Portuguese activity, suitable for high school students, with questions about using the hyphen.
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
1) Use the hyphen when convenient and make the necessary correction of the words below:
01) light year
02) rainbow
03) coarse bush
04) South African
05) well done
06) benefactor
07) newborn
08) shameless
09) co-operate
10) co-ordination
11) self observation
12) pre history
13) unsanitary
14) anti religious
15) inhuman
16) against the rule
17) former director
18) vice president
19) self portrait
20) well created
21) poorly created
23) well born
24) haunted
25) malaise
26) grumpy
27) fennel
28) green beans
29) golden lion tamarin
30) want want
31) I saw you well
2) Check the option where all words are hyphenated correctly.
a) co-thank you, coordinate, co-operate
b) mini-skirt, semi-boarding, semi-hospital
c) sabiá-guaçu, cajá-mirim, capim-açu
d) burgundy, ex-hospital, ex-admiral
3) Match the rule with the word.
A) anti-Iberian
B) panhellenism
C) overseas
D) beloved
E) preschool
F) black pepper
G) pink
( ) The hyphen is used in derived words that have this prefix.
( ) The hyphen is used when the prefix ends with the same vowel with which the second element begins.
( ) The hyphen is used in compounds with these adverbs.
( ) The hyphen is used in compounds with the elements beyond, below, just and without.
( ) Graphically accented tonic prefixes are hyphenated.
( ) A hyphen is used in compound words that designate botanical and zoological species.
( ) A hyphen is used in some phrases whose spelling is consecrated by use.
4) Analyze the words below and tick in the correct answer, then make the correction when convenient:
words |
Right |
Wrong |
Correction |
Superman | |||
haunted | |||
mini-skirt | |||
self Portrait | |||
homeless | |||
beyond tomb | |||
bad seen | |||
dehumidify | |||
micro-system | |||
infrasound | |||
anti-Semitic | |||
microradiography |
By Rosiane Fernandes Silva – Graduated in Letters
At answers are in the link above the header.
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