Portuguese activity, focused on students in the ninth year of elementary school, addresses Indefinite Pronouns. How about analyzing them in a text about the protein? Then answer the proposed questions!
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The need for protein in the diet of both the average individual and the athletes is not different. No one needs more than two grams of protein per pound of body weight per day. This means that if you weigh 30 kilos, you only need to eat a total of 60 grams of protein per day. Eating more than that, athlete or non-athlete will not have more energy, for a simple reason: the body eliminates excess protein, and the energy spent in this process is equivalent to what was consumed.
Research has shown that the benefit of protein for athletes is at the time of consumption. This means that everyone who does strength training – such as judokas, weight lifters, 100-meter runners, among others – benefits from ingesting a protein after training. The most effective protein in this case is called whey […]
Magazine “Science Today for Children”. Edition 250.
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Question 1 - Underline the following indefinite pronoun:
“No one needs more than two grams of protein per pound of body weight per day.”
Question 2 – The underlined indefinite pronoun above is:
( ) invariable.
( ) variable in number.
( ) variable in gender and number.
Question 3 – In the segment “This means that everyone who does strength training […]”, there is an indefinite pronoun. Tick it:
( ) "This".
( ) "all".
( ) "what".
Question 4 – In the segment above, the indefinite pronoun refers to the noun:
Question 5 – Identify the passage that contains an indefinite pronoun:
( ) “This means that if you weigh 30 kilos, you only need to ingest a total of 60 grams of protein […]”
( ) “[…] the energy spent in this process is equivalent to that consumed.”
( ) “[…] such as judokas, weight lifters, 100-meter runners, among others […]”
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Letters and specialist in distance education.
