Portuguese activity, aimed at ninth graders, explores prepositions. How about analyzing them in the text The oldest? For this, answer the proposed questions!
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O Neokotus sanfranciscanus it is the oldest fossil of a lizard in South America, which shows that current biodiversity emerged longer ago than previously thought. Another interesting thing is that the little one belonged to a family of lizards that was practically extinct. Also, it was not known that they had existed _______ these bands.
According to Jonathas Bittencourt, a professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais and coordinator of the research, with the discovery, it will be possible to study how groups of lizards emerged in Brazil. “We can reconstruct the history of the evolution of these animals, by looking at records they left a long, long time ago,” he says.
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Question 1 – In the period “Another interesting thing is that the little one belonged to a family of lizards practically extinct.”, there are two prepositions. Check them out:
( ) “Other” and “o”.
( ) "That is a".
( ) “to” and “from”.
Question 2 – In “[…] it was not known that they had existed _______ these bands.”, the space must be filled with the preposition:
( ) "per".
( ) "with".
( ) "for".
Question 3 – Identify, in the first paragraph of the text, a prepositional phrase:
Question 4 – In the segment “Second Jonathas Bittencourt […]”, the term “Second” is:
( ) a numeral.
( ) a noun.
( ) a preposition.
Question 5 - Highlight the word that is the contraction of a preposition with a pronoun:
“We can reconstruct the evolutionary history of these animals by looking at records they left a long, long time ago’ […]”
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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