Portuguese activity, aimed at students in the ninth year of elementary school, addresses comma uses. Let's analyze this punctuation mark in the text about the toucanuçu? To do so, answer the proposed questions! In “Inquieta, the species jumps from branch to branch […]”, does a comma separate an apposition, a vocative or a predicative?
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Common in gallery forests, cerrado and capões, the toucanuçu also flies over open fields and wide rivers.
About 55 cm long, the bird has an orange beak, black feathers and a white crop tinged with yellow and bordered with red.
Restless, the species jumps from branch to branch and, when it flies, glides in the air for a while. It lives in pairs or in groups and feeds on large fruits, rich in fats and proteins, as well as fig fruits, palm nuts, orchard fruits, insects and arthropods.
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Question 1 – The following passage has been transcribed without a comma. Put it:
“Common in gallery forests, cerrado and capões, the toucanuçu also flies over open fields and wide rivers.”
Question 2 – In “[…] the bird has an orange beak, black feathers and white crop tinged with yellow and bordered with red.”, the comma indicates:
( ) an omission.
( ) one correction.
( ) an enumeration.
Question 3 – In the part “Unquiet, the species jumps from branch to branch […]”, the comma separates:
( ) a bet.
( ) a vocative.
( ) a predicate.
Question 4 – In the section “[…] the species jumps from branch to branch and, when it flies, glides in the air for a while.”, the commas indicate:
Question 5 – In the segment “It lives in pairs or in groups and feeds on large fruits, rich in fats and proteins […]”, the comma is:
( ) prohibited.
( ) optional.
( ) mandatory.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Letters and specialist in distance education.