Portuguese activity, focused on students in the eighth year of elementary school, on verbs in the gerund. Let's analyze the verbs in this nominal form in the text Hopes (or Leaf Bugs)? To do so, answer the proposed questions!
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They are often confused with crickets and locusts, but the cockatiels are usually larger than their relatives, measuring on average eight centimeters. Some species may feed exclusively on plants (herbivores) or other insects (predators). The antennae of the hopes are even longer than those of the crickets. Their eardrums are located on the forelegs and the female ovipositor is long like that of crickets, but flattened laterally.
Most hopes are green. They have wings that look like leaves. Thus, they manage to stay hidden in a plant avoiding the attack of a predator. This camouflage strategy is known as mimicry. The sound of the hopes is just like the crickets and produced in the same way: rubbing one wing on the other.
Magazine “Science Today for Children”. Edition 176.
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Question 1 - Underline the verb in the gerund below:
“Often, they are confused with crickets and grasshoppers, but the hopes are usually larger than their relatives, measuring an average of eight centimeters.”
Question 2 – The following excerpt was transcribed without the comma before the gerund. Put it:
“That way, they manage to stay hidden in a plant avoiding the attack of a predator.”
Question 3 – In the excerpt above, the verb in the gerund needed a complement without a preposition. Therefore, it is classified as:
( ) intransitive.
( ) direct transitive.
( ) transitive indirect.
Question 4 – In “The sound of hope is just like the sound of crickets and produced in the same way: rubbing one wing on the other.”, there is a verb in the gerund. Identify it:
Question 5 - Cite a verb in the gerund that could take the place of the one identified in the previous question:
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Letters and specialist in distance education.
