Portuguese Activity: Use of comma

Portuguese activity, suitable for eighth grade students, explores the comma. Do you have questions? Yea? So, answer the questions based on the news It's never-ending water! This way, you will better understand the different functions performed by this punctuation mark!

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It's never-ending water

Preliminary data released by researchers from the Federal University of Pará (UFPA) pointed to the Alter do Chão Aquifer as the largest deposit of drinking water on the planet. With an estimated volume of 86 000 cubic kilometers of fresh water, the underground reserve is located under the states of Amazonas, Pará and Amapá. “This amount of water would be enough to supply the world population for 500 years”, says Milton Matta, geologist at UFPA. In comparative terms, Alter do Chão has almost twice the volume of water in the Guarani Aquifer (with 45,000 cubic kilometers). Until then, Guarani was the largest underground reserve in the world, spread across Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay.

“Época” magazine. n. 623, April 26, 2010.

Questions

Question 1 - In the passage “With an estimated volume of 86 000 cubic kilometers of fresh water, the underground reserve […]”, the comma indicates:

( ) the separation of coordinated clauses.

( ) the insertion of an explanation.

( ) the inversion in the order of the constituents of the sentence.

Question 2 - In the excerpt “[…] says Milton Matta, geologist at UFPA.”, the comma separates:

( ) a bet

( ) a vocative

( ) a predicative of the subject

Question 3 - In the sentence “Until then, Guarani was the largest underground reserve in the world […]”, the adverbial adjunct, separated by a comma, expresses:

( ) place

( ) time

( ) intensity

Question 4 – In the fragment “[…] distributed by Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay.”, the commas indicate the enumeration of:

( ) coordinated prayers.

( ) adverbial adjuncts of place.

( ) correlated terms.

Question 5 - Identify another fragment, where the comma performs the function marked above:

A.

By Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages ​​and specialist in distance education.

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