Portuguese activity, focused on eighth grade students, about the comma. Let's analyze situations where this punctuation mark is used in the text Thousand Faces of Hydrogen? So, answer the proposed questions! How about putting the comma in the segment “Hydrogen is not found abundant and very reactive element […]”?
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An abundant and highly reactive element, hydrogen is not found chemically free in nature. If burned with pure oxygen, it only generates heat and water. The world production of pure hydrogen is around 70 million tons per year. Production is responsible for around 830 million tons of CO emissions
2. Much of its production comes from transformation, steam, methane, or coal gasification. However, when produced from renewable sources and technologies, such as solar or wind, it becomes a renewable fuel.[…]
“MINAS FAZ CIÊNCIA”, Dec. 2019/Jan/Feb. 2020. p.16. Available in: .
Question 1 - The segment below was transcribed without the comma. Put it on:
“An abundant and very reactive element, hydrogen is not found […]”
Question 2 - In the period "If burned with pure oxygen, it generates, only, heat and water.”, the highlighted word, separated by commas, expresses:
( ) a restriction.
( ) an exclusion.
( ) a correction.
Question 3 - In “Much of its production comes from the transformation, by steam, of methane […]”, the use of the crasis in the expression, separated by commas, is:
( ) prohibited.
( ) optional.
( ) mandatory.
Question 4 – In the excerpt "However, when produced from sources [...]", the comma separates:
( ) an alternative conjunction.
( ) a conclusive conjunction.
( ) an adversative conjunction.
Question 5 - In the passage “[…] renewable technologies, such as solar or wind, become a renewable fuel.”, the commas indicate:
( ) an omission.
( ) an interleaving.
( ) an offset.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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