Portuguese Activity: Verbs in the past perfect tense

Portuguese activity, focused on students in the eighth grade of elementary school, explores the past perfect verbs. What do they indicate in the communicative context? Let's learn? To do so, answer the proposed questions regarding the text railroad rider!

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SCHOOL: DATE:

PROF: CLASS:

NAME:

Read:

railroad rider

Carlos von Ghega was born in Venice, in present-day Italy, on January 10, 1802. He studied at the Faculty of Mathematics and Philosophy in Padua and graduated as an engineer when he was just 17 years old. Since then, railway designs _______________ to be his professional passion and his best known work, the Semmering Mountain Railroad, has earned him fame and the title of Knight. He died in March 1860, aged 59, in Vienna.

“Ciência Hoje das Crianças” magazine. Edition 243. Available in: .

Questions

Question 1 - Highlight the verb in the past tense that composes this period of the text:

“Carlos von Ghega was born in Venice, in present-day Italy, on January 10, 1802.”

Question 2 - In “[…] he graduated as an engineer at the age of 17.”, the past tense perfect verb:

( ) is in the active voice.

( ) is in the passive voice.

( ) is in the reflective voice.

Question 3 - Fill in the space indicated with the perfect past tense of the verb "to pass":

“[…] railway projects _______________ to be your professional passion […]”

Question 4 - In the passage “[…] surrenderedyou fame and the title of Knight.”, the underlined pronoun is:

( ) subject of the past tense perfect verb “yielded”.

( ) direct object of the past perfect verb “yielded”.

( ) indirect object of the past perfect verb “yielded”.

Question 5 - In the part “He died in March 1860 […]", the highlighted expression modifies the meaning of the verb in the past perfect tense, indicating:

( ) place.

( ) mode.

( ) time.

Question 6 – It can be concluded that the verbs in the past perfect tense express:

( ) fully completed facts.

( ) facts in progress in the past.

( ) facts prior to past events.

Per Denyse Lage Fonseca

Graduated in Languages ​​and specialist in distance education.