Portuguese activity, focused on ninth grade students, explores the comma. Are we going to look at various uses of this punctuation mark? Then answer the questions based on the text. A tour of Rimbaud!
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It was October 20, 1854 when Vitalie Rimbaud, a fervent Catholic, gave birth to her second child, whom she would christen Jean-Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud. The boy, who would become known simply as Arthur Rimbaud, was born in an unpoetic way, in the city of Charleville, in the French Ardennes, more precisely on Rue Napoleón, number 12.
Currently, in the hometown of the author of
a season in hellThere is a beautiful museum named after her. The Rimbaud Museum is located in the old mill of Charleville, a beautiful and elegant building erected in 1626 and renovated in 1896 by the architect Petitfils, who redistributed its interior spaces. The site presents the life and work of Arthur Rimbaud through manuscripts, personal objects, photos and documents. […]Available in: .
Question 1 - In the excerpt “[…] Vitalie Rimbaud, a fervent Catholic, […]”, the commas indicate:
( ) a bet
( ) a vocative
( ) a predicative
Question 2 - In “[…] gave birth to her second child, whom she would baptize […]”, the comma precedes:
( ) a relative pronoun that takes up “your second child”.
( ) a personal pronoun that takes up “your second child”.
( ) an indefinite pronoun that takes up “his second son”.
Question 3 - In the part “[…] was born in an unpoetic way, in the city of Charleville, in the French Ardennes, more precisely on Rue Napoleón, number 12.”, the commas separate:
( ) adverbial adjuncts of middle.
( ) adverbial adjuncts of place.
( ) adverbial tense adjuncts.
Question 4 – This passage was transcribed without a comma. Put it on:
“The Rimbaud Museum is located in the old mill of Charleville a beautiful and elegant […]”
Question 5 - At the end of the text, the commas indicate:
( ) the enumeration of alternating elements.
( ) the enumeration of contrasting elements.
( ) the enumeration of elements that are correlated.
Per Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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