Portuguese activity, focused on students in the seventh year of elementary school, addresses proparoxytone words. Let's analyze these words in the text bats? Then, answer the proposed questions!
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
Read:
With more than 1400 known species, bats are the second Order of mammals in number of species, behind only rodents. Among all the mammals that exist in the world, about 20% are bats. They have a very varied diet and play very important roles in ecosystems, acting as pollinators, seed dispersers, controlling insect populations, among others. […]
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Question 1 – The word “mammals” is emphasized because it is:
( ) proparoxytone.
( ) paroxytone ending in diphthong.
( ) oxytone ending in “o”, followed by “s”.
Question 2 – Watch:
“[…] bats are the second Order of mammals in number of species, behind only rodents.”
In this passage, a proparoxytone word was transcribed without the accent. Identify it and place the accent correctly:
Question 3 – Underline the word proparoxytone below:
“They have a very varied diet and play very important roles in ecosystems […]”
Question 4 – The word proparoxytone underlined above is:
( ) a verb.
( ) an adjective.
( ) a noun.
Question 5 – It can be concluded that a word is proparoxytone when it has as its tonic:
( ) the last syllable.
( ) the penultimate syllable.
( ) the antepenultimate syllable.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Letters and specialist in distance education.
