Portuguese activity, focused on students in the ninth year of elementary school, addresses the Indefinite Pronouns. Are we going to analyze the terms that accompany or replace nouns, expressing indefiniteness? To do so, answer the questions that refer to the text. Frog place is… on the forest floor.
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
Read:
Everyone knows that the frog sings at the edge of the river or the pond. But few people suspect that some frogs are content to live far from any large amount of water. They prefer life in the forest, more precisely on the forest floor, under dry leaves and branches. Some sing at the edge of a puddle and others don't even go through the tadpole stage!
“Ciência Hoje das Crianças” magazine. Edition 241. Available in: .
Question 1 - Identify the snippet that contains an undefined pronoun:
( ) “Place of frog is… on the forest floor”.
( ) “Everyone knows that the frog sings on the edge of the river or the lake.”
( ) “They prefer life in the forest, more precisely on the forest floor […]”
Question 2 - In the excerpt identified above, the indefinite pronoun composes a sentence:
( ) additive.
( ) alternative.
( ) adversative.
Question 3 - In “But few people suspect […]”, the indefinite pronoun syntactically exercises:
( ) the object function.
( ) the subject function.
( ) the adjunct adjunct function.
Question 4 – Highlight the indefinite pronoun in this segment of the text:
“[…] in living away from any large amount of water.”
Question 5 - The indefinite pronoun previously underlined:
( ) is invariant.
( ) is variable in gender.
( ) is variable in number.
Question 6 – In the segment “[…] others don't even go through the tadpole stage!”, the indefinite pronoun refers to the noun:
( ) “frogs”.
( ) “branches”.
( ) “tadpole”.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.