Portuguese activity, focused on students in the ninth grade of elementary school, explores the comma. Let's look at the uses of this punctuation mark in the text about the book The Tenant of Wildfell Hall? To do this, answer the proposed questions!
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When Wildfell Hall was inhabited by a new resident, everyone in the village speculated who the mysterious tenant would be. Young and pretty, but averse to social activities, the widow and son aroused a lot of curiosity, gossip and the the interest of the handsome Gilbert Markham, a young farmer who discovers that Helen Graham is a landscape painter of great capacity. The air of secrecy of Mrs. Graham, however, leads the gentleman to assume that she is hiding from someone. But whose?
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Question 1 – The fragment below has been transcribed without the comma. Put it:
“When Wildfell Hall was inhabited by a new resident, everyone in the village was wondering who the mysterious tenant would be.”
Question 2 – In the section “Young and pretty, but averse to social activities, the widow and son aroused a lot of curiosity [...]”, the commas indicate:
( ) one correction.
( ) one explanation.
( ) an interleave.
Question 3 – In “[…] a lot of curiosity, gossip and the interest in beauty […]”, the comma indicates:
( ) an omission.
( ) an enumeration.
( ) a detachment.
Question 4 – In the passage “[…] Gilbert Markham, a young farmer who discovers that Helen […]”, the comma separates:
( ) a bet.
( ) a vocative.
( ) an adverbial adjunct.
Question 5 – In the period “Mrs. Graham, however, misleads the gentleman into supposing that she is hiding from someone.”, the commas are:
( ) prohibited.
( ) optional.
( ) mandatory.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Letters and specialist in distance education.
