Portuguese activity, aimed at students in the eighth year of elementary school, about punctuation marks. Let's analyze them in the text Origami in the trash can? To do this, answer the questions proposed!
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Do you know how long it takes for a plastic bag to decompose About 100! Paper, as it is an organic material, takes three to six months.
How about helping the planet and avoiding the use of plastic bags? With the ancient art of origami (paper folding), we can give nature a boost by lining our trash cans with bags made from newspaper.
The idea came from origami that teaches us how to make a cup and it's very simple. You can use one, two or even three sheets of newspaper together to make the bag more resistant. […]
Teresa Yamashita. “Science Today for Children” magazine. Edition 216.
Available in:. (Fragment).
Question 1 – The period “Do you know how long it takes for a plastic bag to decompose” must end with the sign:
( ) .
( ) ?
( ) …
Question 2 – The exclamation mark was used, after “About 100!”, to express the feeling of:
( ) fear.
( ) apathy.
( ) astonishment.
Question 3 – In “Paper, as it is an organic material, takes three to six months.”, does the end point end a simple period or a compound period? Explain:
Question 4 – Parentheses indicate the interspersal of:
( ) one correction.
( ) One comment.
( ) one explanation.
Question 5 – In the part “You can use one, two or even three sheets of newspaper […]”, the comma:
( ) indicates an omission.
( ) indicates an enumeration.
( ) indicates a displacement.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Literature and specialist in distance education.
