Portuguese activity: Direct transitive verbs

Portuguese activity, focused on students in the ninth year of elementary school, explores direct transitive verbs. When are verbs classified like this? Let's learn? For this, answer the proposed questions based on the text about the giant anteater!

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SCHOOL: DATE:

PROF: CLASS:

NAME:

Read:

giant anteater

The giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla) also represents beauty. This giant has very interesting characteristics: it is the only land mammal that does not have teeth. The length of the head and body is more than one and a half meters: the snout alone is almost 45 centimeters. The tail varies from 60 to 90 centimeters and has long hairs that form a kind of “flag”, a characteristic that inspired the popular name.

They are insectivores, meaning they feed only on ants and termites. They open the termite mounds and anthills with their powerful claws and introduce their long tongue, which can protrude 60 centimeters out of the mouth.

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Questions

Question 1 - Underline the following verb:

“The giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla) also represents beauty.”

Question 2 – The italicized verb above is direct transitive because:

( ) does not require a complement.

( ) requires complement with preposition.

( ) requires complement without preposition.

Question 3 – Identify the segment that contains a direct transitive verb:

( ) “This giant has very interesting characteristics [...]”

( ) “The length of the head and body is more than one and a half meters […]”

( ) “They are insectivores, that is, they feed only on ants and termites.”

Question 4 – The direct transitive verb, used in the fragment “[…] characteristic that inspired the popular name.”, refers to:

( ) to the 1st person singular.

( ) to the 2nd person singular.

( ) to the 3rd person singular.

Question 5 - Regarding the passage “They open the termite mounds and anthills with powerful claws and introduce their long tongue […]”, it can be said that:

( ) the verb “Abrem” is direct transitive.

( ) the verb “introduce” is direct transitive.

( ) the verb “Abrem” and the verb “introducem” are direct transitive.

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