Portuguese activity, focused on eighth grade students, explores verb moods. Indicative, subjunctive and imperative! Let's analyze them in the text about the book The wind in the willows? Then answer the proposed questions!
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
Read:
For over a century, The wind in the willows and its captivating protagonists delight children of all ages. Whether the four friends are off on an exciting adventure or are involved in a situation of total disaster or simply relaxing on the River Thames, his stories are among the most charming in all of literature. English. And if you have stubbornly loyal friends like Mole, Water Rat, Badger, and Frog, sit back and enjoy Kenneth Grahame's riveting narrative.
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Question 1 - Underline the following verb:
“For more than a century, The wind in the willows and its captivating protagonists delight children of all ages.”
Question 2 – The verb underlined above is in the indicative mood because it expresses:
( ) a certainty.
( ) a possibility.
( ) a recommendation.
Question 3 – The verb in the subjunctive mood, used in the passage “Want the four friends are leaving on an exciting adventure […]”, was used in the tense:
( ) gift.
( ) imperfect tense.
( ) future.
Question 4 – In the segment “What if you have stubbornly loyal friends like Mole […]”, the verb “to have” was inflected in the mood:
( ) indicative.
( ) subjunctive.
( ) imperative.
Question 5 – In “[…] sit back and enjoy Kenneth Grahame’s fascinating narrative.”, verbs in the imperative mood have the tone of:
( ) alert.
( ) order.
( ) invitation.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Letters and specialist in distance education.