Portuguese activity, focused on students in the eighth year of elementary school, about gerund verbs. Let's analyze this nominal form in the text that presents us with the book the minpins? So, answer the proposed questions!
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
Read:
By evading his mother's vigilance and overcoming his fear, one day Billy entered the fearsome Forest of Sin. There, he got to know the Minpins, a tiny folk who lived in the hollows of trees. The Minpins' only enemy was the terrible Crusher. Flying on the back of a swan, Billy managed to rid them of the devastating monster. And he won friends who made his childhood the happiest in the world.
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Question 1 - Highlight the verbs in the gerund in this passage of the text:
"By evading his mother's vigilance and overcoming his fear, one day Billy entered the fearsome Forest of Sin."
Question 2 - The above highlighted verbs required complement without preposition. Therefore, they are:
( ) intransitives.
( ) direct transitives.
( ) indirect transitives.
Question 3 - In the excerpt “There, he got to know the Minpins […]”, the adverb adds to the phrase with gerund a circumstance of:
( ) place.
( ) mode.
( ) time.
Question 4 – Note this segment of the text:
"Flying on the back of a swan, Billy managed to rid them of the devastating monster."
The verb in the gerund comprises:
( ) a section that was moved.
( ) a part with an explanatory purpose.
( ) an enumeration of elements.
Question 5 - In the previous segment, the verb in the gerund expresses:
( ) an action.
( ) a state.
( ) a feature.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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