Portuguese Activity: Proparoxytone Words

Portuguese activity, aimed at students in the seventh year of elementary school, aims to study the proparoxytone words. Let's understand why they are sharp? Then, answer the questions based on the text about the origin of the word "State", which became to designate the set of political institutions of a society of complex organization.

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state

The word state comes from the Latin status, verb stare, stand up, support yourself. But in Classical Antiquity, the expression to designate the political-administrative complex that organized society was

king statuspub, that is, public affairs in Rome, and cops, in Greece. It was in Modern Europe that the political reality of the national state emerged. And with Machiavelli, the term state began to replace civitas, cops and res public, coming to designate the set of political institutions of a society with a complex organization.

SILVA, Kalina Vanderlei; SILVA, Maciel Henrique. “Dictionary of Historical Concepts”. São Paulo: Context, 2005. P. 115.

Questions

Question 1 - Identify the phrase in which the highlighted word is proparoxytone:

( ) “[…] in Rome, and cops, at Greece.”

( ) “It was in Modern Europe that reality emerged politics of the national state.”

( ) “[…] starting to designate the set of institutions policies […]”

Question 2 - The word proparoxytone, identified above, is:

( ) a noun

( ) an adjective

( ) an adverb

Question 3 - In the segment “But in Classical Antiquity, the expression to designate the complex […]”, the proparoxytone term “Classic” composes an adverbial adjunct that indicates:

( ) mode

( ) place

( ) time

Question 4 – In the passage “[…] was king statuspub, that is, a situation of public affairs […]", the proparoxytone word “public”:

( ) explains the noun “thing”.

( ) characterizes the noun “thing”.

( ) complements the noun “thing”.

Question 5 - In the excerpt “[…] the set of institutions politics […]", the underlined word is proparoxytone because:

( ) the last syllable is stressed.

( ) the penultimate syllable is stressed.

( ) the third to last syllable is stressed.

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

At answers are in the link above the header.

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