Portuguese Activity: Conjunctions

Portuguese activity, focused on ninth grade students, explores conjunctions. Let's analyze them in the text A Mysterious Whale Called Sardinheira? To do so, answer the proposed questions!

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A Mysterious Whale Called Sardinheira

Counting, no one believes, but she rises to the surface to breathe calmly and gently, despite being a giant of almost 15 meters in length. Unlike most large cetaceans, the sardine whale is really discreet, it doesn't even expose its tail when diving. You do this because you don't need to pick up momentum to get back underwater. And it doesn't need a boost because it's slenderer than its whale cousins, such as humpbacks and frankfurters.

If to emerge and sink, it is calm, when spraying it attracts a lot of attention. Its spray can reach four meters high! Yes it's true! However, as this species can expire in water, its water jet is not always visible. […]

“Ciência Hoje das Crianças” magazine. Edition 210.
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Questions

Question 1 – Highlight the conjunction in this segment of the text:

"Telling no one believes, but she rises to the surface to breathe calmly [...]"

Question 2 – The conjunction underlined in the previous question starts a sentence called:

( ) absolute.

( ) coordinate.

( ) subordinate.

Question 3 – The conjunction, used in the segment “You can do this because you don't need to get a boost to get back underwater.”, could be replaced by:

( ) "because".

( ) "However".

( ) "but also".

Question 4 – In “If to emerge and sink, it is calm, when spraying it attracts a lot of attention.”, there is a coordinating conjunction and a subordinate conjunction. Identify them:

Question 5 - In the passage “However, as this species can expire in the water, its water jet is not always visible.”, the conjunction “how” expresses:

( ) cause.

( ) comparison.

( ) conformity.

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

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