Portuguese activity, focused on eighth grade students, aims to study the proparoxytone words. When do words rank this way? When their stressed syllable is the third to last syllable! How about analyzing them in the text about the ancient astronomy? So, answer the questions proposed below!
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Speculations about the nature of the Universe must date back to prehistoric times, which is why astronomy is often considered the oldest of the sciences. Since ancient times, the sky has been used as a map, calendar and clock. The oldest astronomical records date back to approximately 3000 BC. Ç. and they are due to the Chinese, Babylonians, Assyrians and Egyptians. At that time, stars were studied for practical purposes, such as measuring the passage of time (making calendars) to predict the best time for planting and harvesting, or with objectives more related to astrology, such as making predictions of the future, since not having any knowledge of the laws of nature (physics), believed that the sky gods had the power of harvest, rain and even life.
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Question 1 - Identify the passage in which the underlined word is proparoxytone:
( ) “[…], the sky has been used as a map, calendar and watch."
( ) "The records astronomical oldest date from approximately 3000 BC. Ç. […]”
( ) “[…] and they are due to the Chinese, Babylonians, Assyrians and Egyptians.”
Question 2 - In the part “[…] prehistoric times […]”, the term proparoxytone forms a compound:
( ) with an adjective function.
( ) with adverbial function.
( ) with a substantive function.
Question 3 - In “In that era, the stars were studied […]”, the underlined proparoxytone word composes:
( ) a bet.
( ) a vocative.
( ) an adverbial adjunct.
Question 4 - Identify in the text the word proparoxytone that indicates an area of knowledge:
Question 5 - In the passage “[…] practical objectives, such as measuring the passage of time […]”, the proparoxytone word:
( ) agrees in gender with the noun “goals”.
( ) agrees in number with the noun “goals”.
( ) agrees in gender and number with the noun “goals”.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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