Portuguese activity, focused on eighth grade students, explores punctuation marks. Let's analyze them in the text about the Giant squid? To do this, answer the proposed questions!
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The giant squid can reach 18 meters in length and weigh 500 kilograms. She inhabits the Atlantic Ocean and her eyes are the size of soccer balls. Each of its ten tentacles measures over 10 meters in length! Good thing she lives at the bottom of the sea isn't it Ah, she's the favorite food of sperm whales. It is not easy to see a giant squid, but even so they are believed to be numerous animals in the deep regions, as sperm whales need to feed on many squids a day.
Marcelo Duarte.
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Question 1 - Watch:
“The giant squid can reach 18 meters in length and weigh 500 kilograms.”
Does the endpoint end a simple period or a compound period? Explain:
Question 2 – The exclamation point was used after, “Each of its ten tentacles measures more than 10 meters in length!”, to express in relation to the fact the feeling of:
( ) fear.
( ) happiness.
( ) admiration.
Question 3 – The excerpt below was transcribed without the punctuation mark at the end. Put it:
“It’s a good thing she lives at the bottom of the sea, isn’t it”
Question 4 – In the segment “It’s not easy to see a giant squid, but still […]”, the comma before “but” is:
( ) prohibited.
( ) optional.
( ) mandatory.
Question 5 - In “[…] numerous animals in the deep regions, since sperm whales need to feed on many squids a day.”, the comma separates a sentence that expresses:
( ) cause.
( ) condition.
( ) consequence.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Letters and specialist in distance education.
