Portuguese activity, aimed at first-year high school students, explores the nominal forms. Infinitive, gerund and participle! Are we going to analyze them? To do this, answer the various questions based on the text about the book we are all extraordinary, an edition dedicated to the children of the novel Extraordinary, what moved millions of people when telling the story of a ten-year-old boy with a severe facial deformity who starts attending school for the first time!
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The inspirational message of the novel
Extraordinary now addressed to a children's audience, in a simply charming illustrated book. Extraordinary is a passionate and inspiring novel that has touched the lives of nearly half a million readers in Brazil alone. First published in 2013, the story that follows the charismatic Auggie Pullman, a ten-year-old boy with a severe facial deformity who starts attending school for the first time. time, it now gets an edition dedicated to children, carefully thought out and prepared with the intention of taking to them the strong message of inclusion and kindness that the author R J Palácio imprinted on her constructions. Recovering elements from the original story and inserting the characters in an illustrated world that represents the boy's imagination, “We are all extraordinary" will delight all those who have already been touched and those who will still be touched by this incredible story of overcoming, friendship and, above all, all loveAvailable in: .
Question 1 - Identify the sentence in which the underlined verb is in a nominal form:
( ) “The inspirational message of the novel Extraordinary now directed to the children's audience [...]”
( ) “[…] that already rang the lives of nearly half a million readers in Brazil alone.”
( ) “[…] an illustrated world that represents the boy's imagination […]"
Question 2 - Point out the type of subject in the nominal form identified above:
( ) hidden
( ) simple
( ) compound
Question 3 - The verb in the participle "Published" has as its referent:
( ) “The inspirational message of the novel Extraordinary”
( ) "the story"
( ) “an edition dedicated to children”
Question 4 – In the sentence “[…] starts attending school for the first time […]”, the “a” that precedes the infinitive verb “to attend” is:
( ) a preposition
( ) a definite article
( ) a personal pronoun
Question 5 - In the "[…] carefully thought and elaborated [...]”, the highlighted term modifies the meaning of the verbs in the participle, indicating:
( ) place
( ) mode
( ) time
Question 6 – Look carefully at the following fragment. Afterwards, underline the verbs in the gerund that compose it:
“Rescuing elements from the original story and inserting the characters […]”
Question 7 – In the fragment above, the verbs in the gerund express:
( ) actions
( ) States
( ) features
Question 8 – In the passage “[…] the intention to bring to them the strong message of inclusion and kindness […]”, the infinitive verb required two types of complements. Therefore, he is:
( ) intransitive
( ) direct transitive
( ) direct and indirect transitive
Question 9 – In “We are all extraordinary’ it will delight all who have been moved […]”, the infinitive verb “delight”:
( ) is impersonal.
( ) forms a verbal phrase.
( ) has the same subject as the main clause verb.
Question 10 - In the excerpt “[…] those who will still be moved by this incredible […]”, the phrase with the verb in the infinitive was used:
( ) in active voice
( ) in passive voice
( ) in reflective voice
Per Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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