Portuguese activity, aimed at students in the eighth year of elementary school, explores the compound subject. When does a subject classify that way? When it has more than one nucleus, that is, more than one main word. Let's analyze the subjects composed in the text that tells us the history of salt? To do so, answer the various questions proposed below!
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We can see the importance of the role played by salt, through the records of human history. Its production and use can be found in illustrations and writings dating back to the beginning of civilization.
Salting food was already a widespread custom in Egypt, about 4,000 years before the Christian era. The Greeks and Romans used salt, too, as currency for their buying and selling operations. The Latin word “salary” derives from salt, since in salt a part of the earnings of the Roman legions was paid. Even today, one of the main accesses to Rome is called “Via Salaria”, because it was this way that caravans arrived bringing salt to the capital of the empire.
Until the 18th century, the order of precedence of diners at a banquet was indicated in relation to the solid silver salt shaker placed on the table. At the head, above the salt, sat the host and the most distinguished guests. The less noble ones were below the salt, farther away from the host.
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, salt, in addition to being used as a condiment and medicinal product, became one of the essential raw materials for the chemical and textile industry. Your employment today is extremely varied. It is used for the production of chlorine, caustic soda, kegs, hydrochloric acid, glass, aluminum, plastics, rubber, hydrogen, cellulose and hundreds of other products from the chemical, metallurgical, food and miscellaneous industries others.
Since the Middle Ages, Europeans made fortunes with the spice and introduced the habit of consuming it in Brazil.
The exploration of salt in Brazil only began in 1801.
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Question 1 - Identify the clause in which the subject is composed:
( ) “Its production and use can be found in illustrations […]”
( ) "The less noble ones were below the salt, farther from the host."
( ) “Since the Middle Ages, Europeans have made fortunes with the seasoning […]”
Question 2 - A subject is composed when it has more than one nucleus. In the clause identified above, the nuclei of the compound subject are:
( ) adjectives.
( ) pronouns.
( ) nouns.
Question 3 - In the first paragraph of the text, the verb “datem” refers to a compound subject. Tick it:
( ) “records of human history”.
( ) “Its production and use”.
( ) “illustrations and writings”.
Question 4 – Underline the compound subject in this text segment:
"The Greeks and Romans used salt, too, as currency for their buying and selling operations."
Question 5 - In the segment above, the verb expresses:
( ) an action of the compound subject.
( ) a state of the compound subject.
( ) a characteristic of the composite subject.
Question 6 – Reread this period of the text:
"At the head, above the salt, sat the host and the most distinguished guests."
The subject of the verb "sat" is:
( ) hidden.
( ) simple.
( ) composite.
Question 7 – The composite subjects, analyzed along the previous questions, are present in a text with the following purposes:
( ) didactic.
( ) scientific.
( ) journalistic.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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