Portuguese activity, aimed at students in the seventh year of elementary school, explores accentuation. Let's analyze the accented words in the text Brazil of birds? So, answer the proposed questions!
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Brazil is a very large country and, depending on the region, birds can receive different popular names. The flock-dove, for example, is also called avoante, amargozinha, parari… There are more than twenty different names for a single species!
The pigeon is also known as the white wing – the one that inspired Luiz Gonzaga's famous music.
It is to avoid confusion that all species, whether bird or any other living being, receive from researchers a scientific name with which they become known anywhere in the world.
“Ciência Hoje das Crianças” magazine. Edition 266.
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Question 1 – In the excerpt below, a word was transcribed without the accent. Put it on:
“Brazil is a very large country and, depending on the region, birds can receive different popular names.”
Question 2 – The word "species" is accented because:
( ) is proparoxytone.
( ) is an oxytone ending in “e”.
( ) is a paroxytone ending in a diphthong.
Question 3 – Highlight the accented oxytone word below:
“The pigeon is also known as the white wing – the one that inspired Luiz Gonzaga's famous music.”
Question 4 – Inform the rule that governs the accentuation of the oxytone highlighted in the previous question:
Question 5 - In the last paragraph of the text, there is a word proparoxytone. Identify it:
Question 6 – The word proparoxytone identified above is:
( ) a verb.
( ) an adjective.
( ) a noun.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.