Portuguese Activity: Verbs in the past tense

Portuguese activity, focused on students in the eighth grade of elementary school, explores the verbs in past tense. What do these verbs indicate in the communicative context, huh? Let's learn? To do this, answer the questions that refer to the text about the transforming principle!

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SCHOOL: DATE:

PROF: CLASS:

NAME:

Read:

transforming principle

In 1928, British physician Frederick Griffith took an important step in the history of DNA. It worked with certain bacteria (Streptococcus pneumoniae) which, as the name suggests, caused a type of pneumonia. But these bacteria could be of two types: one was aggressive and killed the animals used in the experiments and the other had no effect.

What Griffith found was that if the aggressive bacteria were destroyed and its contents were brought into contact with the type that didn't cause pneumonia, it would turn aggressive. This simple experiment showed the existence of a “transforming principle” that did the magic of changing non-aggressive to aggressive. From there, many people _____________ know the identity of the “transforming principle”.

“Ciência Hoje das Crianças” magazine. Edition 248. Available in: .

Questions

Question 1 - Underline the verb in the past tense in this period of the text:

“He worked with certain bacteria (Streptococcus pneumoniae) which, as the name suggests, caused a type of pneumonia.”

Question 2 - The underlined verb above was used in the past tense to indicate:

( ) a continuous fact in the past.

( ) a sporadic fact in the past.

( ) a fact completely closed in the past.

Question 3 - In the phrase “[…] an aggressive era […]”, the verb in the past tense is:

( ) binding.

( ) intransitive.

( ) direct transitive.

Question 4 – In “[…] if the aggressive bacteria were destroyed […]”, the verb in the past tense makes up a sentence that expresses:

( ) a condition.

( ) a conclusion.

( ) an adversity.

Question 5 - Complete the space with the verb "want" in the imperfect tense of the indicative:

"From there, many people _____________ know the identity of the 'transforming principle'."

Per Denyse Lage Fonseca

Graduated in Languages ​​and specialist in distance education.

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