Portuguese activity, aimed at students in the seventh year of elementary school, about proparoxytone words. Let's analyze these words in the text fruit collection? To do this, answer the proposed questions!
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Read:
Collecting seeds from all over the world may seem like a strange activity, to say the least, but it is not the only one. Many scientific institutions have carpotecs – a nice name to call their fruit collections! Preserved in liquid or dry, they are available to researchers to carry out studies on the plants or visitors who just want to quench their curiosity. […]
Magazine “Science Today for Children”. Edition 249.
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Question 1 – Watch:
“Collecting seeds from all over the world can seem like a strange activity, to say the least […]”
Indicate the reason for the accentuation of the word used in this passage:
( ) The word is proparoxytone.
( ) The word is oxytone ending in “o”.
( ) The word is paroxytone ending in a diphthong.
Question 2 – The proparoxytone word “unique” agrees with:
Question 3 – In the text, there is a proparoxytone word that was transcribed without the accent. Identify it and place the said accent:
Question 4 – Underline the following proparoxytone word:
“Many scientific institutions have carpotheques […]”
Question 5 – The term proparoxytone, used in the segment “[…] a nice name to call your fruit collections!”, is:
( ) a verb.
( ) an adjective.
( ) a noun.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Letters and specialist in distance education.