Portuguese activity, focused on students in the eighth year of elementary school, on accentuation. How about analyzing the accented words in the text Do tears and sweat have the same composition? To do so, answer the proposed questions!
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Both tears and sweat are made up of water and sodium chloride. But each in different amounts. Tears have the same concentration of sodium chloride as plasma, the liquid part of blood. Sweat, on the other hand, has a much lower content of the substance, half that of tears. This is because it serves to reduce the amount of body heat. Too much sodium chloride would make it harder for the water to evaporate.
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Question 1 - Underline the accented paroxytone words in this segment:
“Both tears and sweat are made up of water and sodium chloride.”
Question 2 – The underlined paroxytones above are accentuated because:
( ) end in “a”.
( ) end in a vowel.
( ) end in a diphthong.
Question 3 – In the excerpt below, a word was transcribed without the accent. Put it:
“[…] the plasma, the liquid part of the blood.”
Question 4 – The word highlighted in the previous question is:
( ) oxytone.
( ) paroxysmal.
( ) proparoxytone.
Question 5 – Watch:
“Sweat, on the other hand, has a much lower content of the substance, half of what tears have.”
In this passage, there is a stressed monosyllable. Identify it:
( ) "Already".
( ) "substance".
( ) "teardrop".
Question 6 - Inform the reason for the accentuation of the stressed monosyllable, identified above:
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