Portuguese activity, focused on first-year high school students, explores the verbal transitivity. Direct transitive verb, indirect transitive verb and direct and indirect transitive verb! How about analyzing them in the text green is the color of healing? So, answer the proposed questions! In the segment “Once used by the Indians, medicinal plants relieve symptoms of various diseases”, the verb "relieve" is direct transitive, as it does not require a complement, it requires a complement with a preposition or it requires a complement without preposition? Let's go to the challenge?
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Formerly used by Indians, medicinal plants alleviate symptoms of various diseases
Mariana Alencar
Many, many years ago, there were no doctors, and pharmacies, as we know them today, did not even exist in the imagination of the people who inhabited our country. But then how did these people get cured of illness? The answer to the question is in nature!
With a very rich flora, Brazil has a unique biodiversity. In our forests and forests, we can find plants capable of healing wounds, improving breathing and curing headaches, among many other things. I speak of “medicinal plants”, which are widely used in the preparation of medicines.
If, in the past, our Indians – and other primitive peoples who inhabited Brazil – took the plants directly from the forest and used them to cure diseases, today, the pharmaceutical industry cultivates them and transforms them into medicines, based on detailed scientific studies, which guarantee the safe and correct use of these vegetable.
“MINAS DO SCIENCE” magazine. 2018, p.43. Available in:. (Fragment).
Question 1 - Reread this segment of the text:
"Once used by Indians, medicinal plants alleviate symptoms of various diseases"
In this segment of the text, the verb "relieve" is direct transitive, because:
( ) does not require a supplement.
( ) requires complement with preposition.
( ) requires complement without preposition.
Question 2 - In the sentence “[…] there were no doctors […]”, the subject of the direct transitive verb “there was” is:
( ) simple.
( ) nonexistent.
( ) undetermined.
Question 3 - In “But then, like were these people cured of diseases?”, the underlined word modifies the meaning of the indirect transitive verb, expressing:
( ) place.
( ) mode.
( ) time.
Question 4 – In the period “I speak of “medicinal plants”, which are widely used in the preparation of medicines.”, the verb “I speak” is:
( ) intransitive.
( ) direct transitive.
( ) indirect transitive.
Question 5 - In the passage “[…] they took the plants directly from the forest […]”, the direct transitive verb indicates:
( ) a continuous action in the past.
( ) a sporadic action in the past.
( ) an action fully completed in the past.
Question 6 – Note the terms underlined below:
“[…] at used to cure diseases, today, the pharmaceutical industry at cultivates […]”
The complement of a direct transitive verb is called a “direct object”. In view of this rule, it can be said that:
( ) the first “as” is a direct object.
( ) the second “as” is a direct object.
( ) the first and second “as” are direct objects.
Question 7 – Classify the highlighted verb, listing as directed:
( 1 ) Direct transitive verb.
( 2 ) Indirect transitive verb.
( 3 ) Direct and indirect transitive verb.
( ) “With a very rich flora, Brazil account with unique biodiversity.”
( ) "[…] and the transform in medicines, from scientific studies […]"
( ) “[…] guarantee the safe and correct use of these vegetables.”
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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