Our attention, again, is focused on a very important punctuation mark in the studies we carry out about the language we speak. Therefore, the more we expand our knowledge not only about this little friend of ours, the comma, but also regarding many other subjects, we feel more apt, capable to make that ten-point essay, don't we?
So how about we find out where she is? For this, nothing better than starting talking about prayers substantive subordinates.
As we already know them, it only takes a brief review to know that:
Only in the substantive subordinate clausespositive is that we can find the comma or the colon (:). Let's take an example?
I would like to tell you something important: that I admire her a lot.
It was not that difficult, since the clause that is underlined is classified as a subordinate appositional noun.
Ah! We made one more discovery, this time we found that it is present in the subordinate clauses explanatory adjectives, as shown in the example below:
Mauritius de Sousa, who is a famous cartoonist, is creator of the “Turma da Mônica”.
Well, what is highlighted is the subordinate clause adjectival explanatory.
And the adverbials?
Note that it is not mandatory to use a comma in adverbial subordinate clauses, but always is good be present between them (subordinates) and the principal:
We started to present the work, as soon as the teacher made the call.
According to our knowledge, the clause that is not underlined represents the temporal adverbial subordinate.
The first, once highlighted, is classified as the main clause.
But pay attention! It is not always correct to use the comma in all circumstances, do you know why?
See, if the subordinate clause appears after the main clause, the use of a comma becomes unnecessary. Let's check it out?
I like to study a lotto get good results in the evaluations.
Here, the main clause is also highlighted, while the final subordinate adverbial clause is not.
Take the opportunity to check out our video lesson related to the subject:
