Portuguese activity: Indefinite pronouns

Portuguese activity, focused on students in the ninth year of elementary school, about Indefinite Pronouns. How about analyzing these pronouns in the text? Rice, beans and… lots of debate!? To do this, answer the questions proposed! In the part “[…] whoever develops these products guarantees that they are safe for consumption […]”, is the pronoun “who” undefined?

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SCHOOL: DATE:

PROF: CLASS:

NAME:

Read:

Rice, beans and… lots of debate!

Transgenic foods scare many people. On the one hand, whoever develops these products guarantees that they are safe for consumption; On the other hand, there are people saying that they can be dangerous for health and also for the environment. When scientists announced that they had developed a bean variety by engineering genetics – the first 100% national transgenic food –, the controversy reached the Brazilians. There was even a vote to decide whether or not producers could sell the new beans! […]

“Science Today for Children” magazine. Edition 248.
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Questions 

Question 1 – Identify the passage that contains an indefinite pronoun:

( ) “Rice, beans and… lots of debate!”

( ) “[…] there are people saying that they can be dangerous […]”

( ) “[…] the controversy reached Brazilians’ plates.”

Question 2 – The indefinite pronoun, used in the previously identified excerpt, is:

( ) invariable.

( ) variable in number.

( ) variable in gender and number.

Question 3 – In the part “[…] whoever develops these products guarantees that they are safe for consumption […]”, the pronoun “who” is:

( ) relative.

( ) Undefined.

( ) interrogative.

Question 4 – Watch:

“[…] on the other hand, there are people saying that they can be dangerous for health and also for the environment.”

Locate the indefinite pronoun in this segment of the text:

Question 5 – In the segment above, the indefinite pronoun refers to the noun:

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