Portuguese activity, aimed at ninth grade students, aims to study the verb types in the predicate. Do you know when a verb is intransitive, direct transitive, indirect transitive, direct and indirect transitive, or a linking verb? Let's understand? The various questions proposed are based on the text the boy and the rainbow, written by Ferreira Gullar.
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
Read:
He was once a curious and bored boy. He started getting scared by the chairs, tables and other household objects. He felt them, bit them and threw them on the ground: he certainly expected an answer that the objects did not give him. He discovered some more interesting objects than shoes: cups – these, when thrown on the ground, would break. It was something, at least they didn't stay the same after the action. But soon the boy (who was deeply bored) got tired of the glasses: after all it was glass and only glass.
Later he was able to move into the backyard and discovered the chickens and plants. They were already more interesting, especially the chickens, who spoke an incomprehensible language and pecked at the ground. He got to know the turkey, the guinea hen and the peacock. But he soon got used to them all, and remained bored as usual.
He didn't think, he didn't question with words, but he was endlessly exploring reality.
When he was able to go out into the street, he had new hopes: one day he escaped and covered as much space as possible, streets, squares, squares where boys played football, he saw churches, cars and a tractor that modified a ground. It got lost. She ran away again to see the tractor working. But behold, the work of the tractor became commonplace: conventional flower beds, a bandstand, etc. And the boy got tired of the street, went back to his backyard.
Boredom led the boy to games of chance, bathing in the sea and trips to the other side of the river. The margin there was the same as this one. The boy grew up and, in love as in the movies, he did not find what he was looking for. One day, passing by a stream, he saw that the waters were colored. She went down the bank, examined: they were colored!
Since then, every day he managed to see the colors of the stream. But when someone told her that the color of the waters came from a nearby laundry, she started screaming no, that the waters came from the rainbow. He was taken to the asylum. And?
GULLAR, Ferreira. “The boy and the rainbow”. São Paulo: Attica, 2001. P. 5.
Question 1 - In the excerpt “Touching them, biting them and throwing them on the ground […]”, the term “them” takes up the complement of the verbs “palpar”, “bite” and “play”. Identify it:
A:
Question 2 - The verb “was” is intransitive in:
a) "he was once a curious and bored boy."
b) “It was already something […]”
c) “[…] after all it was glass and only glass.”
d) "The margin there was the same as this one."
Question 3 - In the passage “[…] and he continued to be bored as usual.”, the verb “continued” indicates:
a) an action of the boy.
b) an attribute of the boy.
c) a way of being of the boy.
d) a state of the boy.
Question 4 – Classify the verb that makes up the sentence, numbering as indicated:
( ) “[…] an answer that the objects did not give him.”
() “But he soon got used to them all […]”
() “[…] But he endlessly explored reality.”
() "He ran away again to see the tractor working."
( ) “Boredom led the boy to games of chance […]”
Question 5 - To conclude, list:
( ) needs complement with preposition.
( ) links the predicative to the subject.
( ) needs two complements: one with and one without a preposition.
( ) has complete meaning.
( ) needs a complement without a preposition.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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