Portuguese activity, aimed at first year high school students, aims to study the intransitive and transitive verb. Do you know the difference between these two? To improve your knowledge of this topic, answer the questions based on the text. the goose with the golden eggs (Aesop's fable, retold by Ana Maria Machado).
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
Read:
Aesop's Fable, retold by Ana Maria Machado.
Once upon a time there was a peasant couple who had a very special goose. Every now and then, almost every day, she laid a golden egg. It was enormous luck, but before long they began to think they could be much richer if she laid an egg like that every hour, or whenever they wanted.
They talked about it over and over, wondering what they would do with so much gold.
— It's silly for us to keep hoping that every day we'll get out of that goose a little bit… It must have a special way of making gold inside it. This was what we needed.
- That's right. There must be a machine, a device, something like that. If we get it for us, we don't need ____ goose anymore.
“Yeah… It was better to have it all at once. And get very rich.
And they decided to kill the goose to get all the gold.
But inside there was nothing different from the other geese they had seen – just meat, tripe, fat…
And they didn't take any more gold. They didn't even get a golden egg, ever again.
MACHADO, Ana Maria. “The Treasure of Children's Virtues”. Rio de Janeiro: Editora Nova Fronteira, 1999.
Question 1 - The verb “was” has full meaning in the sentence:
a) “Once upon a time there was a couple of peasants […]”
b) "It was very lucky […]"
c) "This was what we needed."
d) “It would be better to have everything at once […]”
Question 2 - In the context of the sentence, noted above, the verb "was" is:
a) connection
b) direct transitive
c) indirect transitive
d) intransitive
Question 3 - The transitive indirect verb requires complement with preposition. Point out the preposition that fills the gap in the clause below, in view of the presence of the verb "needs":
“[…] no longer need ____ goose.”
a) to
b) of
c) with
d) to
Question 4 – The complement of the transitive direct verb is called the direct object. Check the alternative in which the direct object, which makes up the prayer, was incorrectly identified:
a) “[…] she laid a golden egg.” ("a golden egg")
b) “[…] if she laid an egg like that for the time being […]” (“an egg like that”)
c) "There must be a machine, a device, something like that." ("a little machine")
d) "They didn't even get a golden egg, ever again." ("a golden egg")
Question 5 - In the segment “[…] a couple of peasants who had a very special goose.”, the object of the direct transitive verb “had” is:
A:
Question 6 – In the part "But inside there was nothing different from the other geese they had seen - only meat, tripe, fat …", the underlined excerpt works as:
a) direct object of the verb “had”.
b) predicative of the subject.
c) indirect object of the verb “had”.
d) nominal complement.
Question 7 – Classify the highlighted verb in the sentence, numbering as indicated:
( ) “[…] but in a short time they started to find […]"
( ) “spoke on and on.”
( ) “And they decided kill the goose to get all the gold."
( ) “And they don't caught more gold."
Per Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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