Portuguese activity, aimed at seventh-year students, aims to study the accentuation. Let's understand why some words are accented? So, answer the questions based on the text about America's biggest feline, the Jaguar!
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Lone animal and the biggest feline in the American continent. In Brazil, jaguars are barely seen in the northeast, southeast and south. Its extent of occurrence is estimated at 8.75 million km², most of it located in the Amazon basin.
These animals ______ disappeared mainly due to the destruction of their habitats and predatory hunting on account of damages caused to the creation of domestic animals. They are often kept alive in situations of torture. In 2008, the IUCN classified the species as “near threatened” with extinction.
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Question 1 - Point out the sentence in which the highlighted word is accented because it is proparoxytone:
( ) "Your extension of occurrence is estimated at 8.75 million km² […]”
( ) “[…] due to the destruction of their habitats and hunting predatory […]”
( ) “[…] to animal husbandry household.”
Question 2 - In “Animal lonely and the biggest feline on the American continent.”, the term underlined is:
( ) oxytone
( ) paroxytone
( ) proparoxytone
Question 3 - The word "lonely" is:
( ) an adjective because it characterizes the “animal”.
( ) a noun because it names an animal.
( ) a verb because it indicates a state of the animal.
Question 4 – The verb "to have" was correctly used in the sentence:
( ) “These animals have disappeared […]”
( ) “These animals have disappeared […]”
( ) “These animals have disappeared […]”
Question 5 - Identify the word that, according to the New Spelling, is no longer accentuated:
A.
Question 6 – The word "losses" is accented to:
( ) indicate a hiatus.
( ) indicate a diphthong.
( ) indicate an oxytone ending in “o”.
Per Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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