Portuguese activity, focused on students in the ninth year of elementary school, explores adverbs. How about analyzing them in the text Was Sherlock Holmes a scientist? To do this, answer the proposed questions!
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A coat, a hat, a magnifying glass and a pipe in the corner of his mouth. This is how detectives are featured in many cartoons. The inspiration comes from Sherlock Holmes, a character created by Scottish doctor and writer Arthur Conan Doyle in the 19th century. Sherlock became a literary star, perhaps because he was the first detective in history to use the scientific method to solve the most curious and difficult crimes imagined by his creator.
Certainly, it was also Sherlock who started the so-called forensic science, a specialty that to this day is used by Justice to reach a criminal, through clues left by him or her at the location of a crime. Sherlock invented and publicized several methods for deducing facts about both victims and criminals. […]
Magazine “Science Today for Children”. Edition 226.
Available in:. (Fragment).
Question 1 - In the passage “This is how detectives are characterized in many cartoons.”, there is an adverb. Identify it:
Question 2 – The adverb identified above expresses a circumstance of:
( ) place.
( ) mode.
( ) intensity.
Question 3 – In the segment “[…] perhaps because he was the first detective in history to use the scientific method […]”, an adverb indicating doubt was used. Locate it:
Question 4 – In “[…] the most curious and difficult crimes […]”, the adverb intensifies the meaning of:
( ) verbs.
( ) adjectives.
( ) adverbs.
Question 5 - Identify, in the last paragraph of the text, the adverb of time:
Question 6 - Underline the following adverb:
“Certainly, it was also Sherlock who started so-called forensic science […]”
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Letters and specialist in distance education.
