Portuguese activity, focused on students in the ninth grade of elementary school, addresses comma. Let's analyze this punctuation mark in the text about the movie whispers in the heart? To do so, answer the proposed questions! In the section “As the two get closer, he tells that he has the dream […]”, does the comma indicate an omission, an enumeration or a displacement?
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Shizuku is a young woman with a passion for books who lives a simple life. One day, she discovers that every book she has ever picked up at the bookstore has been checked by the same person, Seiji Amasawa. She meets a boy her age who she finds annoying, but discovers he is her "Prince of Books". As the two grow closer, he shares that he has a dream of making violins which makes Shizuku realize that she has no path for her life.
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Question 1 – In the passage “One day, she discovers that all the books she has already picked up at the bookstore […]”, the comma separates an adverbial adjunct that expresses:
( ) place.
( ) mode.
( ) time.
Question 2 – In “[…] were checked by the same person, Seiji Amasawa.”, the comma indicates:
( ) a bet.
( ) a vocative.
( ) a predicative of the subject.
Question 3 – In the sentence "She meets a boy her age who she finds annoying but discovers he is her 'Prince of Books'.", the comma is:
( ) prohibited.
( ) optional.
( ) mandatory.
Question 4 – In the section “As the two get closer, he tells that he has the dream [...]”, the comma indicates:
( ) an omission.
( ) an enumeration.
( ) a displacement.
Question 5 – The fragment below has been transcribed without the comma. Put it:
“[…] of making violins which makes Shizuku realize that she has no path for her life.”
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Letters and specialist in distance education.