Portuguese activity, focused on students of the first year of high school, about passive agent. Let's analyze it in the text Cave of the Hands? To do so, answer the proposed questions!
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
Read:
In Patagonia, Argentina, a cave has drawings of hundreds of hands on its walls. It's the call Cave of the Hands, with paintings that were made 9,000 years ago by Indians.
This treasure trove of rock art was discovered in 1941 by a priest named De Agostini. In addition to the hand drawings, the cave features images of humans, felines, emus and other animals; geometric designs, lines, dots and the sun. The figures appear in different colors: red, ocher, yellow, green, white and black.
The cave has been classified as an Argentine National Historic Monument. In 1999, it was considered a World Heritage Site by Unesco (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization).
Denise Moraes.
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Question 1 - The passive agent is the complement of a verb in the passive voice. Underline it below:
"It's the call Cave of the Hands, with paintings that were made 9,000 years ago by Indians.”
Question 2 – Watch:
“This treasure of rock art was discovered in 1941 by a priest named De Agostini.”
Identify the passive agent in this period of the text:
Question 3 – Rewrite the sentence above so that the agent of the passive becomes the subject of the sentence in the active voice:
Question 4 – Check the passage that contains a passive agent:
( ) “[…] a cave has drawings of hundreds of hands on its walls.”
( ) “The figures appear in different colors: red, ocher, yellow, green, white and black.”
( ) “In 1999, it became a UNESCO World Heritage Site […]”
Question 5 - The passive agent, in the passage indicated above, is introduced by the preposition:
( ) "in".
( ) "in".
( ) "per".
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Letters and specialist in distance education.
