Portuguese Activity: Accented Paroxytones

Portuguese activity, focused on students in the seventh year of elementary school, about the accentuated paroxytones. Let's analyze these words in the text about the water lily? So, answer the questions proposed below! Is the word "water" accented because it is paroxytone, is it a paroxytone ending in a vowel, or is it a paroxytone ending in a diphthong? Let's go to the challenge?

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water lily

The water lily – also called gecko, midnight crab and night flower – is an aquatic plant. In very dry years, the plant doesn't even appear, but its lime remains buried in the ground and, if not destroyed by fire, it sprouts again in the flood of the Pantanal. The flower, which is nocturnal, opens for two nights in a row and gives off the smell of acetone, attracting pollinating beetles. These insects are trapped when it closes during the day and, the following night, they fly out full of pollen to visit new flowers, enabling fertilization. After the second night, the fertilized flower withers and the peduncle – the “stem” of the flower – inverts for fruiting in the water. Thus, the seeds are spread through the water and germinate submerged. Its name means “water dweller with pointed petals”. […] To germinate, it needs lightly running water and clayey and fertile soils.

“Ciência Hoje das Crianças” magazine. Edition 247. Available in: .

Questions

Question 1 - The underlined word is paroxytone in the excerpt:

( ) "The water lily - also called lizard […]"

( ) “[…] they go flying full of pollen […]”

( ) “[…] the fertilized flower withers and the peduncle […]”

Question 2 - The paroxytone term "fires" composes a sentence that expresses:

( ) a hypothesis.

( ) a condition.

( ) a conclusion.

Question 3 - The word "water" is accented because:

( ) is paroxytone.

( ) is a paroxytone ending in a vowel.

( ) is a paroxytone ending in a diphthong.

Question 4 – The paroxytone adjective "fertile" characterizes the noun:

( ) "flowers".

( ) “seeds”.

( ) “soils”.

Question 5 - A word is paroxytone when its stressed syllable:

( ) the last syllable.

( ) the penultimate syllable.

( ) the third to last syllable.

By Denyse Lage Fonseca

Graduated in Languages ​​and specialist in distance education.

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