Q&A - PSLE English

[CayennePepper]

Mdm Koh:

CayennePepper:

Hi all

I have a question about quoting sentences, for comprehension questions such as: Which sentences tells us...?

How do we quote? Can we just write the relevant sentence as the answer? Are quotation marks needed?

E.g. Ans:
1- They urged her not to quit.
2- \"They urged her not to quit.\"
3- The sentence is \"They urged her not to quit.\"
4- The sentence is \"They urged her not to quit\".
For (3) and (4), where should the full stop be placed? After the ending quotation mark or before?? :scratchhead:

Much thanks in advance!

Quotation marks are needed. You also need a comma after the word \"is\". The full-stop can be placed before the quotation mark or after. It's a matter of style.

:thankyou: for your response, Mdm Koh.
Is it acceptable to just answer with the quoted sentence enclosed within quotation marks, without prefacing with: The sentence is, ...
E.g. \"They urged her not to quit.\"
It would be so much simpler; fewer chances of punctuation errors!

[Mdm Koh]

CayennePepper:

Mdm Koh:

[quote=\"CayennePepper\"]Hi all

I have a question about quoting sentences, for comprehension questions such as: Which sentences tells us...?

How do we quote? Can we just write the relevant sentence as the answer? Are quotation marks needed?

E.g. Ans:
1- They urged her not to quit.
2- \"They urged her not to quit.\"
3- The sentence is \"They urged her not to quit.\"
4- The sentence is \"They urged her not to quit\".
For (3) and (4), where should the full stop be placed? After the ending quotation mark or before?? :scratchhead:

Much thanks in advance!

Quotation marks are needed. You also need a comma after the word \"is\". The full-stop can be placed before the quotation mark or after. It's a matter of style.

:thankyou: for your response, Mdm Koh.
Is it acceptable to just answer with the quoted sentence enclosed within quotation marks, without prefacing with: The sentence is, ...
E.g. \"They urged her not to quit.\"
It would be so much simpler; fewer chances of punctuation errors![/quote]It's not advisable as the answer is not complete. The students have been taught in school that they must begin their answers with \"The word is...\", \"The phrase is...\" and \"The sentence is....\"

I've seen an exam paper where the school teacher gave the student zero because the phrases were left out, despite the fact that she had written down the correct quotes.

[CayennePepper]

Thank you again, Mdm Koh! Really appreciate your help on this. I'm shocked that my nephew has never been told this by his teachers! :skeptical:

[struggling]

leexue_dwx:

Synthesis:


Regardless of the cost, I am buying this latest mobile phone in the market.
It has had lots of advertisements on it.

Answer A,
Regardless of the cost, I am buying this latest mobile phone in the market which has had lots of advertisements on it.

Answer B,
Regardless of the cost, I am buying this latest mobile phone which has had lots of advertisements on it in the market.

Any parent can tell me which one is correct and why?


Thanks a lot.

For this, the correct answer is A.

This is because the original sentence talks about the mobile phone in the market, but not that the ads are everywhere 'in the market'. So the phrase 'in the market' should be directly linked back to the mobile phone.

Hope this helps!

[mumworks]

Hi


Anyone can help to answer the following questions with some explanations ?

(1) May I know what is the difference between "died of old age" and "died from old age" ?

(2) The bush fire (spread or spreads) quickly due to the high temperature.

(3) Among all the designers, Celine is the only one who (come or has come) up with the new designer pieces every other month.

(4) The committee members (decided or has decided or have decided) to make Mr Lee the next Chairman of the Greenland Club two months ago.

(5) All the windows rattle. The wind blows.
Answer : (a) or (b)
(a) When the wind blows, all the windows rattle.
Or
(b) When the wind blows, all the windows rattled.

(6) The chairman of the debate competition advised the two teams to speak (loud/loudly/louder/ more loudly) in the finals as the audience gave feedback that the debaters did not speak loud enough in the semi finals.


Thank you very much in advance.

[tianzhu]

mumworks:

(4) The committee members (decided or has decided or have decided) to make Mr Lee the next Chairman of the Greenland Club two months ago.

Hi

We use the simple past tense for an event or action which occurred in the past and is finished at the time of speaking.

This video may be useful.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF2jRfFe82Y&feature=related

I’d go for this answer.

The committee members decided to make Mr Lee the next Chairman of the Greenland Club two months ago.

Best wishes

[tianzhu]

mumworks:

(2) The bush fire (spread or spreads) quickly due to the high temperature.

(3) Among all the designers, Celine is the only one who (come or has come) up with the new designer pieces every other month.

(5) All the windows rattle. The wind blows.
Answer : (a) or (b)
(a) When the wind blows, all the windows rattle.
Or
(b) When the wind blows, all the windows rattled.

Hi

Let me give it a try.

(2) The bush fire spreads quickly due to the high temperature.

(3) Among all the designers, Celine is the only one who has come up with the new designer pieces every other month.

(5) All the windows rattle. The wind blows.
(a) When the wind blows, all the windows rattle.

Best wishes

[tianzhu]

mumworks:

Hi


Anyone can help to answer the following questions with some explanations ?

(1) May I know what is the difference between \"died of old age\" and \"died from old age\" ?

(6) The chairman of the debate competition advised the two teams to speak (loud/loudly/louder/ more loudly) in the finals as the audience gave feedback that the debaters did not speak loud enough in the semi finals.

Hi

Let me try.

(1) I think we usually say “died of old age”.

(5) An adjective modifies a noun or pronoun.
loud, louder

An adverb modifies or describes a verb, an adjective or another adverb.
loudly, more loudly

Watch this video to find out more about adjectives and adverbs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HPKwhngB-U&feature=related

I’d more inclined to go for “more loudly”.

The chairman of the debate competition advised the two teams to speak more loudly in the finals as the audience gave feedback that the debaters did not speak loud enough in the semi finals.

Best wishes

[mumworks]

Thank you very much Tian Zhu for helping parents in all EMS subjects.


You are very kind and always willing to share your knowledge and help others in need.

:salute:

[mumworks]

Hi


Any good English assessment books, websites or tutor to recommend ?

Areas weak in are S&T, cloze passage, grammar, vocab, compre.

Are the answers found in English assessment books and top English exam papers reliable and are there books with explanations not just the answers ?

Thank you.