Questão
ID 3167165Disciplina: Língua Inglesa
Assunto: Pontuação | Punctuation
Ano: 2025 Banca: VUNESP - Fundação para o Vestibular da Universidade Estadual Paulista Órgão: Universidade Estadual Paulista
Leia o texto e responda às questões de 28 a 30:
Read the three quotations; the first two, by English teachers from the Ivory Coast and Brazil; the third, by an Iraqi learner in a mixed-nationality reading class.
“It’s a very lively book, but the exercises are about unusual things for our country. We are a hot country and also have many Muslims. The exercises are about snow, ice, cold mornings, and making wine. I can tell you I can’t do making wine in my country!”
“Previous materials were not based on life in Brazil which is why I don’t think they worked very well …”
“Sir … what is opera?”
(David Jolly and Rod Bolitho. A framework for materials writing. In: Brian Tomlinson (ed). Material Development in Language Teaching. Cambridge: CUP. 1998/2001. Adaptado)
Punctuation marks are considered a part of grammar and there are rules for how to use them properly. In certain language situations, differences in punctuation can interfere in meaning. Despite differences in the use of the comma, the two sentences have the same meaning in alternative: