Portuguese activity, focused on ninth grade students, addresses personal pronouns. How about analyzing this type of pronoun in the text Santa Claus exists? So, answer the proposed questions! In the segment “He was declared a saint after many miracles _____ were attributed.”, should the space be filled with the personal pronoun “o”, “te” or “lhe”?
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Yes. It was inspired by Bishop Nicholas, who lived and pontificated in the city of Myra, Turkey, in the fourth century. Nicolau used to anonymously help anyone who was in financial difficulties. He placed the bag of gold coins to be offered in the chimneys of the houses. He was declared a saint after many _____ miracles were attributed. Its transformation into a Christmas symbol happened in Germany and from there the world went. In the United States, the tradition of the old man with a long beard and red clothes who rides a sleigh pulled by a reindeer gained strength. The Santa Claus figure we know today was the work of cartoonist Thomas Nast, in Harper's Weeklys magazine, in 1881.
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Question 1 - Mark the passage where the highlighted pronoun is personal:
( ) “He it was inspired by Bishop Nicolas, who lived and pontificated in the city of Myra […]”
( ) “Nicolau used to help, anonymously, who was in financial difficulties.”
( ) “Your transformation into a Christmas symbol happened in Germany and from there the world went.”
Question 2 - In the excerpt marked above, the personal pronoun refers to:
( ) to Santa Claus.
( ) to Bishop Nicholas.
( ) to cartoonist Thomas Nast.
Question 3 - In the segment “He was declared a saint after many _____ miracles were attributed.”, the space must be filled in with the personal pronoun:
( ) "O".
( ) “you”.
( ) "you".
Question 4 – The personal pronoun, which completes the segment in the previous question, performs the syntactic function of:
( ) subject.
( ) direct object.
( ) indirect object.
Question 5 - In the part “The figure of Santa Claus that We know today it was the work of cartoonist Thomas Nast […]”, the subject of the underlined verb is a personal pronoun that is hidden. Identify it:
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.