A gramática no livro didático do 9º ano do ensino fundamental: análise do “que” no período composto.

Abstract

The aim of this study is to analyze the presentation of the “that” in compound sentence from 9th year textbook of basic education Living Together Portuguese. For this purpose, it was expatiated about the syntax and the morphology of the “that” in compound sentence for the theorist Perini‟s Normative Grammar and his descriptive syntax, describing how it is presented in the study about the “that” in compound sentence from the Textbook, in addition to suggest how the descriptive syntax can influence for a better teaching about the “that” in compound sentence. Then, the theoretical assumptions by Joaquim Mattoso Câmara (2007) about morphology were observed, and the ideas by Mário de Andrade Perini (2005) about syntax also were considered. From integrated content in the four books collection Living Together Portuguese, the 9th year textbook was selected as corpus for this research. It is a documental stamp analysis with a descriptive and quant-qualitative nature. According to the investigation, we conclude that 50% from textbook activities that approach compound sentence, only 15% use the “that”, whereas 35% do not use the “that” in compound sentence, that is, it only highlights other grammatical aspects. The analyzed 15% from textbook activities use the “that” in compound sentence, adopting more the syntactic than the morphologic criterion. It is because the conjunction and the relative pronoun are not integrated as essential demarcations in the developed clause.