Portuguese activity, focused on students in the eighth grade of elementary school, about Indefinite Pronouns. How about analyzing this type of pronoun in the text about the worm that causes the yellowish? So, answer the proposed questions! In the period “Whoever has this disease gets a little pale and weak.”, does the term “Who” play the role of relative pronoun, indefinite pronoun or interrogative pronoun? Let's go to the challenge?
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No wonder you are always told to wear shoes. Whoever walks standing on the ground runs risks, such as catching this worm. Their larvae need only a few minutes to pass from the ground, where they are found, to our skin. In the organism, they develop and, as an adult, the
Ancylostoma causes a condition known as yellowing or opilation. People with this disease are a little pale and weak. All because the worm sucks blood and, although it is small, it is usually found in the thousands in the body. So, in total, it takes a lot of blood and also iron, leaving us anemic.“Ciência Hoje das Crianças” magazine. Edition 165. Available in:. (With cut).
Question 1 - Identify the passage in which the underlined pronoun is undefined:
( ) “No wonder they always say to you walking shoes.”
( ) “Your larvae need only some minutes to pass the ground […]"
( ) “In the body, they develop and, as an adult, the Ancylostoma causes a disease […]"
Question 2 - In the excerpt identified above, the syntactically indefinite pronoun:
( ) explains a noun.
( ) determines a noun.
( ) complements a noun.
Question 3 - In the period “Whoever has this disease is a little pale and weak.”, the term “Who” performs the function of:
( ) relative pronoun.
( ) indefinite pronoun.
( ) interrogative pronoun.
Question 4 - Underline the indefinite pronoun in this text segment:
"All because the worm sucks blood and, although it is small, it is usually found in the thousands in the body."
Question 5 - The indefinite pronoun underlined above is:
( ) invariable.
( ) variable in gender.
( ) variable in number.
Per Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.