Portuguese Activity: Crasis

Portuguese activity, focused on ninth grade students, about the back. Let's study this content through the text faith in africa? To do so, answer the proposed questions!

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SCHOOL: DATE:

PROF: CLASS:

NAME:

Read:

faith in africa

The most widespread religion in Africa is Islam. On the continent, there are about 260 million faithful. Second, in number of adherents, comes Christianity, with 220 million practitioners in Africa, divided approximately fifty-fifty between Protestants and Catholics. Finally, more than 100 million people belong to traditional African religions, whose main characteristic that they are closely linked to nature, with associated deities ____ rains, _____ fertility of the earth, to rivers, etc.

It is important to note that a large number of Muslims and Christians, although belonging to other religions, also follow these precepts of traditional African religions.

“Ciência Hoje das Crianças” magazine.
Edition 168. Available in:
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Questions

Question 1 - In “[…] more than 100 million people belong to traditional African religions […]”, the crasis is:

( ) prohibited.

( ) optional.

( ) mandatory.

Question 2 - Justify the answer given in the previous question:

Question 3 - According to the cultured norm of the Portuguese language, a crasis is not used in phrases formed with repeated words. Identify a phrase that fits this rule in the text:

Question 4 – In the excerpt “[…] the fact that they are closely linked to nature […]”, the crasis occurs because there is a contraction of the preposition “a” with:

( ) the definite article “a”.

( ) the personal pronoun “a”.

( ) the demonstrative pronoun “a”.

Question 5 - In the passage “[…] with deities associated with ____ rains, _____ fertility of the earth, rivers, etc.”, the spaces must be filled in with:

( ) “as” and “a”.

( ) “at” and “at”.

( ) “as” and “à”.

By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Languages ​​and specialist in distance education.