Portuguese activity, aimed at students in the ninth year of elementary school, about bitransitive verbs. When are verbs classified this way? When they require two types of complement: one without and one with a preposition! Let's analyze these verbs in the text. The clothes don't make the man? So, answer the questions proposed below!
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
Read:
Mahatma Gandhi only wore a loincloth in order to identify with the simple masses of India.
Once, he arrived dressed like this, at a party given by the English governor. The servants would not let him in.
He returned home and sent a package to the governor, by messenger.
The governor called his house and asked him the meaning of the package.
The little big man replied:
“I was invited to your party, but I was not allowed in because of my clothes. If it's the clothes that count, I ______ send you my suit.”
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Question 1 - There is a bitransitive verb in the excerpt:
( ) “Mahatma Gandhi only wore a loincloth in order to identify with the masses […]”
( ) "Once, he arrived dressed like that, at a party given by the English governor."
( ) "The governor called his house and asked him the meaning of the package."
Question 2 - The subject of the bitransitive verb, identified in the previous question, is:
( ) hidden.
( ) simple.
( ) composite.
Question 3 - Underline the bitransitive verb in this text segment:
"He came home and sent a package to the governor, by messenger."
Question 4 – Identify the direct object and indirect object of the bitransitive verb underlined above:
Direct object:
Indirect object:
Question 5 - In the passage “If it's the clothes that count, I ______ send my suit.”, the verb “send” is bitransitive, having as an indirect object:
( ) "O".
( ) “you”.
( ) "you".
Per Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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