Portuguese activity, aimed at first year high school students, guides the verb syntactic analysis. Connecting verb, intransitive, direct transitive, indirect transitive or bitransitive? Are you in doubt? Let's differentiate them and understand the role they play in the text chameleon colorto the? So, answer the various questions proposed below!
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Verbs: connecting, intransitive, direct transitive, indirect transitive and bitransitive
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Once upon a time there was a chameleon that did not change color.
The chameleon tried to eat everything he could think of: blue flies, green crickets, and even shiny beetles. And he ended up getting sick, he got yellow fever. But the yellow was gone with the fever, and the chameleon didn't change color.
So he decided to travel by plane far away, to the country of roses and violets. Then he took a ship to see if the sway or the sea breeze would make him change.
He went to ask experts in big cities for advice. He spoke to doctors, seamstresses, dyers. He came back unanswered, sad and lonely.
And like every day, he went to the garden to eat carrots. But that day, on the other side of the flowerbed, for the first time he encountered another chameleon.
Little by little, they changed color together, and disappeared in the country of chameleons.
DAHER, Andréia. “Chameleon color”. São Paulo: Companhia das Letrinhas, 1998. (Fragment).
Question 1 - The expression “Once upon a time” is very common in the introduction of stories. In this communicative context, the verb “Era” has the full meaning. Therefore, he is:
a) binding.
b) intransitive.
c) direct transitive.
d) indirect transitive.
Question 2 - In the passage “And it's over staying sick […]”, the highlighted connecting verb indicates:
a) a way of being of the chameleon.
b) a characteristic of the chameleon.
c) a state of the chameleon.
d) an action of the chameleon.
Question 3 - The verb “getting” links the word “sick” to the subject. It is called:
a) adverbial adjunct.
b) Adjunct Adnominal.
c) predicative of the subject.
d) predicative of the object.
Question 4 - In the sentence “[…] caught yellow fever.”, the verb “got” is:
a) binding because it indicates a state of the subject.
b) direct transitive because it needs a complement without a preposition.
c) indirect transitive because it needs a complement with a preposition.
d) is intransitive because it has full meaning.
Question 5 - In the period “I went to ask for advice from specialists in large cities.”, the verb “to ask” requires two complements: one without a preposition (direct object), another with a preposition (indirect object). Identify:
a) the direct object of the verb "ask":
b) the indirect object of the verb "ask":
Question 6 – Number the sentences below according to the orientation, given the predication of the underlined verbs:
(1) Intransitive verb
(2) Direct transitive verb
(3) Indirect transitive verb
(4) Direct and indirect transitive verb (bitransitive)
(5) Connecting Verb
( ) "Later took a ship to see if the sway or the sea breeze […]"
( ) “He spoke with doctors, seamstresses, dyers.”
( ) “[…] for the first time he it found another chameleon."
( ) “It returned no answers, sad and lonely.”
( ) “And like every day, he went to the garden eat carrots."
( ) "Little by little, were changing of color close together […]"
( ) "[…] and disappeared in the country of chameleons.”
Per Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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