Portuguese activity, aimed at first year high school students, about adjuncts. How about analyzing them in the text Why Pasta Foams When Cooking? For this, answer the proposed questions!
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Wheat semolina is made up of carbohydrates (starch) and protein. In the cereal milling process for semolina extraction, some starch chains are broken. When the dough is placed in boiling water, these broken chains expand, absorbing tiny air bubbles along with the water. And these bubbles go to the surface of the boiling water in the form of foam.
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Question 1 - Highlight the word that plays the role of adjunct adjunct below:
"Why does pasta foam when it's cooking?"
Question 2 – The word highlighted above performs the function of adjunct adjunct because:
( ) explains a noun.
( ) determines a noun.
( ) complements a noun.
Question 3 – In the passage “[…] these broken chains expand […]”, the adjoint adjunct was expressed by a pronoun:
( ) Undefined.
( ) possessive.
( ) demonstrative.
Question 4 – The phrase, highlighted in the excerpt “[…] absorbing tiny bubbles of air along with the water.”, works as an adjunct because it is:
( ) adjective.
( ) adverbial.
( ) prepositional.
Question 5 - Identify the segment where the underlined term is an adnominal adjunct:
( ) “The semolina of wheat is constituted in carbohydrates (starch) and protein.”
( ) "In the cereal milling process for semolina extraction […]"
( ) "And these bubbles go to The surface of boiling water in the form of foam.”
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
