Portuguese activity, aimed at students in the eighth year of elementary school, about proparoxytone words. When are words classified in this way? Let's learn? To do this, answer the questions based on the text presented by the creator of the calculating machine!
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Today is the birthday of Frenchman Blaise Pascal. The first real adding machine was built by him in 1642. Philosopher and mathematician, Pascal grew up watching his father busy with hours of tedious calculations. Determined to reduce his father's work (and possibly his own in the future, as he also thought of becoming a tax collector), built at the age of 19 an automatic device that, turning its little wheels, added and subtracted. As accurate and fast as it was for its time, Pascal's calculating machine was never well accepted: the employees, whose livelihood was based on hand calculations, saw the device as a threat to their work and refused to use it.
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Question 1 - Highlight the word proparoxytone in this segment of the text:
"The first real adding machine was built by him in 1642."
Question 2 - The previously underlined word is proparoxytone, because its stressed syllable:
( ) the last syllable.
( ) the penultimate syllable.
( ) the third to last syllable.
Question 3 - In the passage “Philosopher and mathematician, Pascal grew up watching his busy father […]”, the comma indicates:
( ) the intercalation of the terms proparoxytones.
( ) the enumeration of proparoxytone terms.
( ) the displacement of the proparoxytone terms.
Question 4 – The adjective "fast" proparoxytone characterizes:
( ) the time of Pascal.
( ) Pascal's calculating machine.
( ) the threat to the work of calculations at hand.
Question 5 - There is a proparoxytone word in the excerpt:
( ) “Today is the birthday of Frenchman Blaise Pascal.”
() “[…] And possibly his own in the future […]”
( ) “[…] he built an automatic device at the age of 19 […]”
Per Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
