Portuguese activity, suitable for 8th grade students, proposes the study of indeterminate subject, taking as a reference a text that tells us mythological curiosities.
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Did you know that mythological figures haunted the human imagination? It is because for thousands of years men have found traces of beings that lived in the past and that were associated with monsters and supernatural beings. They were fossils. Only in the last two centuries have scientists realized the real meaning of these challenges.
Dragons, for example, were known in almost all ancient cultures.
It is believed that fossils of pterosaurs, a type of dinosaur, found by the ancient Chinese, helped to sustain the imagination about the existence of dragons. […]
Available at: www.territoriodosdinossauros.hpg.ig.com.br/principal.htm.
Question 1 - The subject is not determined in the following passage:
a) "Did you know that mythological figures haunted the human imagination?"
b) "They were fossils."
c) "It is believed that pterosaur fossils […]"
d) “[…] collaborated to sustain the imagination about the existence of dragons.”
Question 2 - In the segment “It's why for thousands of years […]”, the highlighted term establishes with the previous period a relationship of:
a) opposition
b) cause
c) condition
d) consequence
Question 3 - Explain the occurrence of the accent in the verb “to have” in the excerpt “[…] men have found traces of beings who lived in the past […]”:
Question 4 - In the passage “It is believed that pterosaur fossils, a kind of dinosaur, found by the ancient Chinese […]”, the highlighted part works syntactically as:
a) bet
b) adnominal deputy
c) predicative of the subject
d) nominal complement
Question 5 - In "Only in the last two centuries, scientists have realized the real meaning of these rectums.", the comma was used to:
By Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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