Portuguese activity, aimed at first-year high school students, explores the prepositions. Are we going to analyze the prepositions in the text about the book “The Glass Universe”, by Dava Sobel? To do this, answer the various questions proposed!
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Still not translated into Portuguese, the book tells how, in the mid-nineteenth century, the Harvard College Observatory began to employ women as calculators, or “human computers,” to interpret observations made by men through telescopes.
As photography transformed the practice of astronomy, women turned to studying images of the stars captured on photographic glass plates. Since then, they have made extraordinary discoveries, which have attracted worldwide acclaim.
Women helped to understand what stars are made of. They classified stars into meaningful categories for future research and found a way to measure distances through space by starlight.
Elegantly written and enriched by excerpts from letters, diaries and memoirs, The Glass Universe is the hidden story of a group of remarkable women who have made vital contributions to the emerging field of astronomy.
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Question 1 - The highlighted term is a preposition in the fragment:
( ) "Yet without Portuguese translation […]"
( ) "[…] the women if returned to study images […]"
( ) “[…] they made extraordinary discoveries, what attracted worldwide acclaim.”
Question 2 - In the title of the text, the preposition "of" indicates:
( ) place.
( ) possession.
( ) origin.
Question 3 - In the passage “[…] the book tells how, in the mid-nineteenth century, the Harvard College Observatory […]", the preposition "in" comprises:
( ) a bet.
( ) an adverbial adjunct.
( ) a predicative of the subject.
Question 4 – The "a" is a preposition in the excerpt:
( ) “[…] started to employ women […]”
( ) “[…] transformed the practice of astronomy […]”
( ) “[…] the hidden story of a group of women […]”
Question 5 - In the segment “[…] to interpret the observations made by men […]”, the preposition “to” expresses:
( ) a cause.
( ) a purpose.
( ) a conclusion.
Question 6 – In prayer “Like photography has transformed the practice of astronomy […]”, the word “How” is:
( ) an adverb.
( ) a conjunction.
( ) a preposition.
Question 7 – Underline the following prepositions:
"Elegantly written and enriched by excerpts from letters, diaries and memoirs, The Glass Universe […]”
Underlined prepositions form a part of the text in which the author:
( ) evaluates the book The Glass Universe.
( ) describes the book The Glass Universe.
( ) quotes an excerpt from the book The Glass Universe.
Question 8 – In the sentence “[…] a way to measure distances through space for the starlight.", the word underlined is the contraction of a preposition with:
( ) an adverb.
( ) a pronoun.
( ) a definite article.
Question 9 – The prepositions, analyzed throughout the questions, are present in:
( ) a notice.
( ) a review.
( ) an opinion article.
Per Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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