Portuguese activity, aimed at students in the eighth year of elementary school, addresses verbs in the perfect past tense. Let's analyze this verb tense in the text about the book The day Felipe disappeared? To do so, answer the questions proposed!
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
Read:
It all started with an innocent gift. Felipe had received a set of tests from his father to analyze the quality of the water and, eager to debut the gift, ________ to the lagoon where he swam every day to do the first test. Together with his friends, he discovered a terrible environmental crime: the water was polluted. The illustrations in this book are cool and dark, as is the mystery that followed: Felipe was kidnapped.
“Science Today for Children” magazine. Edition 177.
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Question 1 – Identify the passage in which the underlined verb is in the perfect past tense:
( ) "All it started with an innocent present.”
( ) "Philip won from the father a set of tests […]”
( ) "[…] where swam take the first test every day.”
Question 2 – In the excerpt identified above, the verb is in the perfect past tense because it expresses:
( ) a continuous fact in the past.
( ) a fact concluded in the past.
( ) a fact prior to another in the past.
Question 3 – Watch:
“[…] crazy to debut this present, ________ to the lagoon […]”
The space must be filled with the verb “to be” in the perfect past tense. Mark it:
( ) "he was".
( ) “would”.
( ) "outside".
Question 4 – In the passage “Together with his friends, he discovered a terrible environmental crime […]”, there is a verb in the past perfect tense. Locate it:
Question 5 – The verb in the perfect past tense, located previously, refers to a subject:
( ) hidden.
( ) simple.
( ) compound.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Literature and specialist in distance education.
