Q&A - PSLE English

[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.\"

[meimeitan]

Hi


How about the followings:

(1) My mother reported the matter to the police. My aunt did not report it.
It ________________________________________________________

(2) The boy took some money from the drawer. His mother walked in.
No sooner __________________________________________________

Thanks.

[anneshirleygilbert]

Would appreciate if somebody can help me with this S&T question:


Question : "Did you eat my cake?" Jane asked Tom.

Should it be (1) : Jane asked Tom if he had eaten her cake.
Or should it be (2) : Jane asked Tom if he ate her cake.

Thank you.

[meimeitan]

The correct one should be answer one.

[Kloggy]

Need some help in the following S&T


1. Everyone was given a free goodie bag at the opening ceremony except Jason.
All _______________________________________

Correct answer is :All but Jason were given free goodie bags at the opening ceremony.

Is the following acceptable ?
All but Jason were given a free goodie bag at the opening ceremony.

2. I did not realise how difficult the course was. That was why I signed up.
Had ________________

Ans given : Had I realised how difficult the course was, I would not have signed up for it.

Qn : is the 'for it' at the end needed ? Can the answer just be :
Had I realised how difficult the course was, I would not have signed up.

3. The children were amazed. The magician pulled a rabbit out of an empty hat.
_____________________ much to __________________

My qn here is on punctuation. In the following answer, if the comma was omitted, is it still grammatically correct :

The magician pulled a rabbit out of an empty hat, much to the children's amazement.


Thanks in advance.

[jamestancx997]

1. It is acceptable but not the best answer, because of ambiguity. It could also be taken to mean all of them were given just one goodie bag, without the word "each" at the end of the phrase. Since you don’t need to stretch it so far from the original, just pluralize "goodie bags".


2. Acceptable. "Sign up" is terminology in common parlance. No reason why "for it" should be absolutely compulsory.

3. For clarity of clausal separation a comma is strongly recommended.

[ridcully]

meimeitan:

(1) My mother reported the matter to the police. My aunt did not report it.

It ________________________________________________________

(2) The boy took some money from the drawer. His mother walked in.
No sooner __________________________________________________

(1) It was my mother who reported the matter to the police, not my aunt.
(2) No sooner had the boy taken some money from the drawer than his mother walked in

Rgds
R

[ridcully]

anneshirleygilbert:

Question : \"Did you eat my cake?\" Jane asked Tom.


Should it be (1) : Jane asked Tom if he had eaten her cake.
Or should it be (2) : Jane asked Tom if he ate her cake.

Answer is (1).

Normally when we rewrite from direct to indirect speech, we push the verb one step into the past. Thus:

If direct speech is in the present tense, then indirect speech becomes past simple.
If direct speech is in the past simple, then indirect speech becomes past perfect.
If direct speech is in the past perfect, then indirect speech remains past perfect because we cannot push back further.

Rgds
R