Portuguese activity: Demonstrative pronouns

Portuguese activity, focused on students in the eighth grade of elementary school, about demonstrative pronouns. How about analyzing them in the text When size matters? To do this, answer the proposed questions! In “Few, however, know what _________ words really mean […]”, which demonstrative pronoun fills the space?

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PROF: CLASS:

NAME:

Read:

When size matters

The grains that make up the rocks can be of various sizes. And, in order to be able to separate and name the rocks, they are divided according to their sizes.

Everyone has heard, for example, about sand or clay. Few, however, know what _________ words really mean - and will be surprised at what let's reveal it now: they are used only to designate the sizes of the grains that make up a rock.

To call a clay sediment, it must be formed of very small grains, practically invisible, if we do not use magnifying glasses or microscopic ones. After all, just to give you an idea, a millimeter is the measurement found when we divide a centimeter into ten pieces (one centimeter = 10 millimeters). And many grains are much smaller than that.

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Questions 

Question 1 – Identify the passage that contains a demonstrative pronoun:

( ) “[…] they are divided according to their sizes.”

( ) “Everyone has heard of, for example, sand or clay.”

( ) “And many grains are much smaller than that.”

Question 2 – The demonstrative pronoun, used in the passage identified above, is:

( ) invariable.

( ) variable in number.

( ) Variable in gender and number.

Question 3 – The space indicated in the text must be filled in with the demonstrative pronoun:

( ) “these”.

( ) "these".

( ) “those”.

Question 4 – The demonstrative pronoun, indicated in the previous question, was used to:

( ) resume.

( ) announce.

( ) additional.

Question 5 – In “[…] you will be surprised by what we are going to reveal now […]”, the word “the” is:

( ) definite article.

( ) personal pronoun.

( ) demonstrative pronoun.

By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Letters and specialist in distance education.