Portuguese activity, aimed at students in the ninth year of elementary school, aims to study the passive agent. What is the passive agent? The being who practices the action indicated by the verb in the passive voice! Are we going to learn more about him? Then answer the questions that are based on the text. Noodle Origins!
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
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Pasta dishes have been around since man discovered that he could grind some cereal, mix it with water and get a cooked or baked pasta. And that was a long time ago. References have been found to a food made with cereals and water dating back to 2,500 BC. a., between the Assyrian and Babylonian towns.
Legend has it that noodles arrived in Venice in 1295, brought from China by the famous explorer Marco Polo. However, in 1279, there was already in Italy the record of the word “macaronis”, used by a Genoese soldier in his inventory to describe the food he left for his family.
The most accepted version gives the Arabs the paternity of invention. […]
During the Renaissance period (century. XIV – XVI), pasta was a noble dish, served by the rich at their banquets. […]
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Question 1 - There is a liability agent in the excerpt:
() “Pasta-based dishes have been around since man discovered he could grind […]”
( ) “References were found to a food made with cereals […]”
( ) “[…] used by a Genoese soldier in his inventory […]”
Question 2 - In the excerpt noted above, the agent of the liability is governed by the preposition:
( ) "The"
( ) "in"
( ) "per"
Question 3 - In the passage “[…] brought from China by the famous explorer Marco Polo.”, the passive verb expresses:
( ) an action of the agent of the liability.
( ) a state of the passive agent.
( ) a characteristic of the passive agent.
Question 4 - Highlight the passive agent that makes up this part of the text:
“[…] a noble dish, served by the rich at their banquets.”
Question 5 - Rewrite the above part of the text so that the agent of the passive becomes the subject of the prayer in the active voice:
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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