answer scheme

At last! I finally published the answer scheme for your previous quiz. I apologize thoroughly for not publishing it earlier. My hands are full nowadays but it shouldn't be an excuse, i know. Anyway, there you go. I hope you're still interested to check your answers and those whom i asked to see me, stop hiding, come to my room immediately. You know who you are!!


PART A

1. “first language” refers to the mother tongue of the speakers or the language that one learns and uses since he or she was born
2. That is because Spanish language and Portuguese language are similar
3. The greater the differences between a speaker’s first language and his or her second language, the more difficult for the speaker to learn the second language
4. Paragraph 4 is about the hardest languages for British diplomats
5. Tabassaran/Caucasian language
6. Hungarian is difficult for the British because it has 35 cases / Hungarian is difficult for the british because of its grammatical complexity
7. That is because different learners have different factors that cause difficulty in learning a second language. While some learners decide a particular language as the most difficult, the others may disagree
8.
a. Connected / related
b. Same / alike / identical
c. Non-native speakers / non-chinese
d. Difficult / complicated / complex
e. Working very hard


PART B

PARTS OF SPEECH

1. Marco Polo - noun
2. City - noun
3. Was – verb
4. Went - verb
5. His - pronoun
6. Them - pronoun
7. Emperor - noun
8. really - adverb
9. diplomatic - adjective
10. important - adjective
11. between – preposition
12. in - preposition
13. down - adverb
14. specifically - adverb
15. farming – noun / gerund
16. of - preposition
17. to - preposition
18. very - adverb
19. and - conjunction
20. almost - adverb


SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT

1. were
2. have
3. was
4. was
5. makes
6. was
7. have
8. are
9. were
10. were
11. was
12. is
13. are
14. make
15. were
16. drive
17. need
18. swims
19. grows
20. meet


ERROR IDENTIFICATION AND CORRECTION


Jijah is admitted in the hospital because she has food-poisoning. Everyone is worried about her. The university gives her a week off because of her illness. Her best friend and her family think that the days off are for her own benefit but Jijah says that staying in hospital is too boring. All day long, she only sleeps or walks around the hospital. Since neither her friends nor her rabbit is around, she uses her free time to wander around the place. Luckily, the hospital serves good food. Jijah really loves to have bread and butter to kick start her day as well as fish and chips for lunch. The fish and chips is her favourite, besides a bowl of fresh fruit salad. Every day, her nurse, along with Doctor Berahim comes to check her blood pressure. Since Doctor Berahim graduates from Harvard, his English is very good. Unfortunately, Jijah’s Javanese accent is so strong and therefore, the doctor does not understand her whenever she speaks in English. Somebody who speaks good English has to help her.


ADJECTIVES

bolded words - adjectives
italicized words - related noun


There was a poor girl who lived alone with her mother, and they no longer had anything to eat. So the child went into the forest, and there an aged woman met her who was aware of her sorrow, and presented her with a pot, which when she said, cook, little pot, cook, would cook good, sweet porridge, and when she said, stop, little pot, it ceased to cook. The girl took the pot home to her mother, and now they were freed from their poverty and hunger, and ate sweet porridge as often as they chose. Once on a time when the girl had gone out, her mother said, cook, little pot, cook. And it did cook and she ate till she was satisfied, and then she wanted the pot to stop cooking, but did not know the word. So it went on cooking and the porridge rose over the edge, and still it cooked on until the kitchen and whole house were full, and then the next house, and then the whole street, just as if it wanted to satisfy the hunger of the whole world, and there was the greatest distress, but no one knew how to stop it. At last when only one house remained, the child came home and just said, stop, little pot, and it stopped and gave up cooking.