Portuguese activity, focused on students in the ninth year of elementary school, about punctuation marks. Shall we analyze them in the text about the book “Van Gogh and the Color of the Sun”, by Caulos? To do so, answer the questions proposed!
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Do you know Vincent With this name, the Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh signed his works – beautiful paintings, which had nature and peasants as their main themes. Today, the works left by this genius artist are appreciated all over the world and are worth a fortune! But it was not always so. Van Gogh's life was full of difficulties and he... Ah! You need to read it!
“Science Today for Children” magazine. Edition 239.
Available in:. (With adaptation).
Question 1 – The following sentence was transcribed without the punctuation mark that ends it. Put it:
“You know Vincent”
Question 2 – In the segment “[…] his works – beautiful paintings, which had nature and peasants as their main themes.”, What is the function of the dash?
Question 3 – In the excerpt “Today, the works left by this genius artist […]”, the comma separates:
( ) a bet.
( ) a vocative.
( ) an adverbial adjunct.
Question 4 – In the passage “[…] and they are worth a fortune!”, the exclamation point indicates in relation to the fact the feeling of:
Question 5 – Watch:
"But it was not always so."
Does the full stop close a simple period or a compound period? Explain:
Question 6 – In “Van Gogh’s life was full of difficulties and he…”, the ellipses indicate:
( ) an atmosphere of suspense.
( ) the interruption of an idea.
( ) an incomplete transcription.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Literature and specialist in distance education.