Portuguese activity, aimed at 9th grade students, proposes the study of semicolon, through text that exalts natural beauty.
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It is inevitable not to abuse the superlative when describing natural beauty. The places that focus on this work, when they cannot be qualified as the most beautiful and spectacular, are the most harmonious; animals, if not the fastest, are the rarest; and peoples and cultures are generally among the most primitive or the most interesting. It is, therefore, very easy to fall prey to undisguised pride when talking about one of our “heavens”.
Encyclopedia World Heritage. São Paulo: Nova Cultural, 1987.
Question 1 - Explain the use of the semicolon in the text:
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Question 2 - In the excerpt “Yeah, therefore, it is very easy to be the victim of undisguised pride when talking about one of our “paradises.”, the highlighted conjunction introduces one:
a) cause
b) conclusion
c) opposition
d) explanation
Question 3 - In “It's inevitable do not abuse the superlative when describing natural beauty.”, the prefix of the underlined word indicates the idea of:
a) removal
b) approximation
c) replacement
d) denial
Remove another word from the text that indicates the same idea:
Question 4 – In the segment “It is, therefore, very easy being a victim of undisguised pride when talking about one of our “paradises”, the underlined part could be replaced by the adjective:
A:
By Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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