Portuguese activity, aimed at students in the eighth year of elementary school, explores verbs in indicative mode. What do these verbs express in the communicative context? Let's learn? To do this, answer the questions that refer to the text. Why do some plants close when we touch them?
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
Read:
This type of plant is called sensitive. The cells in the stems that support the leaf have very thin walls and store water. Any stimulus, however slight, disrupts the water balance and the leaf closes. If the touch is too strong, the plant fully bends.
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Question 1 - Watch:
"Why do some plants close when we touch them?"
The verbs are in indicative mode, as they express:
( ) certainties.
( ) hypotheses.
( ) recommendations.
Question 2 - Underline the verbs in indicative mode in this period of the text:
"The cells in the stems that support the leaf have very thin walls and store water."
Question 3 - The indicative verbs underlined above refer to:
( ) to the 1st person plural.
( ) to the 2nd person plural.
( ) to the 3rd person plural.
Question 4 – In the excerpt “Any stimulus, no matter how light, breaks the balance of the water and the leaf closes.”, the verb “to be” is in the mood:
( ) indicative.
( ) subjunctive.
( ) imperative.
Question 5 - In the passage “If the touch is too strong, the plant leans totally.”, the underlined adverb adds to the verb in the indicative mode a circumstance of:
( ) place.
( ) mode.
( ) time.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.