Portuguese activity, aimed at first-year high school students, explores the verbal agreement. The proposed questions are based on a text on the origin of antibiotics. In the sentence, for example, “[…] most bacteria died when they came into contact with them.”, is the agreement of the verb “died” with the expression “most” mandatory, incorrect or optional? Did you paint that doubt? So be sure to do the following activity!
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
Read:
When antibiotics began to be used in the first half of the 20th century, most bacteria died when they came into contact with them. There were always, however, a few bacteria in the population resistant to one or another antibiotic. The increased use of antibiotics and, mainly, their indiscriminate use contributed to eliminate sensitive bacteria from the population, leaving a clear path for resistant bacteria proliferate.
AMABIS and MARTHO. “Biology 3”. São Paulo: Modern, 1995.
Question 1 - Identify the passage in which the underlined verb was incorrectly transcribed, with regard to agreement:
( ) “When antibiotics started to be used […]"
( ) "Ever there were, however, a few resistant bacteria from the population […]"
( ) “[…] leaving a free path for resistant bacteria proliferate.”
Question 2 - It can be said that the verb identified above:
( ) must be used in the singular, as it is impersonal.
( ) must be used in the singular, as the referent subject is simple.
( ) must be used in the singular, as the referent subject was not determined.
Question 3 - In the sentence “[…] most bacteria died when coming into contact with them.”, the agreement of the verb “died” with the expression “most” is:
( ) mandatory
( ) incorrect
( ) optional
Question 4 – In the last sentence of the text, the verb “contributed” was inflected in the plural because it agrees with:
( ) “The increase in the use of antibiotics”.
( ) “The increase in the use of antibiotics and, mainly, their indiscriminate use”.
( ) “the sensitive bacteria of the population”.
Question 5 - Look carefully at the sentences. Next, mark the one in which the agreement of the verb "do" was correctly done:
( ) Scientific tests were carried out.
( ) Antibiotics have been around for many years!
( ) The text presents the factors that caused resistant bacteria to proliferate.
Per Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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