Portuguese activity, aimed at students in the eighth year of elementary school, addresses the paroxytone words. When they qualify like that! Let's learn? To do this, answer the proposed questions based on the text animal fright!
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Some animals react to threats in a way very similar to ours. When they realize they are in danger, they have two options: stay and fight or run as fast as possible! Both options require extra doses of oxygen in the blood and the use of energy reserves stored, mainly, in the muscles. As in humans, adrenaline is responsible for transmitting the signal to the organs to work more efficiently.
“Ciência Hoje das Crianças” magazine. Edition 243. Available in: .
Question 1 - In the excerpt “[…] they have two options: stay and fight or run as fast as possible!”, there is an accentuated paroxytone word. Tick it:
( ) "has".
( ) "fast".
( ) "possible".
Question 2 - Why is the word mentioned in the previous question paroxytone?
( ) Because it has the last syllable as the stress.
( ) Because it has the penultimate syllable as the stress.
( ) Because it has the third to last syllable as the stress.
Question 3 - In "Both options require extra doses of oxygen in the blood […]”, the highlighted paroxytone word is accentuated, because:
( ) ends in “o”.
( ) ends in a vowel.
( ) ends in diphthong.
Question 4 - Identify, in the text on animal fright, the other paroxytone word that is accented by the same ratio as “oxygen”:
Question 5 - Note the following words:
threats - danger - organs
Note that all three words are paroxytones. But only one of them is sharp. Inform the rule that justifies the accentuation of that word:
Per Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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