Portuguese activity, focused on students in the eighth grade of elementary school, addresses pronouns. How about analyzing them in the text Green-throated Hummingbird? To do so, answer the proposed questions!
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SCHOOL: DATE:
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NAME:
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This bird has an unusual ability: it tends to fly backwards. This is only possible thanks to their short and flexible bones, which allow their wings to move in all directions.
It measures between 8.5 and 11 centimeters in length. Despite its small size, it is only intimidated by larger hummingbirds. Both of its kind and smaller ones, it faces aggressively.
To feed, it visits flowers from bushes, vines and isolated trees, but it also adapts to urban environments. He often visits the little bottles of sugar or flowers in backyards and balconies.
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Question 1 – In the section “This bird has an unusual ability: it tends to fly backwards.”, there is a demonstrative pronoun. Identify it:
Question 2 – In “This is only possible thanks to their short and flexible bones, which allow their wings […]”, the term “that” is:
( ) adverb.
( ) pronoun.
( ) conjunction.
Question 3 – Underline the following indefinite pronoun:
“[…] move in all directions.”
Question 4 – In the part “Despite its small size […]”, the possessive pronoun refers to:
( ) to the 1st person singular.
( ) to the 2nd person singular.
( ) to the 3rd person singular.
Question 5 – The personal pronoun, used in the segment “He often visits the bottles with sugar or flowers in the backyards and balconies.”, resumes:
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Letters and specialist in distance education.
