Portuguese activity: Hidden subject

Portuguese activity, aimed at students in the ninth year of elementary school, explores hidden subject. How about analyzing this type of subject fragment of the text Mr. Cuss talks to the stranger? To do so, answer the proposed questions!

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SCHOOL: DATE:

PROF: CLASS:

NAME:

Read:

Mr. Cuss talks to the stranger

I have told the circumstances of the stranger's arrival in Iping with a certain wealth of detail, so that the curiosity aroused by him can be understood by the reader. But, with the exception of two strange incidents, the circumstances of his stay there until the extraordinary day of the community feast may be summed up. There were some disagreements with Mrs. Hall in matters of domestic discipline, but in any case by the end of April, when they began the first signs of penury, he asserted his wishes with the easy expedient of payments extras. Hall didn't like the guy, and whenever he got the chance he advised them to get rid of him; but he showed this dislike chiefly by ostensibly concealing it, and avoiding his guest as much as he could.

WELLS, Herbert George. "The invisible man". 1.ed. Rio de Janeiro: Zahar, 2017, p.163. (Fragment).

Questions 

Question 1 – Underline the following verb:

“I told the circumstances of the stranger's arrival in Iping with a certain richness [...]”

Question 2 – The subject of the verb underlined above is hidden. Identify it:

Question 3 – In the section “There were some disagreements with Mrs. Hall in matters of domestic discipline […]”, the subject is:

( ) hidden.

( ) nonexistent.

( ) undetermined.

Question 4 – In “[…] however it demonstrated such antipathy […]”, the verb expresses:

( ) an action of the hidden subject.

( ) a state of the hidden subject.

( ) a characteristic of the hidden subject.

Question 5 – Point to the segment that contains a hidden subject:

( ) “[…] the first signs of deprivation began […]”

( ) “Hall didn’t like the guy […]”

( ) “[…] whenever I had a chance […]”

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