Portuguese activity, aimed at students in the ninth year of elementary school, proposes the study of verbal agreement. The challenging questions point to different aspects of agreement that commonly raise doubts! Let's practice?
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What do Brazilians eat on a daily basis? Would you run out of “mix” once a week? There are plenty of reasons to respond to this invitation. The intention is to encourage people to stop consuming meat at least once a week. The idea is good for personal health and for the planet.
A campaign by the Brazilian Vegetarian Society – also adopted by the City of São Paulo – wants to encourage this habit. By decreasing meat consumption, water waste, deforestation, desertification, species extinction, habitat destruction and even entire biomes are reduced at the same time. Livestock is responsible for the emission of about 17% of greenhouse gases on the planet. More than half of the world's __________ food production is destined for animal feed. […]
A meat-free diet favors the prevention of chronic degenerative diseases […]
JORGE, Eduardo. Galileo, no. 2201, Nov. 2009. (Fragment).
Question 1 - Identify the sentence in which the verbal agreement was incorrectly done:
( ) "There are plenty of reasons to respond to this invitation."
( ) “The intention is to encourage people to stop consuming meat at least […]”
( ) “[…], at the same time, water waste and deforestation are reduced […]”
Question 2 - Rewrite the sentence, marked above, according to the cultured norm:
A:
Question 3 - "The intention is to encourage people to stop consuming meat at least once a week." It can be said about this passage of the text that:
( ) the verb “to leave” must be inflected in the singular, agreeing with “the intention”.
( ) the verb agreement was done correctly.
( ) the verb “consume” must be inflected in the plural, agreeing with “the people”.
Question 4 – In the excerpt "More than half of the world's __________ food production destined to feed for slaughter animals.", the space must be filled in with the verb:
( ) é
( ) are
Question 5 - At the end of the text, the verb "favors" agrees with:
( ) “A diet”.
( ) “A meat-free diet”.
( ) “the prevention of chronic degenerative diseases”.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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