Portuguese activity, aimed at ninth grade students, explores the personal pronouns. Let's analyze the functions they play in the communicative context? Then answer the questions based on fragment of The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas, romance of Machado de Assis!
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
Read:
The baroness was one of the people who distrusted us most. Fifty-five years old, who looked forty, soft, smiling, vestiges of beauty, elegant bearing and fine manners. She didn't talk much not always; she had the great art of listening to others, spying on them; she would then lean back in her chair, unsheath a long, sharp look, and let herself be. The others, not knowing what it was, spoke, looked, gestured, while she looked alone, now fixed, now mobile, taking cunning to the point of looking sometimes into _____, because she dropped the eyelids; but as the eyelashes were kneecaps, the gaze continued its business, stirring the souls and lives of others.
Machado de Assis, “Posthumous Memories of Brás Cubas”.
Question 1 - There is a personal pronoun in the passage:
( ) "The baroness was one of the people who most distrusted us."
( ) “Fifty-five years, which felt like forty […]”
( ) “[…] the look continued its craft […]”
Question 2 - In the passage above, the personal pronoun performs the function of:
( ) subject
( ) direct object
( ) indirect object
Question 3 – […] while she was looking only […]”. Identify the referent of the personal pronoun "she" in this sentence:
A.
Question 4 – Point out the phrase where "os" is a personal pronoun:
( ) “[…] had the great art of listening to others […]”
( ) “[…] spying on them; then he leaned back in his chair […]"
( ) “The others, not knowing what it was […]”
Question 5 - In the sentence mentioned above, the personal pronoun "os" takes up:
Question 6 – Paying attention to the context, it can be said that the space indicated must be filled with the oblique personal pronoun:
( ) "me"
( ) "you"
( ) "if"
Per Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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