Portuguese activity, focused on students in the eighth year of elementary school, on accentuation. Let's analyze the accented words in the text Did you know that crab claws are different sizes? To do this, answer the proposed questions!
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In fact, not all crabs are like that. Those with different sized claws are called heterochelas. Crabs that have similar claws are called homochelas.
Depending on the species with heterochelia, the right or left claw may be larger. The difference in size happens because of a genetic inheritance, that is, the size of the claws is a characteristic passed from father to son.
Notice that we're talking about a trait passed from father to son, and that's right: a different size claw is something that only occurs in males. The females of any crab species ________ always have the same size claws, which are small and used exclusively for food […]
Magazine “Science Today for Children”. Edition 223.
Available in:. (Fragment).
Question 1 - Underline the accented oxytone word below:
“Did you know that crab claws are different sizes?”
Question 2 – Why is the underlined oxytone above accentuated?
Question 3 – The paroxytone word “species” is accented because:
( ) ends in “e”.
( ) ends in a vowel.
( ) ends in a diphthong.
Question 4 – The words “genetics” and “characteristic” are accented for the same reason. Please state this reason:
Question 5 – According to grammar, stressed monosyllables ending in “a”, followed or not by “s”, must be accented. Locate in the text the word that follows this rule:
Question 6 - Complete the space with “have” or “have”:
“The females of any species of ________ crab always have the same size claws […]”
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Letters and specialist in distance education.
