Portuguese activity, aimed at second-year high school students, aims to study the conjunctions. Let's understand the roles played by them in the construction of the text the mystery of the pink house? The activity consists of several questions!
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
Read:
She was a very well-groomed lady, fine and discreet. Few people had entered his pink house, sunny and huge like the imposing mansions of a distant time. Little was known about the life of that woman either, an air of mystery covered the story of such a distinguished person.
One day, however, a thoughtless, almost unreal scene happened. The city woke up to the desperate scream of the woman in the middle of the street, she was very disheveled, still in her nightgown, screaming for help and stumbling over her words. Nobody understood what she was saying, __________ crying and nervousness mingled in her speech. The crowd was getting closer, everyone wanted to be part of that so unexpected situation. Until the lady screamed a name with all her might: “RODRIGO!!!”.
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Question 1 - Identify the phrase in which a conjunction was used to present the lady's characteristics:
a) "She was a very well-groomed, fine and discreet lady."
b) “Few people had entered his pink, sunny and huge house […]”
c) “Little was known about that woman's life either […]”
d) “[…] an air of mystery covered the story of such a distinguished person.”
Question 2 - The conjunction, identified in the previous question, unites:
a) two periods of the text.
b) words of the same prayer.
c) two sentences from the text.
d) none of the above options.
Question 3 - Taking into account the answer above, it can be concluded that the conjunction is:
( ) coordinating
( ) subordinate
Question 4 – In the passage “[…] enormous as the imposing mansions of a distant time.”, the subordinate conjunction “how” introduces:
a) a cause
b) a conformity
c) an example
d) a comparison
Question 5 - In “Little was known about that woman's life either […]”, “also” is:
( ) an additive coordinating conjunction.
( ) a word denoting inclusion.
Question 6 – In the period “One day, although, an unthinkable, almost unreal scene happened.”, the highlighted conjunction is:
a) alternative coordination
b) adversative coordination
c) explanatory coordinator
d) additive coordination
Question 7 – The gap, indicated in the text, must be filled with the conjunction:
a) but
b) for that
c) because
d) neither
Question 8 – In the period "The crowd was getting closer, everyone wanted to be part of that so unexpected situation.", the comma could be replaced by the conjunction:
why
b) why
c) why
d) why
Question 9 – In the excerpt that ends the narrative, the subordinate conjunction “Until” begins a sentence that expresses:
the condition
b) purpose
c) cause
d) time
Per Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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