Practice question

In the sentence 'Os dados, segundo a torre, estavam corretos', what is the syntactic and punctuational role of the segment 'segundo a torre'?

  1. An intercalated adjunct indicating the source of the information, obligatorily set off by paired commas
  2. The direct object of the verb 'estavam'
  3. A vocative addressing the tower directly
  4. An appositive that renames the noun 'dados' and could omit the commas

Answer: A — An intercalated adjunct indicating the source of the information, obligatorily set off by paired commas

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