Portuguese activity, focused on students in the ninth year of elementary school, addresses the verb modes. Indicative, subjunctive and imperative! What ideas do they express? Let's learn? To do so, answer the various questions that explore the verbal modes in the text Why is there fog?
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Anyone who thinks the fog is a mere horror or thriller special effect is wrong. As much as it suggests a certain mystery, fog has to do with the humidity of the air.
Fog forms when water vapor present in the atmosphere changes from a gaseous state to a liquid state. Therefore, that mist, which sometimes seems to walk, is nothing more than a cluster of droplets, or rather, a cloud that forms very close to the earth's surface.
Fog is something very similar to that smoke that forms in the bathroom when we take a hot shower. What we see in the bathroom is also a bunch of water droplets floating in the air. Want proof? Use your finger to draw on the mirror that is blurry, ie full of droplets stuck to it: does the finger leave a wet trail or not?
The water droplets that make up the fog only form when the ambient air is no longer capable of supporting so much water vapor. In other words, when the air becomes saturated with steam – remembering that the hotter the air, the more steam it can absorb.
There are only two ways in which fogs appear: adding steam to the air – as in the case of a hot bath – and by cooling the air – as occurs on nights when the temperature is much lower than that of the day.
Ricardo de Camargo. “Ciência Hoje das Crianças” magazine. Edition 207. Available in: .
Question 1 - Identify with a dash the verb in this passage of text:
“Fog is something a lot like that smoke […]”
The verb is in indicative mode to express:
( ) an order.
( ) a certainty.
( ) a possibility.
Question 2 - Point out the passage that has a verb in the imperative:
( ) “Whoever thinks the fog is a mere horror movie special effect […]”
( ) “[…] a cloud that forms very close to the earth's surface.”
( ) “Use your finger to draw on the blurry mirror […]”
Question 3 - In the excerpt mentioned above, the verb in the imperative indicates:
( ) order.
( ) suggestion.
( ) recommendation.
Question 4 – In the period “As much as it suggests a certain mystery, fog has to do with the humidity of the air.”, the verb in the subjunctive mood “suggests” refers to the subject:
( ) “certain mystery”.
( ) “fog”.
( ) “the humidity of the air”.
Question 5 - In the segment “[…] the hotter the air, the more steam it can absorb.”, the verb in the subjunctive “for” composes a sentence that expresses:
( ) condition.
( ) proportion.
( ) Comparation.
Question 6 – In the part “Only there is two forms […]”, the subject of the verb in the underlined indicative is:
( ) hidden.
( ) nonexistent.
( ) undetermined.
Question 7 – In “[…] the temperature is much lower than that of the day.”, the verb in the indicative was used:
( ) in active voice.
( ) in passive voice.
( ) in the reflective voice.
Question 8 – The verbs analyzed above are present in the text that aims to:
( ) explain something.
( ) express an opinion.
( ) report a discovery.
Per Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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