Portuguese activity, aimed at students in the seventh year of elementary school, aims to study the adverb. Students are asked to identify the adverbs and circumstances they express in the text. I'd better have asked…
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
Read:
I went to visit my brother in Germany and chose to travel by train. A staff member was very kind and, despite not speaking English, and I don't understand any German, we were able to communicate very well by signs. When he got out of the car, a woman sitting next to me asked in English if I spoke German.
“I don't say a word,” I said.
'Ah, so it's explained why you didn't leave when he said you took the wrong train.
Reader's Digest Selections. Jan. 2009. P. 158.
Question 1 - In the opening section “I went to visit my brother in Germany and chose to travel by train.”, the phrase “by train” indicates:
( ) mode
( ) quite
( ) place
Question 2 - The phrase “de train” modifies the meaning of the verb:
( ) "visit"
( ) "I chose"
( ) "travel"
Question 3 – Look carefully at the sentences and then check the one in which the highlighted term works as an adverb:
( ) “[…] if I spoke German.”
( ) “An employee was much lovely […]"
( ) “[…] when he said you took the train wrong.”
Question 4 – The adverb, identified above, is called:
( ) adverb of time
( ) mode adverb
( ) adverb of intensity
Question 5 - In the passage “[…] we can communicate very well by signs.”, the adverb “very” intensifies the meaning:
( ) of the verb “communicate”.
( ) from the adverb “well”.
( ) of the phrase “by signs”.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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