Portuguese activity: Verbs in the past tense

Portuguese activity, recommended for students in the ninth year of elementary school, explores verbs in the past perfect. Let's analyze this verb tense in the text A home for treasure collectors? To do this, answer the proposed questions!

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SCHOOL: DATE:

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Read:

A home for treasure collectors

In the 17th century, some collectors had their cabinets of curiosities. Considered great-grandparents of our modern museums, these spaces contained everything that the collector collected throughout his life, showing a little of the enormous diversity of the world. It could have everything: fossils, insects, old books, stuffed animals, paintings and much more. Today, we like to show our collections to everyone, but in the past these cabinets were only open to friends of collectors, scientists and researchers. So, imagine: that incredible collection of butterflies was there, tucked away, without any visits from school classes to brighten the day. Until some people realized that the collections deserved a special place, and so they gained space in the world's first museums – such as the British Museum and the Natural History Museum in London.

Magazine “Science Today for Children”. Edition 211.
Available in:. (Fragment).

Questions

Question 1 - In “In the 17th century, some collectors had their cabinets of curiosities.”, the past tense verb refers to:

( ) to the 1st person plural.

( ) to the 2nd person plural.

( ) to the 3rd person plural.

Question 2 – In the part “[…] what the collector collected throughout his life […]”, the verb is in the imperfect tense to indicate an action:

( ) continuous in the past.

( ) closed in the past.

( ) sporadic in the past.

Question 3 – In the passage “[…] that incredible collection of butterflies was there […]”, the adverb adds to the verb in the imperfect tense a circumstance of:

Question 4 – In the excerpt below, there is a verb in the past tense. Underline it:

“Until some people realized that the collections deserved a special place […]”

Question 5 – Were the verbs in the imperfect past that make up the text used in the indicative or subjunctive mood? Explain:

By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Letters and specialist in distance education.