Portuguese activity, aimed at second-year high school students, aims to study the types of verbs in the predicate. Linking verb, intransitive verb, direct transitive verb, indirect transitive verb, or bitransitive verb? Do you know how to differentiate them and identify the role they play? How about learning? The proposed questions are based on the joke Weather forecast!
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
Read:
Indians from a distant reservation ask the new chief whether the next winter would be mild or harsh. As the young chief had not learned the techniques of the ancestors, he asked them to gather firewood, and in the meantime he went to call _________ the Weather Service.
– Will the winter be very harsh? - question.
– It seems so – is the answer. And the chief tells the people to gather more firewood. In a week, call again.
– Are you sure the winter will be very cold?
- Absolutely sure.
The chief tells the people to gather all the firewood they find. The following week, he calls again.
- He is sure?
– It will be the most severe winter you've ever seen.
– Why are you so sure?
– Because the Indians are collecting firewood like madmen!
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Question 1 - In the passage “[…] call again.”, the verb “telephone” is intransitive because:
a) needs complement with preposition.
b) has full meaning.
c) needs complement without preposition.
d) indicates an action.
Question 2 - In the sentence "[…] he requested to gather firewood", the underlined direct and indirect transitive verb (bitransitive) was used in line with the language:
a) regional
b) informal
c) poetic
d) cultured
Question 3 - In the segment “[…] was to call _________ the Meteorology Service.”, the verb “to call” is indirect transitive. Therefore, it must be accompanied by the preposition:
a) with
b) to
c) about
d) by
Question 4 – In prayer “– Winter will be very strict?”, the highlighted phrase has the meaning corresponding to the connecting verb:
a) will be
b) would be
c) you will be
d) serious
Question 5 - A verb is both direct and indirect transitive when it needs two complements: one without a preposition (direct object), another with a preposition (indirect objective). Identify them below:
"The chief tells the people to gather all the firewood they find."
a) direct object of the verb “says”:
b) indirect object of the verb “says”:
Question 6 – In the excerpt “– Are you sure?”, the direct object of the verb “is” is:
a) a pronoun
b) an adverb
c) a noun
d) a noun expression
Question 7 – In the part “Indians from a distant reserve ask to the new boss if the next winter […]”, the verb highlighted is:
a) connection
b) intransitive
c) indirect transitive
d) bitransitive
Per Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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