Portuguese activity, aimed at first-year high school students, explores the subordinate conjunctions. They link dependent prayers together, expressing different ideas! How about analyzing them in the book fragment Through the Looking Glass and what Alice found there, written by Lewis Carroll? Here's one of the questions: In “Alice wanted to go through the mirror, so that saw the beautiful things inside.”, the highlighted subordinate conjunction begins: a conclusion, a finality, an explanation or an alternative? Let's go to the challenge?
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“And now, Kitty, if you just keep quiet and listen to me and don't talk so much, I'll tell you everything I think about the House of Mirror. First of all, there is the room that we see on the other side of the mirror – it's just like our living room, except that everything is upside down. I can see everything when I climb onto a chair, everything except that piece behind the fireplace. Ah, I wish I could see that corner! (…) Well, the books are more or less similar to ours, but the words are backwards. I know this because I once held up a book in front of the mirror and they held one up in the other room too. (…) Oh, Kitty, how nice it would be to cross into the House of Mirror! I'm sure there are beautiful things in there. Let's pretend there's a way across, Kitty. Imagine that the mirror has become all smooth as gauze, so you can go through it. Why, he's turning into a kind of fog, I swear it! It would be very easy to cross…
She was up in the chimney as she said it, though she didn't even know how she got there. And indeed, the mirror was beginning to dissolve, as if it were a bright silver mist.
Lewis Carroll. Translation: Sebastião Uchoa Leite. "Through the mirror and what Alice found there." Publisher 34. Illustrations: John Tenniel.
Question 1 - Identify the subordinate conjunction present in this excerpt, underlining it:
"- And now, Kitty, if you just keep quiet and listen to me and don't talk so much, I'll tell you everything I think about the House of Mirror."
Question 2 - The subordinate conjunction, underlined above, indicates:
a) a suggestion given to Kitty.
b) a condition imposed on Kitty.
c) an explanation addressed to Kitty.
d) an option given to Kitty.
Question 3 - In the excerpt “I can see everything when I climb on a chair […]”, the subordinate conjunction “when” establishes a relationship of:
purpose
b) mode
c) place
d) time
Question 4 - In the sentence "Imagine that the mirror has become all smooth as gauze, and that's how you can go through it.", the subordinate conjunction "how" introduces:
a) a cause
b) an example
c) a comparison
d) a conformity
Question 5 - Check the sentence that the term "how" performs the function mentioned above:
( ) “[…] although I didn't even know how it ended up there.”
( ) “[…] as if it were a bright silver mist.”
Question 6 – In the segment "Imagine that the mirror has become all soft, so that one can cross it.”, the subordinate conjunction underlined is:
a) temporal
b) consecutive
c) proportional
d) causal
Question 7 – At the end of the text, the subordinate conjunction "although" indicates:
a) one fact that occurs in opposition to another.
b) facts that complement each other.
c) a fact that is a consequence of another.
d) opposing facts.
Question 8 – In “Alice wanted to go through the mirror, so that saw the beautiful things inside.”, the highlighted subordinate conjunction starts:
a) a conclusion
b) a purpose
c) an explanation
d) an alternative
By Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
At answers are in the link above the header.
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