Portuguese activity, aimed at students in the eighth grade of elementary school, explores punctuation marks. Let's analyze them in the text that presents us the book doctor disappear? To do so, answer the various interpretative questions proposed!
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
Read:
Lico was always different from other kids – from pacifiers to keys, everything around him disappeared! It didn't take long for the boy to discover that he had the superpower to make things disappear. And that's how an incredible hero emerged: Doctor Sumiço!
But Lico is about to discover that being a superhero is not an easy task. After all, the more people decide to ask Doutor Sumiço to make something (or someone) disappear, the sadder and more boring the world becomes. Will Doctor Sumiço himself need to disappear
This illustrated story, with a touch of comics, brings the typical humor of Caco Galhardo and provides many reflections without losing the good mood.
Author of the book: Caco Galhardo.
Available in: .
Question 1 – In the excerpt “Lico was always different from other children – from pacifiers to keys […]”, the dash:
( ) separates a sentence to highlight it.
( ) marks the beginning of a character's speech.
( ) isolates an interspersed sentence with an explanatory purpose.
Question 2 – The exclamation point was used, after “[…] everything around him disappeared!”, to express the feeling of:
( ) happiness.
( ) admiration.
( ) consternation.
Question 3 – In “It didn't take long for the boy to discover that he had the superpower to make things disappear.”, does the full stop end a simple or compound sentence? Explain:
Question 4 – In the passage “And that was how an incredible hero appeared: Doctor Sumiço!”, the colon announces:
( ) a quote.
( ) an enumeration.
( ) an explanation of something said earlier.
Question 5 – Watch:
“After all, the more people decide to ask Doutor Sumiço to make something (or someone) disappear […]”
In this segment, the parentheses indicate the intercalation of:
( ) An example.
( ) One comment.
( ) one explanation.
Question 6 – In the segment above, the parentheses could be replaced with:
( ) quotation marks.
( ) dashes.
( ) semicolon.
Question 7 – The period “Will Doctor Sumiço himself need to disappear”, must be ended with:
( ) full stop.
( ) exclamation mark.
( ) Question Mark.
Question 8 – Read back:
“This illustrated story, with a touch of comics, brings the typical humor of Caco Galhardo and provides many reflections without losing the good mood.”
In this fragment, the commas are:
( ) prohibited.
( ) optional.
( ) mandatory.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Letters and specialist in distance education.
