Portuguese activity, aimed at students in the ninth year of elementary school, explores the oblique personal pronouns. These are those personal pronouns that work as a complement! How about analyzing them in the moving text that tells us about Ediene's hands? So, answer the questions below!
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
Read:
Ediene is 16 years old, with a round, swarthy, Indian face and the pretty face of girls in the northeastern hinterland. Vain, she puts rings on her fingers and paints her lips with lipstick. But Ediene is different. She will never hug, will not date hand in hand, and if she has children, she will not cuddle them in her arms to give them the warmth and nourishment of a mother's breasts. The reason is simple. Ediene has no arms. She lost them in a maromba, a machine from the last century, with two metal cylinders that knead clay to make tiles and bricks in a pottery. The toes she fills with rings are her toes, with which she writes, draws and puts lipstick on her lips. Ediene was still a little girl, working on the infernal machine, when she got distracted and her arms went back to the clay. She is one of hundreds of children maimed every year, working like grown-ups in exchange for meager copper.
FRITZ UTZERI, Jornal do Brasil, Book B, 12/02/99.
Question 1 - In the passage “She you lost in a maromba […]”, the highlighted oblique personal pronoun is in place of:
( ) "the fingers"
( ) "the lips"
( ) "the arms"
Question 2 - Identify the sentence in which “them” is an oblique personal pronoun:
( ) “[…] he will not snuggle them in his arms […]”
( ) “The fingers that fill with rings […]”
( ) “[…] with which he writes […]”
Question 3 - Check the sentence that contains an oblique personal pronoun:
( ) “[…] to give them the warmth and nourishment of their mother's breasts.”
( ) “Ediene was still a girl, working on the infernal machine […]”
( ) “She is one of the hundreds of mutilated children […]”
Question 4 – The oblique personal pronoun, in the previous question, performs the function of:
( ) subject
( ) direct object
( ) indirect objective
Question 5 - In “[…] when distracted […]”, the oblique pronoun “if” indicates:
( ) the active voice of the verb “distracted”.
( ) reflective voice of the verb “distracted”.
( ) the pronominal passive voice of the verb “distracted”.
Per Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
At answers are in the link above the header.
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