Portuguese activity: Verbs in the past perfect tense

Portuguese activity, focused on students in the eighth grade of elementary school, explores verbs in the past perfect tense. Let's analyze this verb tense in the text about Orville Adelbert Derby? To do so, answer the proposed questions!

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SCHOOL: DATE:

PROF: CLASS:

NAME:

Read:

Orville Adelbert Derby

The North American scholar arrived in Brazil in 1870 to participate in the Morgan Expedition, in which he organized important fossil collections in Pernambuco and the Amazon River valley. Later, ____________ to the country to assume the position of assistant to the Geological Commission of the Empire and carried out research in Bahia, Sergipe, Pará and in several other places. After that, he stayed in Brazil, participated in other expeditions, worked in different museums and published several scientific articles until his death in 1915.

Magazine “Science Today for Children”. Edition 218.
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Questions 

Question 1 – Underline the verb in the past perfect tense below:

“The American scholar arrived in Brazil in 1870 […]”

Question 2 – The verb underlined above is in the past perfect tense, as it expresses:

( ) a continuous fact in the past.

( ) a fact completed in the past.

( ) a fact prior to another in the past.

Question 3 – In the section “[…] in which he organized important collections of fossils […]”, the verb in the past perfect tense refers to:

( ) 1st person singular.

( ) 2nd person singular.

( ) 3rd person singular.

Question 4 – In “Later, ____________ to the country to assume the position of assistant […]”, the space must be filled with the verb “to return” in the perfect tense. Tick ​​it:

( ) "it returned".

( ) “returned”.

( ) “return”.

Question 5 – In the part “[…] participated in other expeditions […]”, the verb in the perfect tense is:

( ) direct transitive.

( ) indirect transitive.

( ) transitive direct and indirect.

By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Letters and specialist in distance education.