Portuguese activity, aimed at students in the eighth year of elementary school, addresses punctuation marks. Let's analyze them in the text Self-portrait? To do this, answer the questions proposed! What sign should end the sentence “Have you noticed that the fashion now is to take your own photo”?
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SCHOOL: DATE:
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Read:
Have you noticed that the fashion now is to take your own photo? Know that this is not a very new idea. Centuries ago, self-portraits (which were drawn and painted) were already popular, especially among famous painters. The Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, who lived between 1907 and 1954, for example, made more than 50 reproductions of her own image!
“Science Today for Children” magazine. Edition 258.
Available in:. (Fragment).
Question 1 – Read back:
“Have you noticed that fashion now is taking your own photo”
This sentence was transcribed without the punctuation mark that ends it. Mark it:
( ) !
( ) ?
( ) …
Question 2 – In “Well know that this is not a very new idea.”, does the period close a simple or compound period? Explain:
Question 3 – In “Centuries ago, self-portraits […] were already successful […]”, the comma separates:
( ) a bet.
( ) a vocative.
( ) an adverbial adjunct.
Question 4 – Parentheses indicate the interleaving of:
( ) one correction.
( ) one explanation.
( ) a comment.
Question 5 – The exclamation point, used after “Mexican artist Frida Kahlo […] made more than 50 reproductions of her own image!”, expresses the feeling of:
( ) relief.
( ) happiness.
( ) admiration.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Literature and specialist in distance education.
