Q&A - PSLE English

[meimeitan]

Hi


Here got one more question.

He would only free the captive after he had seen the money.
Not until __________________________________________.

Thanks.

[ridcully]

meimeitan:

He would only free the captive after he had seen the money.

Not until __________________________________________.

Not until he had seen the money would he free the captive.

Rgds
R

[meimeitan]

Hi Ridcully


Can the answer be like that:

Not until he had seen the money, he would not free the captive.

[ridcully]

meimeitan:

Can the answer be like that:


Not until he had seen the money, he would not free the captive.

If you use double-negatives, you will tie yourself in knots...

Your two 'nots' cancel each other out and make your main clause positive. In effect, you are saying the nonsensical:
Until he had seen the money, he would free the captive.

You can write:
Until he had seen the money, he would not free the captive.
He would not free the captive until he had seen the money.

Rgds
R

[carebear]

Mother screamed at my brother and ____ when she saw us fighting for the third time.


My answer is "I", but the school teacher marked my DD’s answer, "me" as correct.

Is it I or me ?

TIA.

[ridcully]

carebear:

Mother screamed at my brother and ____ when she saw us fighting for the third time.


My answer is \"I\", but the school teacher marked my DD's answer, \"me\" as correct.

Is it I or me ?

TIA.

Need to use the object pronoun 'me' because the person referred to is on the receiving end of being screamed at.

Compare:

Mother and I screamed at my brother.

Here, it is the mother and the person referred to doing the screaming; thus, the subject pronoun 'I' is used.

Rgds
R

[meimeitan]

Hi Ridcully


Many thanks

[Mdm Koh]

carebear:

Mother screamed at my brother and ____ when she saw us fighting for the third time.


My answer is \"I\", but the school teacher marked my DD's answer, \"me\" as correct.

Is it I or me ?

TIA.

To add on to ridcully's reply, another helpful tip is that you'll know the answer is \"I\" when you can leave out the first part of the sentence, and the sentence will still make sense.

For example, \"My mother and ____ went to the market\".

The answer is \"I\" because \"I went to the market\" makes perfect sense.

Another example, \"Mother screamed when she saw that my sister and ______ had bought an iPhone without her permission\".

The answer is also \"I\" because \"I had bought an iPhone without her permission\" is grammatically correct.

You can test it out for other sentences. All the sentences with \"I\" will make sense when you omit the first part. If it doesn't make sense, the answer is \"me\".

Hope this helps.

[Vanilla Cake]

Thanks in advance for your time and effort to provide answer for this P6 English question from Nan Hua Primary School 2009 P6 CA1 Paper 2 Q69:


Alice searched frantically. She seemed to have lost something.
As though ____________________________________________.

Answer given: As though she have lost something, Alice searched frantically.

Is the above answer given correct? If not, what should be the correct answer?

[Mdm Koh]

Vanilla Cake:

Thanks in advance for your time and effort to provide answer for this P6 English question from Nan Hua Primary School 2009 P6 CA1 Paper 2 Q69:


Alice searched frantically. She seemed to have lost something.
As though ____________________________________________.

Answer given: As though she have lost something, Alice searched frantically.

Is the above answer given correct? If not, what should be the correct answer?

\"As though she have\" is definitely wrong, because \"she\" is always accompanied by either a singular or past tense verb. We don't say \"she have\".

The answer should be \"As though she had lost something, Alice searched frantically.\"