Portuguese activity, focused on first-year high school students, explores the adverbial adjuncts. Let's look at the circumstances they indicate in the text. How could we do without an elevator? To do this, answer the various questions proposed!
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The elevator already existed in antiquity. But it was necessary to make it less scary to paste
The answer seems obvious: we were taking the stairs. Nothing obvious, however, is knowing that elevators and stairs have lived together for more than 2,000 years. Following several simpler methods (something like a mere basket pulled by a cable to a tower), they began to be used massively even in Rome.
That was a technology that didn't get lost. During the Middle Ages, pulley elevators were used to carry stones in the construction of walls around cities – the so-called burgs. At the end of the period, the houses gave way to buildings of up to seven floors. “It was necessary to make better use of the spaces in the cities”, says Lélio Reiner, professor of architecture at Faculdade Belas Artes de São Paulo. Even so, elevators continued to be the privilege of chickens and bottles of wine even in the great castles.
Elevator of people only appeared with the Industrial Revolution. They were steam powered. Elisha Graves Otis – whose company survives to this day – created in 1852 the first modern civil elevator. “New York and Chicago started building the first skyscrapers at that time,” says Lélio. To climb to the eighth floor, the steam-powered contraption took more than two minutes.
Imagine that today there is equipment that travels 100 floors in a minute. In 1880, Werner von Siemens builds the first electric elevator. In Brazil, this marvel of sedentary lifestyle appeared in 1906: it was installed in the Palácio das Laranjeiras, the official government building of Rio de Janeiro.
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Question 1 - The following sentence has two adverbial tense adjuncts. Highlight them:
"The elevator already existed in Antiquity."
Question 2 - In “But it was necessary to make it less scary to paste […]”, the adverbial adverbial “less” intensifies a characteristic attributed to:
A:
Question 3 - The highlighted excerpt is an adverbial adverbial of place in the sentence:
( ) “[…] they started to be massively used still In Rome.”
( ) “[…] architecture professor at Faculty of Fine Arts of São Paulo.”
( ) “[…] at Palácio das Laranjeiras, official government building of Rio de Janeiro.”
Question 4 - In the fragment “Successing several simpler methods […]”, the adverbial adjunct “more” intensifies:
( ) an action of several methods.
( ) a state of various methods.
( ) a feature of several methods.
Question 5 - In “[…] they started to be used Massively […]", the underlined word is:
( ) an adverbial adjunct so
( ) an adverbial of cause
( ) an adverbial of intensity
Question 6 – In the phrase "It was necessary to make better use of the spaces in cities", the term "better" plays the role of:
( ) bet
( ) adverbial adjunct
( ) adnominal assistant
Question 7 – In the part "They were powered by steam.", the adverbial adjunct is expressed:
( ) by an adverb.
( ) by an adverbial phrase.
( ) by an adverbial expression.
Question 8 – In the segment "Imagine that today there are equipment that travel 100 floors in a minute.", the adverbial time adjunct "today" modifies the meaning:
( ) of a verb.
( ) of an adjective.
( ) from an adverb.
Question 9 – The adverbial tense "in 1906" points to the fact:
( ) the arrival of the elevator in Brazil.
( ) the construction of the electric elevator.
( ) the creation of the modern civil elevator.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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