Portuguese Activity: Adverbs of Intensity

Portuguese activity, aimed at students in the eighth year of elementary school, about intensity adverbs. How about analyzing this type of adverb in the text Why do cats sleep so much? To do this, answer the proposed questions!

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Why do cats sleep so much?

All feline species are quite sleepy. To give you an idea, lions can sleep up to 20 hours on the same day. With domestic cats, this is no different. Of course, it depends a lot on the breed, whether it is male or female, the temperature of the environment and, mainly, the age (the older and younger people tend to sleep more).

Another curious behavior of cats is that they have nocturnal habits, that is, they stay awake at night and sleep during the day. This gives even more the impression that they are very sleepy, as we have the inverse habit, we are daytime animals. Wild cats are also nocturnal, with rare exceptions such as the cheetah.

It is noteworthy that cats do not have continuous sleep. They sleep with short breaks, waking up many times during the day. […]

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Questions

Question 1 - Highlight the following intensity adverb:

"Why do cats sleep so much?"

Question 2 - The adverb of intensity highlighted above could be replaced by:

( ) "most".

( ) "too much".

( ) "deep".

Question 3 - In “Of course it depends a lot on the race […]”, the adverb intensifies the meaning of:

( ) a verb.

( ) an adjective.

( ) an adverb.

Question 4 - In the passage “[…] age (older and younger people tend to sleep more)”, the term “more”, used three times, plays the role of:

( ) preposition.

( ) indefinite pronoun.

( ) adverb of intensity.

Question 5 - In the segment “[…] the impression that they are very sleepy, because we have the inverse habit […]”, there is an adverb of intensity. Identify it:

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

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