Portuguese activity: Simple subject

Portuguese activity, aimed at students in the eighth year of elementary school, on simple subject. Let's analyze this type of subject in the text the phases of the moon? To do so, answer the proposed questions!

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SCHOOL: DATE:

PROF: CLASS:

NAME:

Read:

the phases of the moon

The different appearances of the Moon are called phases. They happen because the Moon revolves around the Earth and, along this path, we see its part illuminated from different positions. The Moon, like the Earth, is always receiving light from the Sun on a part of its surface. When the illuminated part is all facing the Earth, we have the Full Moon, and when the illuminated part is completely opposite the Earth, we have the New Moon, the one in which it does not appear. Between these two phases, there are two more well-known ones: the Crescent and the Waning Quarter. In both, we see half of the illuminated half of the Moon. […]

Magazine “Science Today for Children”. Edition 203. Available in: .
(With cut and adaptations)

Questions

Question 1 - In the clause “The different appearances of the Moon are called phases.”, the core of the simple subject is:

( ) "many different".

( ) “appearances”.

( ) “Moon”.

Question 2 – The simple subject of the verb “happens” is a pronoun:

( ) folks.

( ) Undefined.

( ) demonstrative.

Question 3 – Underline the simple subject verb below:

“[…] the Moon revolves around the Earth and, along this path, we see its illuminated part […]”

Question 4 – In “The Moon, like the Earth, is always receiving light from the Sun […]”, the commas that separate the simple subject from the predicate indicate:

( ) the omission of elements.

( ) the interleaving of elements.

( ) the enumeration of elements.

Question 5 - In the segment “Between these two phases, there are two more well-known ones […]”, the subject of the verb “exist” is:

( ) hidden.

( ) simple.

( ) undetermined.

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