Portuguese activity: Verbs in the past perfect tense

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 Invention in the wind? To do this, answer the questions proposed!

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Invention in the wind

The spread of the sewing machine ______ more than a technical revolution. It was also a social revolution. If, on the one hand, the working conditions of seamstresses changed with the replacement of manual work by mechanical work, on the other, the sewing machine enabled the mass production of clothing items, giving rise to a new sector industrial.

Dressing possibilities and habits have changed. Clothes became cheaper and people no longer needed to be rich to have access to a greater quantity of good quality clothes. And all this thanks to Joseph Madersperger, the father of the “mechanical sewing hand”!

Gloria Kaiser. “Science Today for Children” magazine. Edition 217.
Available in:. (With cut).

Questions 

Question 1 – In the excerpt “The diffusion of the sewing machine ______ more than a technical revolution.”, the space must be filled with the verb “to be” in the perfect past tense. Identify it:

( ) "he was".

( ) "it was".

( ) "outside".

Question 2 – In the passage “[…] the working conditions of seamstresses changed with the replacement of manual labor […]”, the subject of the verb in the past perfect tense is:

( ) hidden.

( ) simple.

( ) compound.

Question 3 – In “[…] the sewing machine enabled the mass production of garments […]”, there is a verb in the past perfect tense. Name one that could replace this verb:

Question 4 – Highlight the verb in the past perfect tense below:

“Clothes became cheaper and people no longer needed to be rich to have access to a greater quantity of good quality clothes.”

Question 5 – The verb in the perfect past tense highlighted above refers to:

( ) 1st person plural.

( ) 2nd person plural.

( ) 3rd person plural.

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