Portuguese activity, aimed at first year high school students, aims to study the past tense imperfect (indicative mode). Does it express continuous, hypothetical, completed or predictable actions? Did you paint a doubt? So, be sure to answer the proposed questions that explore the past tense imperfect in Manuelzão and Miguilim, in Guimaraes Rosa!
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
Read:
Miguilim squinted his eyes. Drelina and Chica laughed. Tomezinho had gone into hiding.
– This little boy of ours has a short sight. Wait a minute, Miguilim...
And the gentleman took off his glasses and put them on Miguilim, very neatly.
- Look now!
Miguilim looked. Nor could I believe it! Everything was clear, everything new and beautiful and different, things, trees, people's faces. I saw the small grains of sand, the skin of the earth, the smaller stones, the little ants walking on the ground from a distance. And he was dizzy. Here, there, my God, so many things, everything… You had taken his glasses off him, and Miguilim was still pointing, talking, telling everything as it was, as he had seen it. Mother was so scared; but you said that it was the same way, except that Miguilim also needed to wear glasses from then on. You drank coffee with them. It was Dr. José Lourenço, from Curvelo. Everything could. Miguilim's heart beat unevenly, he needed to go inside and tell Rosa, Maria Pretinha, Mãitina. Chica came running after him, moved: – “Miguilim, you're piggy…” And he replied: – “Mistress…”
When she returned, Dr. José Lourenço had already left.
Guimaraes Rosa. Manuelzão and Miguilim. “General Field”.
Question 1 - In the period “Miguilim squeeze the eyes. Drelina and Chica laugh.”, the highlighted past tense verbs indicate:
a) continuous actions at the time of speech.
b) hypothetical actions at the moment of speech.
c) actions completed at the time of speech.
d) predictable actions at the time of speech.
Question 2 - In the sentence “[…] put them in Miguilim, with all the best.”, the verb in the past tense “put” has as subject:
a) Drelin
b) chica
c) Tome
d) you
Question 3 - Identify the passage in which the underlined verb was inflected in the past tense:
The) "Wait there, Miguilim…”
b) "Everything was a clarity […]"
c) "Mother been so scared […]"
from him answered: – “Little lady…”
Question 4 – Underline, in the following excerpt, the verbs in the past tense that indicate the actions of the character Miguilim:
“[…] And Miguilim still pointed, spoke, told everything as it was, as he had seen it.”
question 5 – In the prayer “Miguilim's heart beat out of step […]”, the underlined term indicates:
a) the way Miguilim's heart beat.
b) the way Miguilim's heart beat.
c) the time at which Miguilim's heart beat.
d) the intensity with which Miguilim's heart beat.
Question 6 – In the segment “[…] but Miguilim also lacked to wear glasses […]”, the past tense verb “needed” has the equivalent meaning:
a) wanted
b) started
c) required
d) needed
Question 7 – In the fragment “When he returned, Dr. José Lourenço had already left.”, the verb “returned” was inflected in the perfect past tense. It was inflected in the past tense imperfect in the alternative:
a) would come back
b) came back
c) came back
d) come back
Question 8 – The verbs in the past tense, analyzed above, were inflected in the indicative mode because they express actions:
a) suggestive
b) doubtful
c) right
d) probable
Per Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
At answers are in the link above the header.
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