Portuguese activity, focused on students in the ninth year of elementary school, addresses pronouns. How about analyzing them in the text pests? To do this, answer the proposed questions!
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
Read:
Every being – whether animal or plant – harmful to agriculture is considered a pest. Many insect species are pests and cause enormous damage to crops and plantations around the world. Millions of dollars are spent every year trying to contain _____________ damage.
The “locust clouds” – formed by migratory species – devastate all vegetation found in their path. They are not the only ones to devour crops destined for man. Major groups of insect pests include aphids, flies, bed bugs, crickets, grasshoppers and beetles.
Bruno Delecave.
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Question 1 - In the excerpt below, there is a pronoun. Highlight it:
“Many insect species are pests […]”
Question 2 – The underlined pronoun above is:
( ) relative.
( ) guys.
( ) Undefined.
Question 3 – In “[…] to try to contain _____________damage.”, the space must be filled with the demonstrative pronoun:
( ) "these".
( ) "Those".
( ) "those ones".
Question 4 – The possessive pronoun, used in the segment “[…] devastate all vegetation found in their path.”, refers to:
( ) to the 1st person.
( ) to the 2nd person.
( ) to the 3rd person.
Question 5 – The pronouns, present in the text about plagues, exercise the syntactic function of:
( ) subject.
( ) object.
( ) adnominal adjunct.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Letters and specialist in distance education.
