Portuguese activity, focused on students in the ninth year of elementary school, addresses the uses of the comma. Are we going to look at various functions of this punctuation mark? To do this, answer the questions based on the text Small remarkable!
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At 1.53m tall, Carmen Miranda was a short woman. To look a little bigger, she liked to wear those high platform heels. Because of this, broadcaster César Ladeira affectionately named it “The little notable”. Just to sum up, between the 1930s and 1950s Carmen worked in radio, magazine theater, film and television. She even received the highest salary ever paid to a woman in the United States. Her style even influenced Tropicalismo, a Brazilian cultural movement that emerged in the late 1960s.
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Question 1 - In the segment “With 1.53m tall, Carmen Miranda was a short woman.”, the comma was used to:
( ) indicate an omission.
( ) indicate an entry.
( ) indicate an offset.
Question 2 - Locate the passage in the text in which the comma was also used for the reason given in the previous question:
A.
Question 3 - The excerpt below was transcribed without a comma. Put it on:
“Because of that, radio host César Ladeira affectionately named it “The Little Notable”.
Question 4 – Identify the part of the text where commas signal an enumeration:
A.
Question 5 - In the segment “Just to summarize, between the 1930s and 1950s, Carmen worked […]”, the commas separate an adverbial adjunct that expresses:
( ) place.
( ) mode.
( ) time.
Question 6 – In the period that ends the text, the comma separates:
( ) a bet.
( ) a vocative.
( ) a predicative of the subject.
Per Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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