Q&A - PSLE English

[mrswongtuition]

Lynn2:

Can someone pls help me with this?


Siva and kumar handcuffed the buglar,Siva and kumar were plainclothes policemen.

The plainclothes policemen.........

Wonder is this answer as below acceptable?

The plainclothes policemen who handcuffed the burglar were Siva and Kumar.


Thanks and good day.

Siva and Kumar hancuffed the burglar. Siva and Kumar were plainclothes policemen.
The plainclothes policemen, Siva and Kumar, handcuffed the blurglar.

Forgot to mention, your answer is also acceptable.

The plainclothes policemen who handcuffed the burglar were Siva and Kumar.

[Lynn2]

Hi Mrs Wong,

Thanks.DD wrote her answer and was marked wrong cos it did not conform with the English teacher.

DD is very unhappy as she feels that she is right.Thanks for the answer and she is happy now.


rgds
Lynn2

mrswongtuition:

Lynn2:

Can someone pls help me with this?

Siva and kumar handcuffed the buglar,Siva and kumar were plainclothes policemen.

The plainclothes policemen.........

Wonder is this answer as below acceptable?

The plainclothes policemen who handcuffed the burglar were Siva and Kumar.


Thanks and good day.

Siva and Kumar hancuffed the burglar. Siva and Kumar were plainclothes policemen.
The plainclothes policemen, Siva and Kumar, handcuffed the blurglar.

Forgot to mention, your answer is also acceptable.

The plainclothes policemen who handcuffed the burglar were Siva and Kumar.

[mrswongtuition]

This is what I always tell my students:

English is ALIVE!
There are grammar RULES, but there are also EXCEPTIONS!

Sometimes the school teacher has to mark so many scripts, it's also difficult for her to read each answer carefully to determine if it is right. Most of the time, they follow a 'standard answer'.

Tell your girl not to feel bad. If she feels that she is right, she should approach the teacher to clarify why her answer is wrong (is it a grammatical mistake?).

Lynn2:

Hi Mrs Wong,
Thanks.DD wrote her answer and was marked wrong cos it did not conform with the English teacher.

DD is very unhappy as she feels that she is right.Thanks for the answer and she is happy now.


rgds
Lynn2

mrswongtuition:

[quote=\"Lynn2\"]Can someone pls help me with this?

Siva and kumar handcuffed the buglar,Siva and kumar were plainclothes policemen.

The plainclothes policemen.........

Wonder is this answer as below acceptable?

The plainclothes policemen who handcuffed the burglar were Siva and Kumar.


Thanks and good day.

Siva and Kumar hancuffed the burglar. Siva and Kumar were plainclothes policemen.
The plainclothes policemen, Siva and Kumar, handcuffed the blurglar.

Forgot to mention, your answer is also acceptable.

The plainclothes policemen who handcuffed the burglar were Siva and Kumar.

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[meimeitan]

Hi


Anyone can help the following S & T questions?

Julie is the best defender in the netball team.
No one ______________________________

Sally did not bring her umbrella. She was caught in the rain.
Had ________________________________

Thanks.

[Lynn2]

Well said, Mrs Wong.Am going to show this text to DD.


I did ask dd to question her english teacher.She says its ok, dont have to.

There are also some close passage that dd wrote, its the correct answer, and teacher only takes standard answer.

No teacher is perfect.Anyway, we just have to depend on ourself.As it is, English is alive.

Thanks, Mrs Wong.


cheers
Lynn2







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[mrswongtuition]

meimeitan:

Julie is the best defender in the netball team.
No one ______________________________

No one in the netball team is a better defender than Julie.

meimeitan:

Sally did not bring her umbrella. She was caught in the rain.
Had ________________________________

Had Sally brought her umbrella, she would not have been caught in the rain.

[meimeitan]

Hi Mrs Wong


Thanks.

[meimeitan]

Ah! Mrs Wong


Suddenly think of conditional clause for the second question.

Should the answer be "Had Sally brought her umbrella, she would not have been caught in the rain."

As the thing had happen in the past, should we use the third type of conditional clause to regret what she had not done?

[Mum1113]

Lynn2:

Well said, Mrs Wong.Am going to show this text to DD.


I did ask dd to question her english teacher.She says its ok, dont have to.

There are also some close passage that dd wrote, its the correct answer, and teacher only takes standard answer.

No teacher is perfect.Anyway, we just have to depend on ourself.As it is, English is alive.

Thanks, Mrs Wong.


cheers
Lynn2







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This may cause a concern as markers in PSLE papers follow standard answers as there are whole bunch of papers for the markers to mark at National level. Wonder 'human' errors will happen in such major exams ? Any sharing from anyone ?

[mrswongtuition]

meimeitan:

Ah! Mrs Wong


Suddenly think of conditional clause for the second question.

Should the answer be \"Had Sally brought her umbrella, she would not have been caught in the rain.\"

As the thing had happen in the past, should we use the third type of conditional clause to regret what she had not done?

Actually, thinking through, you are right.
My morning brain isn't working!!


Had Sally brought (past perfect) her umbrella, she would not have been caught in the rain (conditional perfect, which is composed of would and the perfect infinitive have been).

This is a hypothetical sentence, so we need a conditional perfect in one part of the sentence and the past perfect in the other.

The conditional perfect is used to show that something would have happened (effect) if something else had been true (cause).