Portuguese activity, aimed at students in the eighth year of elementary school, aims to study the direct transitive verbs. Do you know when a verb is a direct transitive verb? When does it have full meaning? When do you need a preposition complement? Or when you need a complement without a preposition? Did you paint a doubt? So, be sure to answer the proposed questions based on the text. stories in alms, written by Cristovam Buarque.
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
Read:
When they arrived here, the Portuguese brought trinkets to offer to the Indians. Since then, the history of Brazil has been a history of alms from the powerful to the humble.
At the same time that they killed the Indians, the colonizers distributed alms to them.
Independence was also a handout: in place of a Brazilian president, elected by our people, we had an emperor, son of the king of the metropolis.
The liberation of the slaves was as incomplete as alms: they didn't distribute the land, they didn't put their children in school. They were given a handout of freedom.
Our republic was proclaimed, but insufficiently, like alms. It was proclaimed, not constituted. To proclaim it, all it took was a marshal, on top of a horse […]
BUARQUE, Cristovam. “The foreigners”. Rio de Janeiro: Garamond, 2002. (Fragment).
Question 1 - In the excerpt “To proclaim it, all it took was a marshal, on top of a horse […]”, the pronoun “la”, complement of the direct transitive verb “proclaim”, resumes:
( ) "Independence"
( ) “The independence of slaves”
( ) "Our republic"
Question 2 - The highlighted verb is transitive directly in the passage:
( ) “When here They arrived […]”
( ) “[…] we had an emperor […]”
( ) “gavethem an alms of freedom.”
Question 3 - The direct object is the complement of the direct transitive verb. Underline it in these sentences:
a) “[…] the Portuguese brought trinkets to offer to the Indians.”
b) “[…] the colonizers distributed alms to them.”
Question 4 – Point out the core of the direct object in “[…] they didn't put their children in school”:
( ) "your"
( ) "sons"
( ) "school"
Question 5 - To conclude, it can be said that the direct transitive verb:
( ) needs a complement without a preposition.
( ) has complete meaning.
( ) needs complement with preposition.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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