Portuguese activity: Uses of commas

Portuguese activity, aimed at students in the eighth grade of elementary school, addresses the comma. Let's look at the uses of this punctuation mark in the text "perfect" work? To do so, answer the proposed questions! In the passage “[…] it houses canaries, tuins and sparrows.”, does the comma indicate an omission, an intercalation or an enumeration?

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"perfect" work

With moist clay and manure mixed with straw, the earthen bird creates a nest in the shape of an oven, with walls of up to four centimeters. The process lasts about 18 days in the rainy season and approximately 30 days in the dry season.

In addition to the rigid structure, the engineering takes into account thermal protection, because in cold environments, in the southern regions of the country, the nests have thicker walls.

The female barn owl lays three to four eggs in the “house” built by the couple, which also shelters canaries, tuins and sparrows.

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Questions

Question 1 – The following excerpt has been transcribed without the comma. Put it:

“With moist clay and manure mixed with straw, the earthen bird creates a nest in the shape of an oven […]”

Question 2 – In the above passage, the comma was used to indicate:

( ) one correction

( ) one explanation.

( ) a displacement.

Question 3 – In the segment “[…] engineering takes thermal protection into account, because in cold environments […]”, the comma is:

( ) prohibited.

( ) optional.

( ) mandatory.

Question 4 – In the part “[…] in cold environments, in the southern regions of the country, the nests have thicker walls.”, the commas separate:

( ) a bet.

( ) a vocative.

( ) an adverbial adjunct.

Question 5 – In the passage “[…] it houses canaries, tuins and sparrows.”, the comma indicates:

( ) an omission.

( ) an interleave.

( ) an enumeration.

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