Portuguese activity, focused on eighth grade students, about punctuation marks. Let's analyze them in the text natural lantern? To do so, answer the proposed questions!
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At night, in the woods, a greenish-yellow light goes on and off. Blink here, there, there… Do you know what it is? Yes, they are the fireflies – the most famous representatives of the animals that emit light! How they do it Thanks to a phenomenon of nature called bioluminescence. Among other living beings that also emit natural light are some fish and even mushrooms! […]
Magazine “Science Today for Children”. Edition 271.
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Question 1 - In the passage “At night, in the woods, a greenish-yellow light turns on and off.”, the commas separate:
( ) bets.
( ) vocatives.
( ) adverbial adjuncts.
Question 2 – In “Blink here, there, there…”, the ellipsis indicates:
( ) the interruption of an idea.
( ) the prolongation of a thought.
( ) the continuity of correlated elements.
Question 3 – In the passage “Yes, they are the fireflies – the most famous representatives of animals that emit light!”, the dash isolates a phrase interspersed with an ending:
( ) explanatory.
( ) comparative.
( ) example.
Question 4 – The sentence “How they do it” was transcribed without the punctuation mark that closes it. Tick this sign:
( ) .
( ) !
( ) ?
Question 5 - The exclamation point was used, after “Among other living beings that also emit natural light are some fish and even mushrooms!”, to indicate in relation to the fact:
( ) the feeling of relief.
( ) the feeling of fear.
( ) the feeling of admiration.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Letters and specialist in distance education.
