Portuguese Activity: Uses of Comma

Portuguese activity, aimed at students in the ninth year of elementary school, about the comma. How about analyzing uses of this punctuation mark in the text that presents us with the book the widow simões? So, answer the questions proposed below! In “In mourning and afraid of the recrimination of society and of tarnishing his reputation, he left out […]”, does the comma indicate an omission, an intercalation or a displacement? Let's go to the challenge?

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SCHOOL: DATE:

PROF: CLASS:

NAME:

Read:

“The Widow Simões”

After the death of her husband, the widow Simões rarely left the house, living a routine at home with her five servants and her teenage daughter, Sara. In grief and fear of society's recrimination and tarnishing her reputation, she set aside her status, parties and social events. Until the arrival of Luciano, an old love of his youth, who, upon learning of the death of the widow's husband, returned to Brazil to see her, will transform her and her daughter's life.

Author of the book: Júlia Lopes de Almeida. Available in: .

Questions

Question 1 - In the segment “After her husband's death, the widow Simões rarely left the house […]”, the comma separates an expression that expresses:

( ) place.

( ) mode.

( ) time.

Question 2 - In “[…] she rarely left the house, living a routine […]”, the comma precedes:

( ) an infinitive verb.

( ) a verb in the gerund.

( ) a verb in the participle.

Question 3 - In the part “In mourning and fearing society's recrimination and tarnishing her reputation, she left out […]”, the comma indicates:

( ) an omission.

( ) an interleaving.

( ) an offset.

Question 4 – In the passage “[…] your status, parties and social events.”, the comma indicates the enumeration of elements:

( ) opposites.

( ) alternated.

( ) correlated.

Question 5 - In the excerpt “Until the arrival of Luciano, an old love of his youth, who upon learning of the death […]”, the commas separate:

( ) a bet.

( ) a vocative.

( ) an adverbial adjunct.

By Denyse Lage Fonseca

Graduated in Languages ​​and specialist in distance education.

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