Portuguese activity, focused on first-year high school students, addresses personal pronouns. How about analyzing them in the text Why doesn't the duck get wet when it swims? So, answer the proposed questions! In “[…] and with the beak it removes the oil and spreads it over the body.”, which “o” works as a personal pronoun? Let's go to the challenge?
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Because it produces an oily secretion under the tail and with its beak it removes the oil and spreads it around the body. Covered by this secretion, the feathers become impermeable. Also, the layer of air between the feathers and the body helps keep the duck afloat.
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Question 1 - Identify the passage where the underlined pronoun is personal:
( ) "Why he produces an oily secretion under the tail […]”
( ) "Covered by That secretion, the feathers become impermeable.”
( ) “[…] the air layer what it's between the feathers and the body helps keep the duck afloat.”
Question 2 – In the excerpt identified above, the personal pronoun works as:
( ) subject.
( ) direct object.
( ) indirect object.
Question 3 – In “Why doesn't the duck get wet when he swims?”, the placement of the personal pronoun “if” before the verb is:
( ) prohibited.
( ) optional.
( ) mandatory.
Question 4 – Highlight the word "o" that performs the function of the following personal pronoun:
“[…] and with the beak it removes the oil and spreads it over the body.”
Question 5 - The personal pronoun previously underlined refers to:
( ) to the beak.
( ) to oil.
( ) to the body.
Question 6 – In the passage “[…] the feathers become waterproof.”, the personal pronoun indicates:
( ) the active voice of the verb.
( ) the passive voice of the verb.
( ) the reflective voice of the verb.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
