Portuguese activity: Gerund

Portuguese activity, focused on students in the eighth year of elementary school, on gerund. Let's analyze this nominal form of the verb in the text João Pessoa Carnival sets an example of recycling and environmental awareness? To do this, answer the proposed questions!

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Read:

João Pessoa Carnival sets an example of recycling and environmental awareness

The João Pessoa Carnival in 2013 sets an example of recycling for other cities in Brazil, encouraging environmental awareness among revelers.

For the first time, the capital of Paraíba will have a special decoration for the carnival period, bringing together 45,000 pet bottles.

The decorations are made by the Special Municipal Urban Cleaning Authority (Emlur), in partnership with the plastic artist Elioenai Gomes.

The decorations will decorate the main streets and avenues of the municipality, showing the cultural diversity of the people through icons, symbols and many colors […]

[…] The decoration will be installed between the 25th and 30th of January, in the main locations where the carnival festivities will take place.

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Questions

Question 1 - Underline the verb in the gerund below:

“João Pessoa’s Carnival in 2013 sets an example of recycling for other cities in Brazil, encouraging environmental awareness among revelers.”

Question 2 – Cite a verb in the gerund that could take the place of the one above:

Question 3 – In “[…] the capital of Paraíba will have a special decoration for the carnival period, bringing together 45 thousand pet bottles.”, there is a verb in the gerund. Identify it:

Question 4 – The verb in the gerund, identified in the previous question, required a complement without a preposition. Therefore, he is:

( ) intransitive.

( ) direct transitive.

( ) transitive indirect.

Question 5 - The excerpt below was transcribed without the comma preceding the gerund. Put it:

“The ornaments will decorate the main streets and avenues of the municipality, showing the cultural diversity of the people through icons, symbols and many colors [...]”

By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Letters and specialist in distance education.