Portuguese activity, aimed at students in the eighth year of elementary school, addresses verbs in the imperfect past tense. Let’s analyze this verb tense in the text The hunted hunter? To do this, answer the questions proposed!
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Read:
Arriving at the hill road, Kemp naturally thought it best to descend it, so that his own person was repeating the race he had observed a few days earlier, with critical eyes, from his office in the belvedere. He ran easily into an untrained world, and although his face was pale and sweaty, his head remained fresh and clear. […]
WELLS, Herbert George. "The invisible man". Rio de Janeiro: Zahar, 2017. p.186. (Fragment).
Question 1 – Watch:
“[…] Kemp naturally thought it best to descend it, so that his own person repeated the run he had observed a few days before […]”
In this passage, there is a verb in the imperfect past tense. Identify it:
( ) "he thought".
( ) “repeated”.
( ) “observed”.
Question 2 – The verb identified previously is in the imperfect past tense, as it expresses:
( ) a continuous fact in the past.
( ) a fact prior to another in the past.
( ) a fact completely concluded in the past.
Question 3 – Highlight the verb in the imperfect past tense in this excerpt:
“He ran with ease into an untrained world […]”
Question 4 – The subject of the verb in the imperfect past tense highlighted above is:
( ) a personal pronoun.
( ) an indefinite pronoun.
( ) a demonstrative pronoun.
Question 5 – In “[…] your head was still fresh and with clear ideas.”, the verb in the imperfect past tense refers to:
( ) 1st person singular.
( ) 2nd person singular.
( ) 3rd person singular.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Literature and specialist in distance education.
