Portuguese Activity: Questions about demonstrative pronouns

Portuguese activity, aimed at 9th grade students, aims to study the demonstrative pronouns, through the text Why do cats sleep so much?

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Why do cats sleep so much?

Scientists have yet to fully unravel why these cats spend at least half of the day sleeping. One of the hypotheses raised is the fact that cats are, by nature, hunters. Thus, instinctively, they would save as much energy for the moment of an eventual hunt, even if this is unlikely in the lives of domesticated animals. Studies reveal that cats alternate moments of light sleep (about 70% of the time) with periods of deep sleep, when rapid eye movements can be observed – acronym REM, in English. This movement, also present in human sleep, is an indication that pussies can have dream activities, that is, dreams. Most experts believe in such a hypothesis and the fact that cats move their paws and nails, ear flapping and making strange noises in the REM sleep phase would be evidence of these dreams.

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Questions

Question 1 - Identify the purpose of who wrote the text:

question 2 – In the excerpt “Scientists have not yet been able to fully unravel why these cats go through […]”, the demonstrative pronoun “those” resumes:

a) the cats

b) the hunters

c) domesticated animals

d) the pussies

Question 3 - Transcribe the passage in the text that presents the use of a contracted demonstrative pronoun with a preposition. Then brand it:

Question 4 – "[…] even that is unlikely in the lives of domesticated animals.”. What does the highlighted demonstrative pronoun refer to?

Question 5 - The presence of demonstrative pronoun is registered in:

a) "One of the hypotheses raised is the fact that cats are, by nature, hunters."

b) "So, instinctively, they would save as much energy for the moment […]"

c) “Studies reveal that cats alternate moments of light sleep (about 70% of the time) […]”

d) "This movement, also present in human sleep, is an indication that pussies [...]"

By Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages ​​and specialist in distance education.

At answers are in the link above the header.

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