Portuguese activity, aimed at ninth grade students, about adverbs and adverbial phrases. Let's analyze them in the construction of the text about Thomas Edison, the inventor of the lamp? So, do this activity carefully, made up of several questions!
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Edison couldn't concentrate at all. He always had two or three jobs and spent the day moving around. He loved to exchange messages, and was used to writing short, constant messages, sometimes to more than one person at a time. Despite being a smarter than average guy, he suffered when he needed to read an entire book. To top it off, he ate fast and slept little – and couldn't devote himself to his troubled marriage, for lack of time. Have you identified yourself? Of course, who doesn't have these problems? Spending hours on twitter or cell phone, running around and having little time available for so many things you have to do are dramas that everyone faces. But this is not a bad thing for our time. The boy in the story up there was none other than Thomas Edison, the inventor of the light bulb. The decade was the 1870s and the device he used to send and receive messages was a telegraph. The account, which is in a 1910 issue of the New York Times, says that when Edison finally realized that his problem was lack of concentration, he stopped everything. He shut himself in his office and focused on one problem at a time. Since then, he has produced and patented over 2,000 inventions. […]
Gisela Blanco. Super interesting, July/2012.
Question 1 - In the first period of the text, the author used an adverb and an adverbial phrase that express negation. Identify them:
a) adverb of negation:
b) adverbial phrase of negation:
Question 2 - Look carefully at the sentences. Then, mark the one in which the underlined adjective plays the role of an adverb:
a) “[…] and he got used to writing short messages and constants […]”
b) “To top it off, I ate fast […]”
c) “[…] and he could not dedicate himself to marriage troubled […]”
d) “[…] have little time available for so many things […]"
Question 3 – In the excerpt “[…] sometimes for more than one person at the same time.”, the phrase “sometimes” could be replaced by the adverb:
a) rarely
b) often
c) occasionally
d) simultaneously
Question 4 – In prayer “Of course, who doesn't have these problems?”, the highlighted adverb indicates:
a) a doubt.
b) an affirmation.
c) a conclusion.
d) a comparison.
Question 5 - In the passage “Despite being a smarter guy […]”, the adverb “more”:
a) intensifies the meaning of the adjective “intelligent”.
b) complements the sense of the adjective “intelligent”.
c) determines the meaning of the adjective “intelligent”.
d) explains the meaning of the adjective “intelligent”.
Question 6 – The term underlined is an adverb of intensity in the sentence:
a) “[…] sometimes to more of one person at the same time."
b) “To top it all off, I ate fast and slept little bit […]”
c) “[…] run from one side to the other and have little bit available time […]"
d) “From then on, he produced and patented more of 2,000 inventions.”
Question 7 – In the fragment “But this is not an evil of our time.”, the word “evil” is:
a) an adverb of mood.
b) an adverb of intensity.
c) a noun.
d) an adjective.
Question 8 – In “[…] when Edison finally realized that his problem was lack of concentration, he stopped everything.”, An adverb of time is registered. Mark it:
a) "when"
b) "finally"
c) "realized"
d) "stopped"
Per Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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