cats only appeared after the emergence of agriculture [...]”
Question 2 – In the previously mentioned passage, the verb in the passive voice refers to a subject:
( ) hidden.
( ) simple.
( ) composite.
Question 3 – Watch:
“[…] attracted, initially, by leftovers […]”
Identify:
a) the verb in the passive voice:
b) the adverb that adds a time circumstance to the verb in the passive voice:
Question 4 – Underline the verb in the passive voice in this passage of the text:
“[…] leftover food produced by human groups.”
Question 5 – The complement of a verb in the passive voice is called the passive agent. In the passage above, this agent is introduced by the preposition:
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Letters and specialist in distance education.
