Portuguese activity, aimed at ninth grade students, addresses the reflective voice verbs. What does this verbal voice indicate? That the subject is an agent or patient of verbal action? Or both? Are you in doubt? So, be sure to answer the questions based on the curious text. Toads bite?
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
Read:
The vast majority of frog species do not bite. These animals defend themselves in several ways: they pretend to be dead, use poison or try to escape. But some frogs can bite, yes. Mainly horn toads, of a genus called Ceratophrys. popularly called pacman toads.
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Question 1 - Identify the sentence that has a verb in the reflective voice:
( ) “[…] pretend to be dead […]”
( ) “[…] they use poison […]”
( ) “[…] or they try to run away.”
Question 2 - In the sentence identified above, the verb in the reflective voice expresses:
( ) an action of frogs.
( ) a state of frogs.
( ) a characteristic of frogs.
Question 3 - In the text above, the verb in the reflective voice "defend themselves" has as its subject:
( ) “The vast majority of frog species”.
( ) "These animals".
( ) “some frogs”.
Question 4 – The verb in the reflective voice "to defend themselves" was used in the mode:
( ) indicative, as it expresses a certainty.
( ) subjunctive, as it expresses a hypothesis.
( ) imperative, as it expresses an order.
Question 5 - It can be concluded that there is a reflective voice when:
( ) the subject is the agent of the action expressed by the verb.
( ) the subject is a patient of the action expressed by the verb.
( ) the subject is the agent and patient of the action expressed by the verb.
Question 6 – The “if” that indicates the reflective voice is:
( ) an article
( ) a pronoun
( ) a preposition
Per Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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