Portuguese activity, focused on ninth grade students, addresses the comma. How about learning different situations of using this punctuation mark? To do so, answer the questions based on the text about the city of "Brumadinho", which has natural beauty, historical and cultural wealth. Learn more about this city in Minas Gerais and, of course, study the comma!
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Located in the Paraopeba Valley, Brumadinho has natural beauty, historical and cultural richness. With a population of 35 thousand inhabitants, the city has an area of 634.4 km² and is located at the end of Maciço do Espinhaço and beginning of Tabuleiro do Oeste. It began to be colonized when the “insubmissives” of the Emboabas War headed there, fleeing repression, in order to mine for gold, free from the high tributes of the Crown. Along with the parish of Bonfim do Paraopeba, the municipalities of Matheus Leme and Piedade do Paraopeba were also created by Regente Feijó in 1832. The district was created in 1923 and emancipated in 1938, dismembering from Bonfim, joining the Metropolitan Region of Belo Horizonte. Since its creation, Instituto Inhotim has established multidimensional relationships with the city […]
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Question 1 - The beginning of the text was transcribed without a comma. Identify the alternative in which the scoring was done correctly:
( ) “Located in the Paraopeba Valley, Brumadinho has natural beauty […]”
( ) “Located in the Paraopeba Brumadinho Valley, it has natural beauty […]”
( ) “Located in the Paraopeba Valley, Brumadinho, it has natural beauty […]”
Question 2 - In “With a population of 35,000, the city has […]”, the comma indicates:
( ) an omission
( ) an interleaving
( ) a displacement
Question 3 - In the passage “[…] went there, fleeing from repression […]”, the comma precedes:
( ) an infinitive verb.
( ) a verb in the gerund.
( ) a verb in the participle.
Question 4 – In the excerpt “[…] fleeing repression in order to mine […]”, the comma precedes:
( ) a conjunctive phrase that expresses purpose.
( ) an adverbial phrase that expresses purpose.
( ) a prepositional phrase that expresses purpose.
Question 5 - At the end of the text, the comma isolates an adverbial adjunct:
( ) of place
( ) of time
( ) of intensity
Per Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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