Portuguese activity, aimed at students in the ninth year of elementary school, about transitive verbs. Let's analyze the verbs that require complement? To do so, answer the proposed questions!
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Their ears are actually fins, like those of sharks. Probably, in the past, they were tentacles that changed with evolution and, today, they help the octopus to swim up and down. Dumbo octopuses reach 1.5 meters in size, but there is one species that is only 20 centimeters. These octopuses are very rare and live at the bottom of the ocean, from 3,000 to 5,000 meters deep.
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Question 1 - Watch:
“[…] they were tentacles that changed with evolution […]”
In this passage, the verb “modified” is:
( ) intransitive.
( ) direct transitive.
( ) transitive indirect.
Question 2 – Justify your answer to the previous question:
Question 3 – In “Dumbo octopuses reach 1.5 meters in size […]”, the direct transitive verb could be replaced by:
( ) “reach”.
( ) “complete”.
( ) “present”.
Question 4 – Identify the passage that contains a direct and indirect transitive verb:
( ) “Their ears are actually fins, like those of sharks.”
( ) “[…] and, today, they help the octopus to swim up and down.”
( ) “These octopuses are very rare and live at the bottom of the ocean […]”
Question 5 - The direct transitive verb, used in the segment “[…] a species that is only 20 centimeters long.”, refers to:
( ) to the 1st person singular.
( ) to the 2nd person singular.
( ) to the 3rd person singular.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Letters and specialist in distance education.