Portuguese activity, aimed at students in the eighth year of elementary school, addresses the verbs in indicative mode. What do they express in the communicative context? Orders, certainties or hypotheses? Let's find out? To do this, answer the questions based on the text. The country that bans gum.
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
Read:
If you ever visit Singapore, don't carry gum in your pocket at all! It is forbidden to chew gum there. Whoever chews gum on the streets can even get a fine.
People caught selling gum there can be arrested and jailed for up to two years! The government decided to lower this rule to keep public places clean: the authorities ___________________ that it is very difficult to clean the gum that is thrown on the floor or stuck in the subway.
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Question 1 - Read back:
"The country that bans gum"
The verb is in indicative mode to express:
( ) an order.
( ) a certainty.
( ) a hypothesis.
Question 2 - Identify the excerpt that contains a verb in indicative mode:
( ) “[…] don't carry gum in your pocket at all!”
( ) “People who are caught selling gum over there […]”
( ) “The government decided to lower this rule to keep public places clean […]”
Question 3 - In the period “It's that there chewing gum is prohibited.”, the underlined adverb modifies the meaning of a verb in the indicative way, expressing:
( ) place.
( ) mode.
( ) time.
Question 4 - In the sentence “Who chews gum in the streets […]”, the subject of the verb in the indicative is:
( ) a relative pronoun.
( ) an indefinite pronoun.
( ) an interrogative pronoun.
Question 5 - Complete the space with the verb "argument" in the past perfect tense:
“[…] the authorities that it is very difficult to clean the gum […]”
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.