Portuguese Activity: Uses of Comma

Portuguese activity, aimed at first-year high school students, addresses uses of the comma. Do you have questions regarding this punctuation mark? Then, answer the various proposed questions that explore the commas in the text Brief visit to parliamentary countries!

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Brief visit to parliamentary countries

Some parliamentary countries are monarchist, like Spain and England. In these nations, there is a king or a queen, but who actually governs is the prime minister. The sovereign plays only a symbolic role, as he has no decision-making power. Countries like Portugal and Israel, in turn, are parliamentary republics. In them, there is the figure of the President of the Republic and the Prime Minister. Depending on the country, the president of the Republic – directly elected by the citizens in elections – may have more or less power. In France, for example, he is responsible for national defense and for the relations his country maintains with other nations. In Israel on the other hand, he has no power of command. That's actually up to the prime minister.

“Ciência Hoje das Crianças” magazine. Edition 173. Available in: .

Questions

Question 1 - In the passage “Some parliamentary countries are monarchists, like Spain and England.”, the comma introduces:

( ) a cause.

( ) a comparison.

( ) an example.

Question 2 - In the passage “In these nations, there is a king or a queen […]”, the comma separates an expression that takes up:

( ) “parliamentary countries”.

( ) “monarchists”.

( ) “Spain and England”.

Question 3 - In “[…] there is a king or a queen, but who governs […]”, the comma separates coordinated clauses:

( ) additives.

( ) conclusive.

( ) adversaries.

Question 4 – Reread this period of the text:

“The sovereign plays only a symbolic role, as he has no decision-making power.”

In this period of the text, the comma precedes a conjunction that could be replaced by:

( ) "although".

( ) "why".

( ) "that is why".

Question 5 - In the sentence "In them, there is the figure of the president of the Republic and the prime minister.", the comma isolates the term "In them" which refers to:

 A.

Question 6 – In the part “Depending on the country, the president of the Republic – directly elected by the citizens in elections – may have more or less power.”, the comma indicates:

( ) an enumeration.

( ) an interleaving.

( ) an offset.

Question 7 – Note that the excerpt below was transcribed without the commas. Rewrite it in the space provided, placing them:

"In Israel on the other hand, he has no power to command."

Question 8 – In the segment “In France, for example, he is responsible for national defense […]”, the first comma separates:

( ) a bet.

( ) an adverbial adjunct.

( ) an adnominal adjunct.

Question 9 – In the fragment "This is actually up to the prime minister.", the comma indicates an expression that expresses:

( ) an emphasis.

( ) a restriction.

( ) a correction.

Per Denyse Lage Fonseca

Graduated in Languages ​​and specialist in distance education.

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