Q&A - PSLE English

[Mum1113]

Hi, please help with the following please…


Qn. She asked if I would be going for the trip.
Ans. She asked “ _________________________

Is this acceptable Ans: She asked “ Are you going for the trip?”


Qn. My grandmother instructed me to retun the library books tomorrow.
Ans __________________ by _________________________________

Is this acceptable Ans: My grandmother instructed me to return the library books by tomorrow.



Qn. Alice was very upset with her disappointing results. She did not play with us.
Ans. ____________________________ too ___________________________.

Is this acceptable Ans: Alice was too upset with her results so she did not play with us.


Qn. The medicine can be sold here only if the health authority permits it.
Ans. Without ______________________________________________

Is this acceptable Ans: Without the permit of the health authority, the medicine cannot be sold here.

MTIA !

[XXXX]

Mum1113:

Hi, please help with the following please..


Qn. She asked if I would be going for the trip.
Ans. She asked \"Will you be going on the trip?\"
Is this acceptable Ans: She asked “ Are you going for the trip?”


Qn. My grandmother instructed me to retun the library books tomorrow.
Ans I was instructed by my grandmother to return the books tomorrow.

Is this acceptable Ans: My grandmother instructed me to return the library books by tomorrow.



Qn. Alice was very upset with her disappointing results. She did not play with us.
Ans. Alice was too upset with her disappointing results to play with us.

Is this acceptable Ans: Alice was too upset with her results so she did not play with us.

This is not quite right, IMO:
- too _something_ to - is better than too _something_ so

Qn. The medicine can be sold here only if the health authority permits it.
Ans. Without the health authority's permission, the medicine cannot be sold here.

Is this acceptable Ans: Without the permit of the health authority, the medicine cannot be sold here.

MTIA !

HTH, as always there is room for negotiation!

[iRabbit]

firefly38:

FQW:

Sentence structure.


1. The books were read by them with interest.

Or

2. The books were read wih interest by them.

Which sentence is better or are they the same? Tq.

\"With interest\" is a post-modifier of the verb \"read\".. It tells readers how the books have been read (by the noun 'them', in this case).. So, \"with interest\" should come immediately after the verb \"read\", which it describes..

Post-modifiers of verbs function like adverbs.. They describe the verbs. Drawing a simple example from adverbs to illustrate :

1. The songs were sung by the school Choir beautifully.

2. The songs were sung beautifully by the school Choir.

Which one is better / correct ? smile:

Understood and thanks for the clear explanation.

[Mum1113]

XXXX:

Mum1113:

Hi, please hel


HTH, as always there is room for negotiation!

Thanks

[trileets]

Could I find out the answers to these


1. Most of the rice that we eat ____ from Thailand
(A) come. (B) came. comes. (D) coming

2. You ought to ________ the loss of your wallet to the police the day it occurred.
(A) report. (B) have report. be reported. (D) have reported


Tia.

[XXXX]

trileets:

Could I find out the answers to these


1. Most of the rice that we eat ____ from Thailand
(A) come. (B) came. (C) comes. (D) coming

2. You ought to ________ the loss of your wallet to the police the day it occurred.
(A) report. (B) have report. (C) be reported. (D) have reported


Tia.

1. (C)
2. (D)

Nothing controversial here, I hope.

[Verysuperkiasu]

That was the first time Eunice felt the floor _______ when an earthquake hit the place.


(1)move
(2)moved
(3)had moved
(4) was moving

dd’s answer (1). Answer key : (3)

[trileets]

XXXX:

trileets:

Could I find out the answers to these


1. Most of the rice that we eat ____ from Thailand
(A) come. (B) came. (C) comes. (D) coming

2. You ought to ________ the loss of your wallet to the police the day it occurred.
(A) report. (B) have report. (C) be reported. (D) have reported


Tia.

1. (C)
2. (D)

Nothing controversial here, I hope.

My ds gave the 2 ans above but
Copied corrections as (B) (A) . Wonder why and hope they weren't copied wrongly. Thanks anyway.

[XXXX]

trileets:

XXXX:

[quote=\"trileets\"]Could I find out the answers to these


1. Most of the rice that we eat ____ from Thailand
(A) come. (B) came. (C) comes. (D) coming

2. You ought to ________ the loss of your wallet to the police the day it occurred.
(A) report. (B) have report. (C) be reported. (D) have reported


Tia.

1. (C)
2. (D)



Nothing controversial here, I hope.

My ds gave the 2 ans above but
Copied corrections as (B) (A) . Wonder why and hope they weren't copied wrongly. Thanks anyway.[/quote]Wow. I think I should stop opining on questions of English [as tested in Singapore]!

1. (B) For \"came\" to be correct I'd expect to see matching past tense:
e.g. most of the rice we ate [while on holiday in Australia] came from Thailand.

As it is, the question implies a present continuous tense, hence I prefer \"comes\". If they are saying \"came\" is correct because the rice was imported some time ago, then they are being pedantic in the extreme. In any case, the importation didn't happen once, it is continuous; and you routinely expect to find rice that \"comes from Thailand\".

2. (A) for \"report\" to be correct, the tense should match - i.e. I'd expect to see \"occurs\" at the end. Also \"report\" would be a general guideline, rather than a comment on a specific event... But they use \"occurred\" which is past tense, implying it actually happened, and hence \"have reported\" matches as something \"you should have done\".

This takes far too long, I'm bowing out of English.

[HFPMAT]

pl help me in this…sentence transformation.

1. After graduating from college, he had not met Tom.
is the ans…
He had not met Tom since he had had graduated from college.
is correct???