Portuguese activity, focused on students in the ninth grade of elementary school, explores passive voice verbs. How about analyzing this verbal voice in the text about the Coconut Tanager? To do this, answer the proposed questions!
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To begin with, the cup-shaped nest is built in the dense foliage or leaf sheaths of palm trees (hence its name). Wide, dry leaves coated with vegetable fiber are used. The female lays, on average, 2 eggs, which are incubated for 14 days. After hatching, the chicks remain in the nest between 17 and 21 days and are fed by their parents.
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Question 1 – Read back:
“[…] the cup-shaped nest is built in the dense foliage or leaf sheaths of palm trees (hence its name).”
Cite a verb in the passive voice with the same meaning as the one used in this passage:
Question 2 – In the segment “Broad and dry leaves are used […]”, the subject of the verb in the passive voice is:
( ) hidden.
( ) simple.
( ) composite.
Question 3 – Underline the verb in the passive voice below:
“The female lays, on average, 2 eggs, which are incubated for 14 days.”
Question 4 – Watch:
“After hatching, the chicks remain in the nest for between 17 and 21 days and are fed by their parents.”
The complement of a verb in the passive voice is called the passive agent. Identify the referred agent in this passage of the text:
Question 5 – In the passage above, the passive agent is introduced by the preposition:
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Letters and specialist in distance education.