Portuguese Activity: Intransitive Verbs

Portuguese activity, aimed at eighth grade students, explores the intransitive verbs. When is a verb intransitive? When does it have full meaning or when does it need complement to make sense? Are you in doubt? So, answer the questions based on the curious text Why do bats only see at night?

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Read:

Why do bats only see at night?

In fact, bats don't only see at night. They see by day too. Because they stay awake at night and sleep during the day, the legend arose that they only see at night.

What happens is that bats are active at night and their main source of orientation is not vision but echo-location, a kind of radar. Bats emit ultrasonic sounds that bounce off obstacles, prey, or predators and allow them to locate both the hazard and their source of food.

So now you know. Bats can see both during the day and at night and some of them can see very, very well indeed!

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Questions

Question 1 - In the title of the text, the verb "see" is intransitive because:

( ) has complete meaning.

( ) requires complement without preposition.

( ) requires complement with preposition.

Question 2 - In the period “They see by day too.”, the adverbial phrase “by day” adds to the intransitive verb “they see” the circumstance of:

( ) place

( ) time

( ) mode

Question 3 - Identify the sentence in which the verb is intransitive:

( ) “[…] and they sleep during the day […]”

( ) “Bats emit ultrasonic sounds […]”

( ) “[…] that are reflected in the obstacles […]”

Question 4 – The intransitive verb, present in the sentence above, expresses:

( ) a state

( ) an action

( ) a feature

Question 5 - In the excerpt “[…] and some of them see a lot […]”, the word “very”:

( ) explains the meaning of the intransitive verb “see”.

( ) complements the meaning of the intransitive verb “see”.

( ) intensifies the meaning of the intransitive verb “see”.

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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