Portuguese activity, recommended for students in the ninth year of elementary school, addresses verbs in the past perfect tense. How about analyzing this verb tense in the text How did the numbering of the shoes come about? To do this, answer the proposed questions!
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It all started in 1305. King Edward I of England decreed that three dry grains of barley lined up should be considered as one inch. English shoemakers were enthusiastic about the idea and began to manufacture, for the first time in Europe, shoes in standard sizes, based on such barley grains. A shoe that measured, for example, 37 grains of barley was known as a size 37.
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Question 1 – Underline the verb in the past perfect tense below:
“How did the shoe size come about?”
Question 2 – In the section “Tudo began em 1305.”, the adverbial adjunct adds to the verb in the past perfect tense a circumstance of:
( ) place.
( ) mode.
( ) time.
Question 3 – In “King Edward I, of England, decreed that the measure of three dry grains should be considered as an inch [...]”, the verb in the perfect tense refers to:
( ) to the 1st person singular.
( ) to the 2nd person singular.
( ) to the 3rd person singular.
Question 4 – Watch:
“The English shoemakers were enthusiastic about the idea and began to manufacture, for the first time in Europe, shoes in standard sizes […]”
Identify the verbs in the past perfect tense in this passage of the text:
Question 5 – The verbs identified above are in the past perfect tense, as they indicate:
( ) continuous events in the past.
( ) events completed in the past.
( ) events prior to others in the past.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Letters and specialist in distance education.
