Portuguese activity: Uses of the comma

Portuguese activity, focused on students in the ninth year of elementary school, explores the comma. Let's analyze the uses of this punctuation mark in the text about the city of Jesuânia? Then answer the proposed questions! In the passage “369 km from Belo Horizonte, the municipality has as main tourist attractions […]”, is the comma prohibited, optional or mandatory?

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Jesuânia

Peaceful city located in the south of Minas Gerais Jesuânia is a typical place for rest and peace. Its inhabitants, around 5,000, are very simple and hospitable, always welcoming visitors with great sympathy.

369 km from Belo Horizonte, the city has as main tourist attractions its beautiful and delicious waterfalls, such as Cachoeira do Sertãozinho and its trails and peaks, which provide a unique panoramic view of the City.

The city center is marked by the Senhor Bom Jesus Church, patron saint of the city, which always receives several tributes during the day of its commemoration.

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Questions

Question 1 - The excerpt below was transcribed without the comma. Put it:

“Peaceful city located in the south of Minas Gerais Jesuânia is a typical place for rest and peace.”

Question 2 – In the segment “Its inhabitants, around 5 thousand, are very simple and hospitable […]”, the commas indicate:

( ) the omission of information.

( ) the enumeration of information.

( ) the interleaving of information.

Question 3 – In the passage “369 km from Belo Horizonte, the municipality has as main tourist attractions […]”, the comma is:

( ) prohibited.

( ) optional.

( ) mandatory.

Question 4 – Identify the text fragment, where the comma precedes an exemplification:

Question 5 - In “The city center is marked by the Senhor Bom Jesus Church, patron saint of the city, which always receives several tributes [...]”, the commas separate:

( ) a bet.

( ) a vocative.

( ) an adverbial adjunct.

By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Letters and specialist in distance education.