Portuguese Activity: Suffix

Portuguese activity, aimed at 8th grade students, proposes the study of suffix, through fragment of the novel Sad end of Policarpo Lent, by Lima Barreto.

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Read this fragment of the novel Sad end of Policarpo Lent, by Lima Barreto:

He was happy. How simple it was to live in our land! Four thousand reis a year, taken from the earth, easily, sweetly, happily! Oh! Blessed land! How did everyone want to be a public employee, rot in a stall, suffer in their independence and their pride? How do you prefer to live in cramped houses, with no air, no light, breathing an epidemic environment, living on bad food, when one could so easily obtain a happy, full, free, joyful and healthy?

Sad end of Policarpo Lent. 3rd ed. São Paulo: Brasiliense, 1965.

Questions

Question 1 - According to the narrator, these are consequences of life far from "our land", except:

a) “Four contos de réis per year […]”

b) “[…] live in cramped houses, with no air, no light […]”

c) “[…] breathing an epidemic environment […]”

d) “[…] living on bad food […]”

Question 2 - In “[…] taken from the earth, easily, sweetly, happily!”, the suffixes that form the highlighted words indicate:

a) statement

b) time

c) place

d) mode

Question 3 – Check the alternative where the underlined verb is a link:

to him was”

b) “How does everyone I wanted be a public employee […]"

c) “How do you preferred live in cramped houses […]"

d) “[…] when could so easily get a happy, full, free, joyful and healthy life?”

Question 4 - Identify the nouns equivalent to these adjectives:

a) happy:

b) fed up:

c) free:

d) cheerful:

It's healthy:

Question 5 - In the excerpt “[…] when could one so easily obtain a happy, full, free, joyful and healthy life?”, the commas were used to:

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

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