Portuguese activity, focused on students in the ninth year of elementary school, explores the comma. Let's analyze the uses of this punctuation mark in the text that introduces us to the film Cats at the Museum? To do so, answer the questions proposed!
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A young cat named Vincent in the company of the mouse Maurice escapes from a flood and is picked up by sailors. Sent to St. Petersburg, Vincent meets an elite feline squad at the Hermitage Museum, who have been protecting works of art from rats and other pests for centuries. Vincent dreams of finding a real feline family, but he doesn't want to lose his friend Maurice, who saved his life. He will then have to hide his friend, who also has a “little weakness” – he loves to gnaw on masterpieces of painting. The situation becomes even more complicated when one of humanity's greatest paintings, the Mona Lisa, arrives at the Museum, and it is every rat's dream to gnaw it. But Vincent, Maurice and the cats at the Hermitage Museum have no idea that the painting will be stolen.
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Question 1 – The following excerpt was transcribed without commas. Put them:
“A young cat named Vincent in the company of the mouse Maurice escapes from a flood […]”
Question 2 – In the part “Sent to Saint Petersburg, Vincent meets a feline squad […]”, is the comma prohibited, optional or mandatory?
Question 3 – In the segment “Vincent dreams of finding a real feline family, but doesn’t want to lose his friend Maurice […]”, the comma separates a sentence:
( ) explanatory.
( ) alternative.
( ) adversative.
Question 4 – In the passage “The situation becomes even more complicated when one of the greatest paintings of humanity, the Mona Lisa, arrives at the Museum […]”, the commas indicate:
( ) a bet.
( ) a vocative.
( ) an adverbial adjunct.
Question 5 – In “But Vincent, Maurice and the cats of the Hermitage Museum […]”, the comma indicates:
( ) an omission.
( ) an interleaving.
( ) an enumeration.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Literature and specialist in distance education.
