Portuguese Activity: Pronouns

Portuguese activity, aimed at first year high school students, about the pronouns. How about studying them in the book review Neanderthal, Our Brother: A Brief History of Man? So, answer the challenging questions posed!

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Neanderthal, Our Brother: A Brief History of Man

Romeo and Juliet in a prehistoric version… That's how, in 2013, the press welcomed the great discovery of researcher Silvana Condemi: the identification of the first bone belonging to a mestizo of father sapiens and mother Neanderthal. Genetics had announced, and paleoanthropology confirmed:

Homo neanderthalensis and homo sapiens they mixed their cultures, but also their genes, in the same European territory – and that for more than 5,000 years.

But then who is Neanderthal man? A monkey or a fair-skinned redhead? A butcher or a genius hunter who mastered the language and revered his dead? Is it possible he's still with us?

Radically transformed by the eruption of new methods, our prehistory rewrites itself very quickly, bringing huge surprises. In this passionate investigation, the authors trace the most current portrait of our strange ancestor, reviewing the various hypotheses about his supposed disappearance. With that, they reopen the question of our evolutionary “success”, considering the terrible mark that we leave on everything that surrounds us.

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Questions 

Question 1 - In the title of the review, the pronoun “our” expresses the idea of:

the origin

b) intensity

c) time

d) possession

Question 2 - In the passage “Is it possible that he is still among us?”, the personal pronoun “he” has as reference:

to the "homo sapiens”

b) “the Neanderthal man”

c) "A butcher"

d) “a genius hunter”

Question 3 - In all alternatives, the "what" works as a relative pronoun, except in:

a) “That was how, in 2013, the press welcomed the great discovery […]”

b) “[…] a genius hunter who mastered the language […]”

c) “[…] in view of the terrible mark we left […]”

d) “[…] about everything around us.”

question 4 – Note that the second paragraph of the review presents different questions about the Neanderthal man. Identify the interrogative pronoun used in that part:

A.

Question 5 - Note the pronoun “we” in sentences. Then read the statements about it:

"Is it possible he's still with us?"

“[…] in view of the terrible mark we left […]”

I. In both situations, the pronoun “we” is personal.

II. In the first sentence, “we” works as a complement; in the second sentence, it works as a subject.

III. In both cases, the pronoun “we” plays the role of subject.

What is stated in:

there

b) I and II

c) I and III

d) II and III

Question 6 – In the excerpt “[…] reviewing the miscellaneous hypotheses about its supposed disappearance.", the underlined pronoun:

a) explains the noun “hypotheses”.

b) complements the noun “hypotheses”.

c) indefines the noun “hypotheses”.

d) characterizes the noun “hypotheses”.

Question 7 – At the end of the review, the demonstrative pronoun "that" takes the place of:

a) another pronoun

b) an adverb

c) an adjective

d) a noun

By Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages ​​and specialist in distance education.

At answers are in the link above the header.