Portuguese activity, aimed at students in the ninth year of elementary school, addresses demonstrative pronouns. Let's analyze them in the text that presents the film The Agents of Destiny? To do so, answer the proposed questions! In “[…] you will need to gather strength to face and face what fate has in store for you.”, which “o” works as a demonstrative pronoun?
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David Norris is a young politician with a promising career, but a scandal has derailed his Senate race. As soon as he loses the dispute for the vacancy, he meets Elise, a ballerina with whom he falls in love. However, men with strange powers to interfere in the future appear out of nowhere and begin to pressure him, so that he does not continue this romance, because this could disturb the future both. Not knowing for sure who these people are, the only certainty David has is that he will need to gather strength to face and face what fate has in store for him.
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Question 1 – Identify the passage that contains a demonstrative pronoun:
( ) “[…] a scandal hindered his run for the Senate.”
() “[…] He meets Elise, a ballerina with whom he falls in love.”
( ) “[…] because this could disrupt the future of both.”
Question 2 – The demonstrative pronoun, used in the passage identified above, is:
( ) invariable.
( ) variable in number.
( ) Variable in gender and number.
Question 3 – In the passage “Without knowing for sure who these people are […]”, the demonstrative pronoun was used to:
( ) retrieve information.
( ) announce information.
( ) supplement information.
Question 4 – In the fragment below, an “o” works as a demonstrative pronoun. Highlight it:
“[…] you will need to gather strength to face and face what fate has in store for you.”
Question 5 – The word underlined above works as a demonstrative pronoun, as it is equivalent to:
( ) "that".
( ) "that one".
( ) "that one".
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Letters and specialist in distance education.
