
Portuguese activity, aimed at ninth grade students, explores the voices of the verb. Active, passive or reflective voice? Do you know the role they play? How about learning? Then answer the questions based on the text about the writer oscar wilde!
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Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born in Dublin on 16 October 1854.
The second of three children, he was raised in a Protestant family (he later converted to the Catholic Church), studied at Portora Royal School of Enniskillen and in the Trinity College Dublin, where he excelled as a Latinist and Hellenist. He later won a scholarship to the Magdalen College Oxford.
Wilde left Oxford in 1878. Just before I won the “Newdigate” prize for the poem “Ravenna”.
He moved to London and began to have a very busy social life, being soon characterized by extravagant attitudes.
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Question 1 - The following facts refer to the life of Oscar Wilde. Identify the one in which the subject (Oscar Wilde) is a patient of the action expressed by the verb or verbal locution:
( ) “[…] was raised in a Protestant family […]”
() “[…] Where he excelled as a Latinist and Hellenist.”
( ) “He later won a scholarship for the Magdalen College Oxford.”
Question 2 - The verb is in the passive voice when the subject is patient. Move the prayer marked in the previous question to the active voice:
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Question 3 - In the passage “[…] later he converted to the Catholic Church […]”, the pronoun “if” indicates the use of the voice:
( ) active
( ) reflective
( ) pronominal passive
Question 4 – In the third paragraph, the phrase in the active voice "to have won" has as subject:
( ) "Wild"
( ) "the prize Newdigate”
( ) "the poem Ravenna”
Question 5 - At the end of the text, the “characterized” participle comprises a sentence:
( ) in the passive analytical voice
( ) in the pronominal passive voice
By Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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