Portuguese activity, focused on students in the first year of high school, addresses personal pronouns. How about analyzing them in the text about the film In some of the past? To do so, answer the proposed questions! In “[…] leaving him intrigued.”, is the word “the” a personal pronoun?
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Millfield University, May 1972. Richard Collier is a young playwright who meets, on the opening night of his first play, an elderly woman, who gives him an old pocket watch and says: “come back to me”. She leaves without another word, leaving him puzzled. Chicago, 1980. Richard is unable to finish his new play, decides to travel without a certain destination and stays at the Grand Hotel. There, he visits the Historic Hall, full of antiques, and is enchanted by the photograph of a beautiful woman, Elise McKenna, who discovers to be the same one who gave him the watch.
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Question 1 – Identify the segment that contains a personal pronoun:
( ) “Richard Collier is a young playwright […]”
( ) “[…] and says: ‘come back to me’.”
( ) “Richard cannot finish his new play [...]”
Question 2 – In “[…] who gives you an old pocket watch […]”, there is a personal pronoun that functions syntactically as:
( ) subject.
( ) direct object.
( ) indirect object.
Question 3 – Watch:
“[…] leaving him intrigued.”
In this passage, the word “the” is:
( ) definite article.
( ) personal pronoun.
( ) demonstrative pronoun.
Question 4 – Underline the following personal pronoun:
“[…] and stays at the Grand Hotel.”
Question 5 – The personal pronoun, used in the part “There, he visits the Historic Hall […]”, resumes:
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Letters and specialist in distance education.