Portuguese activity, focused on students in the eighth year of elementary school, addresses the direct transitive verbs. When are verbs classified this way? When they need a complement without a preposition! Let's analyze this type of verb in the text about the book “Your dog is a genius!”? So, answer the proposed questions!
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
Read:
Anthropologist Brian Hare and his wife, journalist Wanessa Woods, unravel the genius of man's best friend through an accurate reconstruction of human and canine evolutionary history. Based on more than 660 scientific studies, the book explains in an accessible way how the peculiar canine intelligence that, according to the authors, has many similarities with that of babies humans. The last chapter of the work also brings suggestions for games and experiments that dog owners can do at home to identify the level of intelligence of their pet.
“Science Today Magazine”. March 2014, p.57.
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Question 1 - Highlight the verb in this text fragment:
“Anthropologist Brian Hare and his wife, journalist Wanessa Woods, unravel the genius of man's best friend through an accurate reconstruction of evolutionary history […]”
Question 2 - In the above fragment, the verb is direct transitive because:
( ) does not require a supplement.
( ) requires complement without preposition.
( ) requires complement with preposition.
Question 3 - In the passage “[…] how the peculiar canine intelligence is manifested […]”, the direct transitive verb is in the voice:
( ) active.
( ) passive.
( ) reflective.
Question 4 – In the segment “The last chapter of the work also brings suggestions for games […]”, the subject of the direct transitive verb has as its nucleus:
( ) "last".
( ) “chapter”.
( ) "constructions".
Question 5 - In “[…] identify the degree of intelligence […]”, the direct transitive verb is:
( ) in the infinitive.
( ) in the gerund.
( ) in the participle.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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