Portuguese activity, focused on students in the eighth year of elementary school, about verbs in the infinitive. Let's analyze this nominal form in the text Possum: Brazilian marsupial doesn't smell bad and eats up to 4 thousand ticks per week? To do this, answer the questions proposed!
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
Read:
What is the opossum's main defense strategy? If you answered “giving off an unpleasant smell”, you are wrong! To scare away predators or other enemies, the opossum growls and shows its teeth. He can still play dead, a strategy known as thanatosis and, contrary to what most people think, it doesn't release any stench.
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Question 1 – Point out the passage that contains a verb in the infinitive:
( ) “What is the opossum’s main defense strategy?”
( ) “If you answered ‘giving off an unpleasant smell’, you are wrong!”
( ) “[…] and, contrary to what most people think, it doesn’t release any stench.”
Question 2 – In the excerpt mentioned above, the verb in the infinitive:
( ) is intransitive, as it does not require a complement.
( ) is direct transitive, as it requires a complement without a preposition.
( ) is indirect transitive, as it requires a complement with a preposition.
Question 3 – Read back:
“To scare away predators or other enemies, the opossum growls and shows its teeth.”
Identify the verb in the infinitive in this segment of the text:
Question 4 – Name a verb in the infinitive with the same meaning as the one identified above:
Question 5 – Highlight the verb in the infinitive below:
“He can still pretend to be dead, a strategy known as thanatosis […]”
Question 6 – The verb in the infinitive highlighted above is:
( ) impersonal.
( ) flexed staff.
( ) staff not inflected.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Literature and specialist in distance education.