Portuguese Activity: Verb to be

Portuguese activity, suitable for students in the eighth year of elementary school, explores the verb to be". The questions are based on the text Who Invented Nail Polish? You would know, for example, how to complete the sentence “an adaptation of a varnish used to protect car paint. ” with the imperfect past tense (indicative mode) of the verb “to be”? Let's go to the challenge?

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Who Invented Nail Polish?

Today's enamels were created by chemist Charles Lachman, in partnership with brothers Charles and Joseph Revson, in 1927, in the United States. ________ an adaptation of a varnish used to protect car paint. In 1932, the trio founded Revlon, the world's first nail polish factory (the name is the combination of Revson plus Lachman's “L”). But the custom of painting nails is ancient: around 5,000 years ago, women in Egypt were already coloring their fingertips with dyes made from plants.

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Questions

Question 1 - Identify, by means of a stroke, the verb “to be” that composes the initial period of the text about the origin of nail polish:

“Today's enamels were created by chemist Charles Lachman, in partnership with brothers Charles and Joseph Revson, in 1927, in the United States.”

Question 2 - The verb, identified above, expresses a fact:

( ) predictable

( ) unfinished

( ) concluded

Question 3 - The space indicated in the text must be filled with the imperfect past tense (indicative mode) of the verb “to be”. So which sentence is correct?

( ) “They would be an adaptation of a used varnish […]”

( ) “They were an adaptation of a used varnish […]”

( ) “They are an adaptation of a used varnish […]”

Question 4 – In the passage “[…] the name is the junction of Revson plus the “L” of Lachman […]”, the verb “to be” was used:

( ) in indicative mode, as it expresses a certainty.

( ) in the subjunctive mode, as it expresses a hypothesis.

( ) in imperative mode, as it expresses an order.

Question 5 - "But the custom of painting your nails é old one […]". Classify the verb "to be" highlighted in this sentence in the text:

( ) binding

( ) intransitive

( ) direct transitive

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

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