Portuguese activity, focused on students in the eighth year of elementary school, addresses demonstrative pronouns. How about analyzing them in the text fossil cockroaches? To do this, answer the proposed questions!
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
Read:
The oldest fossil of one of these insects is more than 300 million years old. This means that, in addition to being much older than humans, cockroaches are older than dinosaurs. While these giant reptiles went extinct, cockroaches have survived to this day, and even modern insecticides are difficult to wipe out.
However, ____________ fossil cockroaches differed from current cockroaches in having long external ovipositors (an organ used by insects to lay eggs). The first fossils of today's cockroaches appeared at the beginning of the Cretaceous period.
Bruno Amorim.
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Question 1 - Underline the following demonstrative pronoun:
“This means that in addition to being much older than humans, cockroaches are older than dinosaurs.”
Question 2 – The underlined demonstrative pronoun above is:
( ) invariable.
( ) variable in gender.
( ) variable in number.
Question 3 – In “While these giant reptiles went extinct […]”, the demonstrative pronoun:
( ) resume.
( ) announces.
( ) complements.
Question 4 – In the passage “However, ____________ fossil cockroaches differed from the current ones in having ovipositors […]”, the space must be filled with the demonstrative pronoun:
( ) “these”.
( ) "these".
( ) “those”.
Question 5 – There is a word in the text that is the contraction of a preposition with a demonstrative pronoun. What preposition?
( ) "in".
( ) "in".
( ) "per".
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Letters and specialist in distance education.