Portuguese activity, focused on eighth grade students, addresses intransitive verb and transitive verb. Let's analyze these verbs in the text How can flies get away so fast? To do this, answer the proposed questions!
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
Read:
Their entire body is covered in hair that works like mini-radars. They are especially sensitive to air movements. The movement of the hand or any other solid object creates air fluctuation, which sensitizes the hairs, allowing the fly to fly before receiving the killing blow.
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Question 1 - Read back:
“Their bodies are all covered in hair that works like mini-radars.”
Locate, in this passage, the indirect transitive verb, that is, one that requires a complement with a preposition:
Question 2 – The previously located indirect transitive verb refers to:
( ) to the 1st person plural.
( ) to the 2nd person plural.
( ) to the 3rd person plural.
Question 3 – Watch:
“The movement of the hand or any other solid object creates the fluctuation of air, which sensitizes the hair […]”.
Regarding this segment of the text, it can be said that:
( ) the verb “creates” is direct transitive.
( ) the verb “sensitiza” is direct transitive.
( ) the verb “creates” and the verb “sensitiza” are direct transitives.
Question 4 – In the fragment below, there is an intransitive verb. Highlight it:
“[…] allowing the fly to fly before receiving the killing blow.”
Question 5 – The intransitive verb underlined above was used in the mood:
( ) indicative.
( ) subjunctive.
( ) imperative.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Letters and specialist in distance education.
