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www0935
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 Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2009 12:52 am Post subject: Please help check out the answers. |
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Please help me with the following questions.
1. __________, I watched TV at home instead of walking my dog.
(A) It being bad (B) The weather was bad
(C) Being exhausting (D) No knowing what to do
2. This kind of thing, __________, will cause a huge disaster.
(A) taken place in crowding places
(B) happened in crowded places
(C) happening in crowded places
(D) it has happened in crowded places
3. Seeing my brother biting his fingernail, my mother scolded him with her arms __________.
(A) folding (B) be crossed (C) crossing (D) folded
The original answers to the above questions are (C), (B), (C) respectively, but I think the answers should be (A), (C), (D).
Please help me out. Thanks a lot. |
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peterteacher
Joined: 13 Apr 2009
Posts: 86
Location: Australia
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| Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2009 7:31 am Post subject: Re: Please help check out the answers. |
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| www0935 wrote: |
Please help me with the following questions.
1. __________, I watched TV at home instead of walking my dog.
(A) It being bad (B) The weather was bad
(C) Being exhausting (D) No knowing what to do
2. This kind of thing, __________, will cause a huge disaster.
(A) taken place in crowding places
(B) happened in crowded places
(C) happening in crowded places
(D) it has happened in crowded places
3. Seeing my brother biting his fingernail, my mother scolded him with her arms __________.
(A) folding (B) be crossed (C) crossing (D) folded
The original answers to the above questions are (C), (B), (C) respectively, but I think the answers should be (A), (C), (D).
Please help me out. Thanks a lot. |
The best answers are:
1 -> C or D (actually, there are no good answers provided!)
2 -> C
3 -> D (definitely NOT C!)
For number 1, C could work but it still doesn't make a very good sentence. If you say "Being exhausting, I watched TV at home instead of walking my dog" it feels like watching TV could be exhausting!
The sentence would be better like this:
"Walking my dog being too exhausting, I watched TV at home instead."
or
"Being exhausted, I watched TV at home instead of walking my dog."
If you choose B for number 1, you should add "so" to the sentence like this:
"The weather was bad so I watched TV at home instead of walking my dog."
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dragn
Joined: 17 Feb 2009
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1. __________, I watched TV at home instead of walking my dog.
(A) It being bad
(B) The weather was bad
(C) Being exhausting
(D) No knowing what to do |
So, the answer is supposed to be C, but you think it should be A? Well, I have good news and bad news. The good news is that their answer (Being exhausting) is 100 percent wrong. The bad news is that it's tough to consider your answer (It being bad) as being correct. It doesn't violate any grammar rules, but it's simply not clear enough to be considered a good answer. There really is no good answer here. If the intended answer is C, it has to be Being exhausted, not exhausting. The adjective exhausting must apply to the subject immediately following the adverbial phrase, which is the speaker I. If the speaker is exhausting, he or she exhausts others. I will leave the interpretation of that to your imagination. 
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2. This kind of thing, __________, will cause a huge disaster.
(A) taken place in crowding places
(B) happened in crowded places
(C) happening in crowded places
(D) it has happened in crowded places |
They say B, you say C? Break out the champagne!  You nailed it: their answer is wrong, you're right. Good job! I don't know where you live, but I can tell you this is a typical Chinese-English mistake. Using the p.p. happened makes it sound as though this kind of thing can be happened. It is not possible in the English language to happen something; rather, something just happens. Happen is intransitive.
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3. Seeing my brother biting his fingernail, my mother scolded him with her arms __________.
(A) folding
(B) be crossed
(C) crossing
(D) folded |
They say C, you say D? Don't put the cork back in that champagne bottle just yet: they're wrong again, and you're right. Good work! The grammar of their answer (crossing) seems to make sense on the surface, but we simply don't say it that way. It's wrong. Folded is the only usable answer, and is quite reasonable. It means the same as crossed, which would probably be the most common answer in reality. Unfortunately, it's not listed.
Greg
P.S. Sorry Peter; you beat me to the punch! |
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