Portuguese Activity: Verbs in the gerund

Portuguese activity, aimed at students in the eighth year of elementary school, addresses the gerund verbs. How about studying verbs in this noun form? To do this, answer the questions that refer to the text about the complainant! Have you ever heard of this animal?

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SCHOOL: DATE:

PROF: CLASS:

NAME:

Read:

complainant

White-lipped peccaries form large groups of 30 to 150 individuals, with reliable references to herds with 500 animals. The area occupied by the group is directly related to the quality of the forest, with a reference of 139 individuals/km² in northern Brazil in areas with an abundance of palm trees.

The eating and behavioral habits of this species contribute to forest dynamics, flora diversity and the protection of other species of fauna. White-lipped peccaries use a wide variety of foods, including fruits, seeds, sprouts, leaves […]

The relationship between peccaries and plants influences recruitment, spatial distribution, and dynamics. population of many plant species, maintaining and promoting botanical diversity in forests. tropical.

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Questions

Question 1 - In the excerpt “[…] there is a reference of 139 individuals/km² […]”, the verb in the gerund could be replaced by:

( ) "making"

( ) “if there is”

( ) "happening"

Question 2 - Underline the verb in the gerund that makes up this passage in the text:

“The white-lipped peccaries use a wide variety of foods, including fruits, seeds […]”

Question 3 - The verb underlined above required complement without preposition. Therefore, he is:

( ) intransitive

( ) direct transitive

( ) indirect transitive

Question 4 – The verbs "maintaining" and "promoting" have as subject:

( ) "The relationship between peccary and plants"

( ) "spatial distribution"

( ) “the population dynamics of many plant species”

Question 5 - The verb in the gerund “promoting” expresses:

( ) an action

( ) a state

( ) an attribute

By Denyse Lage Fonseca

Graduated in Languages ​​and specialist in distance education.

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