Portuguese activity, aimed at first-year high school students, addresses the verbal transitivity. Do you know when a verb is transitive? When does it have full meaning or when does it need complement? Find out by answering questions based on the Nigerian tale why the sun and moon live in the sky!
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why the sun and moon live in the sky
(a Nigerian tale)
Many, many years ago, the sun and water were great friends and lived together on Earth. The sun often visited the water, but the water never returned its visits.
One day the sun asked the water why it never visited it. The water replied that the house of the sun was not big enough and that if she visited it with all her people, the sun itself would be out of the house.
The water then said: “If you insist on my visit, you're going to have to build a very big house. But I'll let you know soon that it will need to be very big indeed, as my people are numerous and take up a lot of space.
The sun promised to build a huge house and soon after returned to his wife, the moon, who greeted him with a beautiful smile.
The sun told the moon what it had promised the water, and the next day the two began to build a huge house to receive the water and its people.
With the house ready and finished, the sun told the water that she could now come and visit.
When the water arrived, after making sure that it would be safe to enter, it began to pour through the house of the sun, followed by fish and other animals. And many other inhabitants of the water were coming in and flooding the house with the sun. Then again, the water asked the sun if it could keep going.
Not knowing what to say and so as not to appear impolite, the sun said yes. More and more water dwellers came in, until the sun and moon had to sit on top of the roof.
The water once again asked the sun if it would be okay if it kept going in. The sun and moon said yes, and then more and more water dwellers entered.
The water soon reached the height of the roof and, to give it space, the sun and moon were forced to rise to the sky. …
And that's where they still live today.
From the book “The Great Popular Tales of the World”, organized by Flávio Moreira da Costa.
Question 1 - Identify the sentence in which the highlighted verb is transitive:
a) “[…] the sun and the water were great friends and lived together on Earth.”
b) “[…] the house of the sun does not was big enough […]"
c) “The sun Prometheus build a huge house […]"
d) “[…] And that's where they live until today."
Question 2 - The verb, which makes up the sentence identified above, is transitive because:
a) has full meaning.
b) expresses an action.
c) indicates a state.
d) needs complement.
Question 3 - In the context of the Nigerian short story, the transitive verb "returned" points to an action:
a) from the sun.
b) of water.
c) of the Earth.
d) of the moon.
Question 4 – Mark the sentence in which “o” is a complement to a transitive verb:
a) “[…] the sun itself would be outside the house.”
b) “[…] who greeted him with a beautiful smile.”
c) “The sun and the moon said yes […]”
d) “[…] were forced to ascend to heaven.”
Question 5 - Point out the passage whose underlined verb is indirect transitive, that is, it needs a complement with a preposition:
a) “The sun I used to frequently visit the water […]”
B) "[…] started the two of them building a huge house […]"
c) “[…] and then more and more water dwellers were
d) “The water soon has arrived at roof height […]"
Question 6 – A verb is bitransitive when it needs two complements: one with a preposition and the other without a preposition. Underline them:
a) "One day the sun asked the water why it never visited it."
b) “The sun told the moon what he had promised […]”
c) “[…] the sun told the water that it could now visit it.”
d) “[…] the water asked the sun if it could continue entering.”
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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