Portuguese activity, proposed to students in the ninth year of elementary school, guides the study of the subject's predicament, through various questions. Ninth grade students are asked to identify the subject's predicatives, as well as the role they play in the context of Nossa Vida, written by Paula Saldanha.
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
Read:
Our life
At home, the situation was difficult. The father had become unemployed. The mother thought that any job could at least pay for the food. We lived in Mambaí, State of Goiás. Then a job appeared on a farm near the Gerais of Bahia, very close to the border. I went to work together with my brothers on this farm. It was the project of a large bank, supported by the government.
The farm said it paid the salary, but there was never any salary. At the end of the month, everything that was eaten or used was discounted. There was nothing left of money. And we were forced to work from sunrise to sunset.
– Slave labor – said the pedestrians from Mambaí who had already been through this.
– But using a child is a sham! - Said the owner of the bar one day.
They also said that these farms use children as workers because it's cheaper. Four or five cost the same as an adult, they eat less, they obey better, and each one does a grown-up job.
The farm foreman said that the money could be left over if we worked properly. I've heard of people who left there with debt, but not money.
If only we were eating well… My mother didn't know the food on the farm was bad. I thought it was a child's freshness. But it wasn't, no. In the morning, watery coffee with crusty bread. For lunch, just stuff pure noodles or rice with flour.
For work on the farm to pay off, the foreman made us work hard. I am fourteen years old. I'm strong. But my brothers and a bunch of other weak-bodied kids did adult heavy lifting – mowing and weeding was hard to chip, but we still took it. The worst was carrying heavy wheelbarrows full of material for the crops.
Nobody has any idea of the hard life we were leading on this farm in the Gerais of Bahia.
Paula Saldanha. “Heroes of the Generals”. São Paulo, FTD, 1998, p. 7-9.
Question 1 - The narrator exposes the opinion about the work on the farm, through the use of a predicative of the subject in:
a) "The farm said it paid the salary, but there was never any salary."
b) "For the work on the farm to pay, the foreman made us work hard."
c) “[…] mowing and weeding was hard to chip […]”
d) "Nobody has any idea of the hard life we led on this farm in the Gerais of Bahia."
Question 2 - Check the sentence in which the highlighted adjective syntactically performs the function of the subject's predicative:
a) "It was the project of a great bank, supported by the government.”
b) “My mother did not know that the food on the farm was bad.”
c) “At lunch, just stuff the noodles pure or rice with flour."
d) “The worst was carrying wheelbarrows heavy, full of material for farming."
Question 3 - In the passage "I am strong", the predicative "strong" indicates:
a) an attribute of the narrator-character.
b) a state of the narrator-character.
c) an action of the narrator-character.
d) a way of being of the narrator-character.
Question 4 – Identify:
“At home, the situation was difficult”.
a) the subject of the prayer: _______________________
b) the verb: ____________________
c) the subject's predicament: ____________________
Question 5 - In all sentences, "degrading" works as a predicative of the subject, except in:
a) What a degrading situation that was!
b) He suffered a lot from that degrading situation.
c) The work on the farm became more and more degrading.
d) The situation of employees remained degrading.
Question 6 – The verb, which unites the subject to the predicative, is called:
a) connecting verb
b) intransitive verb
c) direct transitive verb
d) indirect transitive verb
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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