Portuguese activity, indicated for students in the eighth year of elementary school, aims to study the vocative. Do you know its function? How about learning? So, answer the proposed questions based on the beautiful text a father's prayer, written by Moacyr Scliar!
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
Read:
Give me, Lord, strength to accomplish all that my son expects of me; but make it, Lord, that my son's expectations never exceed the limit of my strength.
Give me, Lord, patience that I may bear impertinence and listen to recriminations; but if I have to knock, Lord, make my hand have the lightness of a child's hair to float in the breeze.
Give me, Lord, energy, but give me, too, tolerance, give me the wisdom of maturity, but give me also the innocence of childhood; give me a stern look, Lord, but also give me a tender smile. (…)
SCLIAR, Moacyr. “A country called childhood”. São Paulo: Attica, 2003.
Question 1 - Identify the passage that contains a vocative:
( ) “[…] to accomplish everything my son expects of me […]”
( ) “[…] have the lightness of a child's hair floating in the breeze.”
( ) “Give me, Lord, energy […]”
Question 2 - In the prayer “Have mercy on me, Father!”, the vocative is introduced by an interjection that expresses:
( ) a wish
( ) an appeal
( ) an order
Question 3 - Mark the function performed by the vocative:
( ) modify the meaning of a term.
( ) explain a term or expression.
( ) call the person to whom it is addressed.
Question 4 – The vocative, present in the text, is separated by a punctuation mark. Point it out:
( ) comma (s)
( ) end
( ) semicolon
Question 5 - The vocative is:
( ) a separate term.
( ) an essential term of prayer.
( ) an accessory term of prayer.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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