Portuguese Activity: Verbal Voices

Portuguese activity, aimed at students in the ninth year of elementary school, addresses the verbal voices. Active voice, passive voice and reflective voice! How about analyzing them in the text The origin of samba? To do this, answer the proposed questions!

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SCHOOL: DATE:

PROF: CLASS:

NAME:

Read:

The origin of samba

Samba emerged in Bahia, in the 19th century, from the mixture of African rhythms. But it was in Rio de Janeiro that he settled. At the beginning of his story, he was not __________ as a national symbol, as he is today. On the contrary – samba was something for idle people.

A key figure at that time was Hilária Batista de Almeida, known as Tia Ciata. Born in Bahia, in 1854, she moved to Rio de Janeiro at the age of 22, being responsible for taking samba de roda there. Aunt Ciata was also a great supporter of the movement, opening the doors of her house to meetings of pioneer samba dancers when the practice was still prohibited by law.

It was from the beginning of the 40s, with the Vargas government, that samba began to be seen as one of the most important cultural manifestations in Brazil.

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Questions

Question 1 - In the period “Samba emerged in Bahia, in the 19th century, from the mixture of African rhythms.”, the verb is in the active voice to indicate that the subject is:

( ) agent.

( ) patient.

( ) agent and patient.

Question 2 - In “But it was in Rio de Janeiro that he settled.”, the subject of the verb in the reflective voice is a personal pronoun, which takes up:

Question 3 - Fill in the space with the verb “see” in the passive voice:

“[…] he was not __________ as a national symbol, as he is today.”

Question 4 – In the excerpt “[…] she moved to Rio de Janeiro at age 22 […]”, the “if” indicates:

( ) the reflective voice of the verb “changed”.

( ) the pronominal passive voice of the verb “changed”.

( ) the indeterminacy of the subject of the verb “changed”.

Question 5 - The complement of a verb in the passive voice is called “passive agent”. Underline it in this passage of text:

“[…] when the practice was still prohibited by law.”

Per Denyse Lage Fonseca

Graduated in Languages ​​and specialist in distance education.

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