Portuguese activity, focused on students in the ninth year of elementary school, explores verbal voices. Active voice, passive voice and reflexive voice! How about analyzing the verbal voices in the text about foot-and-mouth disease? To do so, answer the proposed questions!
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
Read:
Foot-and-mouth disease is a viral disease transmitted by physical contact between animals and contaminated objects. It not only attacks cattle, but also pigs, deer, sheep, goats and other animals. The virus causes blisters on the oral and nasal mucosa, skin and nails of animals. With a lot of pain, they start to lie down for a long time and weaken, as they stop eating and hydrating properly. Foot-and-mouth disease occurs in several countries around the world.
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Question 1 - Underline the verb in the passive voice below:
"Foot and mouth disease is a viral disease, transmitted by physical contact between animals and contaminated objects."
Question 2 – The verb in the passive voice highlighted above expresses:
( ) an action.
( ) a state.
( ) a feature.
Question 3 – In the passage “She does not only attack cattle […]”, the verb is in the active voice, since the subject is:
( ) agent.
( ) patient.
( ) agent and patient.
Question 4 – In the segment “[…] they lie down for a long time and weaken […]”, the “if” indicates:
( ) the reflexive voice of the verb “weakened”.
( ) the pronominal passive voice of the verb “weakened”.
( ) the indeterminacy of the subject of the verb “weakened”.
Question 5 - The verb in the active voice, present in the passage “Foot-and-mouth disease occurs in several countries of the world.”, refers to:
( ) 1st person singular.
( ) 2nd person singular.
( ) 3rd person singular.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Letters and specialist in distance education.