Portuguese activity, aimed at eighth grade students, about connecting verb. It can indicate a characteristic, a state or a way of being! How about studying it through the text Are pig and wild boar related? So, answer the questions proposed below!
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Yes, the wild boar is an ancestor of the pig. In antiquity, men domesticated some wild boar. Over time, these animals adapted, underwent changes in size, became more docile and became the pigs that today live on farms. But the two animals are of different species.
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Question 1 - One of the following passages contains a connecting verb. Identify it:
( ) "Are pig and wild boar related?"
( ) "In antiquity, men domesticated some wild boar."
( ) “[…] have undergone size changes […]”
Question 2 - The connecting verb, identified above, expresses:
( ) a state of the subject.
( ) an action of the subject.
( ) a characteristic of the subject.
Question 3 - Watch:
“Yes, the wild boar is an ancestor of the pig.”
The highlighted part, introduced by the connecting verb "is", is called:
( ) bet
( ) verbal complement
( ) predicative of the subject
Question 4 – In the segment “[…] became more docile […]”, the connecting verb “became” has as subject:
( ) "These animals"
( ) “the pigs”
( ) "the two animals"
Question 5 - In the sentence “[…] live on farms.”, the underlined verb is:
( ) intransitive
( ) binding
( ) indirect transitive
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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