Portuguese activity, focused on students in the eighth grade of elementary school, about the passive verbs. Let's analyze this verbal voice in the text that tells us the origin of the Shampoo? So, answer the questions proposed below!
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
Read:
Shampoo appeared in England in 1877 and at first was not a bottled liquid, but a hair massage service, offered by exquisite beauty salons. Even though everyone used soap, water and sodium oxide crystals, the proportions of these ingredients varied from salon to salon and the formula was carefully protected. To use shampoo at home, it was necessary for John Breck, a totally bald American firefighter, put on sale, in 1930, a “hair cleaner” whose formula was _____________ based on detergent (not of soap).
KUKSO, Federico. "The bath was not always like this". São Paulo: Callis Editora, 2012, p.13.
Question 1 - Underline the verb in the passive voice in this period of the text:
“Shampoo appeared in England in 1877 and at the beginning it was not a bottled liquid, but a hair massage service, offered by exquisite beauty salons.”
Question 2 - In the period above, the complement of the verb in the passive voice (the agent of the passive) is introduced by the preposition:
( ) "in".
( ) "in".
( ) "per".
Question 3 - In the prayer “[…] the formula was protected carefully.”, the underlined expression modifies the meaning of the verb in the passive voice, expressing:
( ) mode.
( ) time.
( ) intensity.
Question 4 – Complete the phrase in the passive voice, below, with the participle of the verb “to do”:
“[…] a 'hair cleaner' whose formula was based on detergent (not soap).”
Question 5 - The phrase in the passive voice above refers to a subject:
( ) hidden.
( ) simple.
( ) composite.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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