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I don't know about everyone, but I didn't particularly catch that phrase error. The school board in my province has a certain English exam (OSSLT: Ontario Seconard School Literacy Test), but that doesn't even come CLOSE to these exams that immigrants have to take, such as the TOEFL. The OSSLT is a test grade 10 students officially take nowadays as one of the several means to earning a high-school degree. But the questions on it are as ridiculous as : Quote:
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06-2-2008, 09:50 PM | #2 |
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I think my English teacher talked about something like the sentence in question before. Something about "increased" referring to specific numbers, which makes it inappropriate to describe a situation that doesn't involve concrete values, but rather a concept.
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06-2-2008, 09:50 PM | #3 |
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Uhh... interesting.
And 'The standard of living has increased.' isn't wrong.. It's just a fragment, and not a sentence. And I got c. =D EDIT: Crap, that's right.. increased refers to numbers... Ninja'd anyway.
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Eigo o wakarimasen. gomenasai, demo eigo wa tanoshiku arimasen.
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So both your username and your post makes no sense, your post is in chinese, your avatar has MLK. Very interesting . . . and diverse.
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Arigato, ga kore wa nihongo desu. ^.^
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06-2-2008, 10:18 PM | #9 |
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What I got from that was that you're typing in Japanese.
You welcome and goodnight. ^_^
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英語はわかりません。ごめんなさい。でも、英語は楽しくありません。 Also incorrect. The structure itself is wrong in the standard sense (may be ok in a colloquial fashion). Should be Arigatou. Demo, kore wa nihongo desu. ありがとう。でも、これは日本語です。 or Arigatai kedo, kore wa nihongo desu. ありがたいけど、これは日本語です。 And wow. English, was more complicated than I thought? Wow.
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06-2-2008, 10:56 PM | #11 |
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both structures are acurate in a standard conversational sense...(using ga in the place of demo is actually very common...and using the o instead of wa refers to the actual process rather than the standard english sense of using it as a noun)...but these still would be wrong in a formal sense...you are correct about that. :P (what do you know?...I do speak English!)
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He finally speaks english!
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06-2-2008, 11:36 PM | #13 |
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wo (notice the w, o = お, wo = を) isn't used in that case. wo is used when the subject is about to do something to the referred object. It is also used when looking back at something in a futuristic tense, like when a teacher would go "He won't do his homework."
ga and kedo are replaceable, yes, but kedo is more common. ga is a colloquial short form of desuga. Ask jimerax. I'm very confident in my Japanese knowledge. As seen in my signature. 英語をわからない。is incorrect in any sense of Japanese. 英語はわからない。is correct.
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06-2-2008, 11:38 PM | #14 |
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D. Sounds like the yoda version of english.
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The sentence in the article is correct if one goes by generally accepted spoken English, which is where the problem lies. There is too much of a divergence between written and spoken, and when tests come along, students invariably perform worse due to having practiced much more spoken English.
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Everyone should be able to recognize "Arigato"/"Arigatou" (whichever version it may be) as Japanese...
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I didn't catch that either.
I must fail at English then. The OSSLT was so easy, all you need to do is read the instructions. The majority of people who fail didn't read them carefully. And if you don't pass the first time, well, you have a few years to complete it. ( We need to pass it to graduate high school ) I passed it first time around in grade 10.
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It is most definitely a sentence, as it has a subject and verb which can stand independently. Also, "increased" is quite incorrect, as per the reasoning given in the article. Values increase; standards don't have values. Rather, standards rise. --Guido http://andy.mikee385.com |
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