Portuguese Activity: Liability agent

Portuguese activity, aimed at first year high school students, addresses the passive agent. It is the complement of a verb in the passive voice! Let's analyze it in the text that tells us the origin of donuts! Do you know that the name of this delicacy comes from doughnut, which in English means "fried donut"? Read this and other trivia and be sure to answer the questions about the passive agent!

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donuts

The name of this treat comes from donut, which in English means “fried donut”. The expression was used by historian Washington Irving in the book

History of New York (History of New York), from 1809, to describe a delight created in the 16th century by _____ Dutch bakers and brought by immigrants to the United States. However, until then, they didn't have the traditional hole in the middle. This only appeared in 1847, created by the American sailor Hanson Gregory. The invention was hugely successful and became a passion in the land of Uncle Sam. That creation earned him a bronze plaque in his hometown of Rockport.

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Questions

Question 1 - There is passive agent in the fragment:

( ) “The name of this delicacy comes from donut, which in English means 'fried donut'.”

( ) “The expression was used by the historian Washington Irving in the book History of New York […]”

() "That creation earned him a bronze plaque in his hometown of Rockport."

Question 2 - Point out the sentence in which the preposition correctly composed the agent of the passive:

( ) “[…] a delight created in the 16th century by Dutch bakers […]”

( ) “[…] a delight created in the 16th century by Dutch bakers […]”

( ) “[…] a delight created in the 16th century by Dutch bakers […]”

Question 3 - The agent of the passive "by immigrants to the United States" is the complement of the verb in the passive voice:

( ) "used"

( ) "created"

( ) "brought"

Question 4 - In the passage “[…] created by the American sailor Hanson Gregory.”, the verb “created” expresses:

( ) an action of the agent of the liability.

( ) a state of the passive agent.

( ) an attribute of the passive agent.

Question 5 - In the prayer “The American sailor Hanson Gregory created […]”, the agent of the passive, present in the previous question, became:

( ) the subject in the active voice.

( ) the subject in the reflective voice.

( ) the subject in the pronominal passive voice.

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

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