Portuguese Activity: Direct object and indirect object

Portuguese activity, focused on first-year high school students, explores direct object and indirect object. How about analyzing these verbal complements in the text about the book Pinocchio? To do so, answer the proposed questions! In the passage “[…] a wooden puppet to keep you company.”, does the personal pronoun perform the function of subject, direct object or indirect object?

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SCHOOL: DATE:

PROF: CLASS:

NAME:

Read:

"Pinocchio"

Geppetto (Christian Rub) is a lonely carpenter who, one day, decides to make a wooden puppet to keep him company. During the night, the Blue Fairy (Evelyn Venable) gives life to the puppet, which passes _________ if it's called Pinocchio (Dickie Jones). Eager to become a real boy, Pinocchio gets into a lot of trouble, despite constant warnings from his friend Jiminy Cricket (Cliff Edwards). The doll has a peculiarity: whenever it lies, its nose grows. Until the day he needs to rescue his maker, when he gets trapped in the belly of a whale.

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Questions

Question 1 - The personal pronoun, highlighted in the passage “[…] a wooden puppet for you keep company.”, performs the function of:

( ) subject.

( ) direct object.

( ) indirect object.

Question 2 - Note the verb in this segment of the text:

“[…] the Blue Fairy (Evelyn Venable) gives life to the puppet […]”

Now identify:

a) the direct object of the verb "gives":

b) the indirect object of the verb "gives":

Question 3 - In the segment above, the verb “gives” required two objects (one direct, one indirect). In this case, it is classified as:

( ) direct transitive.

( ) indirect transitive.

( ) direct and indirect transitive.

Question 4 – Complete the indirect object of the verb "pass" with the necessary preposition:

“[…] it passes _________ if it's called Pinocchio […]”

Question 5 - Highlight the verb that required an object in this text fragment:

"The doll has a peculiarity: whenever it lies, its nose grows."

Per Denyse Lage Fonseca

Graduated in Languages ​​and specialist in distance education.

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