Portuguese activity: adverbial tense adjunct

Portuguese activity, aimed at eighth grade students, addresses the adverbial tense adjunct. Are we going to analyze those expressions that add a time circumstance to verbs? So, answer the questions based on the curious text Who invented the hour?

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SCHOOL: DATE:

PROF: CLASS:

NAME:

Read:

Who invented the hour?

The first time stamp was made by the Egyptians, around 3500 BC. From an obelisk (a long object placed on the ground), they noticed that, at a certain time of day, the sunlight was stronger and the shadow of the obelisk shorter. This period was called noon. Then, they divided the period into 12 parts (six before and six after noon). Then, they attributed to the night period the same amount of parts given to the day – thus creating the 24 hours, used until today.

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Questions

Question 1 - Point out the passage in which the term underlined plays the role of adverbial time adjunct:

( ) “Who invented the hour?”

( ) “This period was given the name of noon.”

( ) “[…] thus creating the 24 hours, used up to today.”

Question 2 - The adverbial tense "around 3500 BC" points to a fact. Identify it:

A.

Question 3 - Look carefully at this fragment of text. Afterwards, underline the adverbial tense that composes it:

“[…] they noticed that, at a certain time of day, the sunlight was stronger and the shadow of the obelisk shorter.”

Question 4 – The adverbial adjunct, underlined above, adds a time circumstance:

( ) to the verb “perceived”.

( ) to the adjective “solar”.

( ) to the verb “stayed”.

Question 5 - In the segment “After, they divided the period into 12 parts […]”, the adverbial tense “After” modifies the sense of a verb that expresses:

( ) an action of the Egyptians.

( ) a state of the Egyptians.

( ) a characteristic of the Egyptians.

Per Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages ​​and specialist in distance education.

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