Portuguese activity, aimed at first-year high school students, about the direct transitive verbs. When are verbs classified this way? When they need add-on! But here is the question: complement with or without preposition? Let's learn? To do so, answer the various questions proposed that explore the direct transitive verbs in the text Chuí commands the traffic, written by Aníbal Machado!
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One Sunday, at the gray hour when the holidays end and everyone returns home half disappointed, cars roared with impatience at the red light. Some lighthoused from afar, asking for passage. But red didn't give way to green. And with the strength of its symbol, it paralyzed traffic.
The terrible kids in the square noticed the confusion. Chuí, the main one, decides to intervene and goes to the middle of the asphalt. Start waving to drivers.
Let them pass! Free was traffic to the right.
– Come on! I'm not kidding! It is true…
Some hesitated at first. Then they broke and others followed.
Chuí, imposing, extends his arms to the main street. Drivers finally believe him. And the immense mass of vehicles parades under the sole command of the little ragamuffin.
In energetic movement, Chuí orders the cars to stop. He turns his body, stretches his arm and tells the main street to follow to the left. In what is obeyed.
Passengers and drivers toss coins. But the improvised guard, aware of his responsibilities, knows that he cannot bend down to pick them up without risking traffic.
Night had descended quickly and the lamps were not lit.
Redder in the dark, the red light. Having lost the function of prohibiting, the drivers only trusted Chuí's infallible arm.
When, screaming from a distance, the boy's mother threatened him with a beating, a real guard appears in uniform. He arrests Chuí and takes him crying to the district.
– We got the coins for you, shout your companions.
It wasn't the coins he wanted, oh! Was not it! What Chuí wanted was to get back into traffic, to keep submitting those huge, powerful cars to his single command, to the wave of his little arm.
Aníbal Machado. “The death of the standard bearer and other stories”. Rio de Janeiro: José Olympio, 1965.
Question 1 - Note the verb that composes the beginning of the text:
“On a Sunday, at the gray hour when the holidays end […]”
It can be said that the aforementioned verb is direct transitive because:
( ) has complete meaning.
( ) requires complement with preposition.
( ) requires complement without preposition.
Question 2 - The underlined verb is transitive directly in the passage:
( ) "Some lighthouse from afar, asking for passage."
( ) “The terrible kids in the square realized the confusion."
( ) "Free was the traffic to the right."
Question 3 - In “Spin your body, stretch your arm and tell […]”, the direct transitive verbs:
( ) indicate Chuí's actions.
( ) indicate states of Chuí.
( ) indicate qualities of Chuí.
Question 4 – Identify the passage where "os" is a complement to a direct transitive verb:
( ) "Then they broke up and others followed them."
( ) “Chuí, imposing, stretches out his arms to the main street.”
( ) “[…] his companions shout at him.
Question 5 - In the segment “[…] you know you can't bend down to catch them […]”, the term “las”, complement of the direct transitive verb “to catch”, is called:
( ) bet
( ) direct object
( ) predicative of the subject
Question 6 – In the sentence “[…] threatened him with a beating […]”, the complement of the direct transitive verb “threatened” resumes:
( ) "the boy's mother"
( ) "the boy"
( ) “a real guard”
Question 7 – In the period “Hold Chuí and take him crying to the district.”, the subject of the direct transitive verb “Hold” is:
( ) hidden
( ) simple
( ) undetermined
Per Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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