Portuguese activity, aimed at students in the eighth year of elementary school, explores pronouns. How about analyzing them in the text Less is more? To do this, answer the proposed questions!
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
Read:
Nature provides the raw material for making everything you know: electronics parts come from minerals; everything made of plastic comes from oil; from the sand is made glass; the brick for construction comes from clay; limestone cement is removed from the ground and furniture from trees. Therefore, the more we buy, the more natural resources on the planet are removed to sustain our consumption and the more garbage we throw away! […]
Cristina Santos.
“Ciência Hoje das Crianças” magazine.
Edition 274. Available in:
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(Fragment with adaptations).
Question 1 - In the passage “Nature provides raw material for the manufacture of everything you know […]”, the term “o” performs the function of:
( ) definite article.
( ) personal pronoun.
( ) demonstrative pronoun.
Question 2 - Note this segment of the text:
“[…] everything made of plastic comes from oil […]”
Now identify:
a) the indefinite pronoun:
b) the relative pronoun:
Question 3 - In the excerpt “Therefore, the more we buy […]”, the subject of the verb is a personal pronoun that is hidden. Identify it:
Question 4 - Highlight the possessive pronoun below:
“[…] more natural resources on the planet are taken away to sustain our consumption […]”
Question 5 - The possessive pronoun highlighted above refers to:
( ) 1st person plural.
( ) 2nd person plural.
( ) 3rd person plural.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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