Portuguese activity, aimed at students in the eighth year of elementary school, proposes the study of connecting verb. Can you identify him? Do you know the role he plays in the communicative context? Let's learn? The questions presented are referred to as a fragment of The egg, written by Mario Quintana.
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Anyone who looks at an egg, which looks like a face with no eyes, no good, no nose, wants to paint it all that he lacks. But whoever sees faces does not see hearts! And actually there's nothing more unhappy than an egg when the poor thing, on top of that, ___________ cuttlefish... Lives in a constant fear that you'll be knocked down... Worse yet: that they'll put you in an omelet... and goodbye, beautiful chick of yours bowels!
A certain sage already stated that the egg is what matters most, the chicken not being a mere pretext of Nature to produce another egg. The sage, who apparently had nothing to do with chicken, was also not at all human. I may have a tendency to humanize things. But I imagine the excited cackling of a young chicken as it lays the first egg: “At last! I'm already a woman!"
QUINTANA, Mario. “Of laziness as a method of work”. Rio de Janeiro: Globo, 1987. (Fragment).
Question 1 - Carefully review the first sentence of the text. Then mark the sentence that contains a connecting verb:
( ) “Who looks at an egg […]”
( ) “[…] that looks like a face without eyes […]”
( ) “[…] all that you lack.”
Question 2 - Check the linking verb that fits in the space indicated in the text, in order to express a transitory state of the egg:
( ) "it is"
( ) “é”
( ) "stay"
Question 3 - In "live in a constant fear that they will bring him down…”, the connecting verb underlined indicates:
( ) a temporary state of the egg.
( ) a continuous state of the egg
( ) an apparent state of the egg.
Question 4 – In the excerpt “At last! I'm already a woman!”, the connecting verb “I am” introduces:
( ) the predicative of the object that composes the sentence.
( ) the subject who composes the prayer.
( ) the predicative of the subject that composes the sentence.
Question 5 - Identify the linking verb present in the first sentence of the second paragraph:
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By Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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