Portuguese activity, focused on students in the first year of high school, on the comma. Let's analyze the uses of this punctuation mark in the text that introduces us to the book Northanger Abbey? To do this, answer the proposed questions!
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Catherine Morland, a naive young woman and voracious reader, will spend some time away from her peaceful rural life. At seventeen, the girl begins her season in Bath – an important coastal area frequented by the elite of England – full of expectation. There, she is invited to stay at an abbey.
The ancient building may have everything Catherine always imagined: mystery, a dark past and the glimmer of love. Parody of gothic narratives, which were successful in the 18th century, “Northanger Abbey” was the first novel completed by Jane Austen – although it was only published posthumously, in 1818.
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Question 1 – The following passage has been transcribed without the commas. Put them:
“Catherine Morland, a naive young woman and voracious reader, will spend some time away from her peaceful rural life.”
Question 2 – Enter the function of the commas in the passage above:
Question 3 – Watch:
“At seventeen, the girl begins her season in Bath […]”
In this excerpt, commas separate an adverbial adjunct that indicates a circumstance of:
Question 4 – In the part “[…] mystery, a dark past and the glimpse of love.”, the comma is:
( ) prohibited.
( ) optional.
( ) mandatory.
Question 5 – In “Parody of Gothic narratives, which were successful in the 18th century, “Northanger Abbey” was the first novel completed by Jane Austen [...]”, the commas indicate:
( ) an omission.
( ) one correction.
( ) an interleave.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Letters and specialist in distance education.
