Portuguese Activity: Proparoxytone Words

Portuguese activity, focused on students in the eighth year of elementary school, addresses the proparoxytone words. When do they rank that way? When their stressed syllable is the third to last syllable! Let's analyze the proparoxytones in the text What is acid rain? To do this, answer the proposed questions!

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SCHOOL: DATE:

PROF: CLASS:

NAME:

Read:

What is acid rain?

Acid rain is one of the main consequences of air pollution. Burning coal or oil releases gaseous residues such as nitrogen and sulfur oxides. The reaction of these substances with water forms nitric acid and sulfuric acid, present in acid rain precipitation. This phenomenon has grown significantly in countries undergoing an industrialization process, such as Brazil, Russia, China, Mexico and India. Great Britain and Germany being the two countries with the greatest interest in ending acid rain.

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Questions

Question 1 - In the period that introduces the text, there is a word proparoxytone. Underline it:

"Acid rain is one of the main consequences of air pollution."

Question 2 - The underlined word above is proparoxytone because:

( ) the last syllable is stressed.

( ) the penultimate syllable is stressed.

( ) the third to last syllable is stressed.

Question 3 – In “[…] as nitrogen and sulfur oxides.”, the term proparoxytone “oxides”:

( ) composes a conclusion.

( ) composes a comparison.

( ) composes an example.

Question 4 - In the part “[…] the acid nitric and acid sulfuric […]", the underlined proparoxytones are:

( ) verbs.

( ) adjectives.

( ) nouns.

Question 5 - Identify the name of the country that is proparoxytone:

( ) "Russia".

( ) "Mexico".

( ) “India”.

Question 6 – Point out the passage where the underlined word is proparoxytone:

( ) "The reaction of these substances with the water […]"

( ) "That phenomenon has grown significantly in countries […]”

( ) “Being Great Britain and Germany the two countries with greater interest […]"

Per Denyse Lage Fonseca Graduated in Languages ​​and specialist in distance education.

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