Portuguese activity: Voices of the verb

Portuguese activity, focused on students in the ninth year of elementary school, explores verb voices. Active voice, passive voice and reflexive voice! Let's analyze these voices in the text How does water produce electricity? To do so, answer the proposed questions!

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SCHOOL: DATE:

PROF: CLASS:

NAME:

Read:

How does water produce electricity?

To understand the process, you need to know the difference between potential and kinetic energies. Potential is the ability of the static object to move (energy without movement), while kinetic is the displacement itself (energy of movement). In a dam, standing water accumulates potential energy. When the floodgates are opened, the potential energy turns into kinetic energy and drives the turbines. Electric energy is produced by a generator that works with the movement of turbines.

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Questions

Question 1 - In “How does water produce electricity?”, the verb is in the active voice because:

( ) the subject is an agent.

( ) the subject is patient.

( ) the subject is agent and patient.

Question 2 – In the passage “In a dam, standing water accumulates potential energy.”, the verb in the active voice refers to:

( ) to the 1st person singular.

( ) to the 2nd person singular.

( ) to the 3rd person singular.

Question 3 – In the segment “[…] the potential energy is transformed into kinetic […]”, the “if” indicates:

( ) the reflexive voice of the verb “transforma”.

( ) the pronominal passive voice of the verb “transforma”.

( ) the indeterminacy of the subject of the verb “transforma”.

Question 4 – Underline the verb in the passive voice in the following passage:

“The electrical energy is produced by a generator that works with the movement of the turbines.”

Question 5 - The complement of a verb in the passive voice is called the passive agent. In the passage above, the passive agent is introduced by the preposition:

( ) "per".

( ) "with".

( ) "in".

By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Letters and specialist in distance education.