Portuguese activity, aimed at ninth grade students, aims to study the adverbs. They modify the meaning of verbs, adjectives or adverbs! How about learning more about them? So, here's the invitation for you to answer the questions based on the text Saturday afternoon, written by Cecília Meireles!
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The Saturday afternoon, a little gray, a little cold, seems to have nothing very private for anyone. Cars slide; people go in and out of theaters; boyfriends talk here and there; the bars are active, with a fabulous production of sandwiches and hot dogs. Despite the freshness, the girls wear golden sandals on their feet, while wrapping their heads in scarves with many twists.
This is all routine. There is a certain air of monotony throughout. The Sugarloaf Mountain cable car there is fulfilling its tourist destination, and well-spoken young men explain, pencil in hand, in their colorful and glassed-in offices, apartments that will be built in a few months, with so many floors, views to all sides, marble halls, so much entrance, plus so many installments, no readjustment – the best use of capital ever offered! (…)
Small boats walk across the bay, with a ray of sunlight shining on the sails; there are some fishermen loaded with lines, ferns, reeds, very keen on their skill; there are whole families who don't know where they come from or even imagine where they are going, and who occupy a lot of space on the sidewalk, with their mouths full of things that must be candies, caramels, popcorn, that pass from one cheek to the other and must make them delicious infinite.
Cecília Meireles. “Choose your dream”. Rio de Janeiro: Editora Record, 2002. (Fragment).
Question 1 - At the beginning of the text, the author characterizes the Saturday afternoon. To this end, she uses adverbs that intensify the meaning of those characteristics. Underline them:
"The Saturday afternoon, a little gray, a little cold, seems to have nothing very private for anyone."
Question 2 - In the passage “[…] the bars work actively, in a fabulous production of sandwiches and hot dogs.”, the highlighted adverb indicates:
a) the place where the bars work.
b) how long the bars work.
c) the way bars work.
d) the way the bars work.
Question 3 - In the prayer “[…] the lovers talk here and there […]”, “here” and “there” perform the function of:
a) place adverbs
b) adverbs of mood
c) adverbs of time
d) affirmation adverbs
Question 4 – In the text above, the intensity adverb "well" modifies the meaning of the adjective "speakers", which characterizes:
a) “the people who enter and leave the cinemas”.
b) “boyfriends who talk here and there”.
c) “the girls who wear golden sandals on their feet”.
d) “young men explaining, pencil in hand, in their colorful and glazed offices”.
Question 5 - In the fragment “[…] the best use of capital never offered!”, the underlined adverb expresses:
a) denial
b) time
c) cause
d) doubt
Question 6 – In “[…] there are whole families who do not know where they come from […], the term “where” is:
a) a relative pronoun
b) an adverb of place
c) an indefinite pronoun
d) an interrogative adverb
Question 7 – In the excerpt “[…] the girls wear golden sandals on their feet while they wrap their heads […]”, the word “while” is:
a) a noun
b) a preposition
c) an adverb of time
d) a temporal subordinative conjunction
Question 8 – Check the sentence in which the term "a lot" is an adverb:
( ) “[…] very keen on their expertise […]”
( ) “[…] and that occupy a lot of space on the sidewalk […]”
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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