Lesson 19 Practice Quiz Answers

1. _____ アルバイトの学生です。

• きのう着きました

  Sorry! A sentence modifier must be in direct style. A possible sentence is:
  このう着いたアルバイトの学生です。

• 目が大きいの

  Sorry! You must delete の for this to work:
  目が大きいアルバイトの学生です。

• 仕事をてつだってくれた

  Right!

  "(It is) a part-time student who helped me with the job."

2. 子どもがねた _____ 行きました。

• から

  Right!

  "Because the child fell asleep, I went."

• 前に

  Sorry! The sentence before 前に must be imperfective even if the described event occurred in the past.

• あとで

  Right!

  "After the child fell asleep, I went."

• ので

  Right!

  "Because the child fell asleep, I went."

3. このけいさんき、直して _____ 。

• から

  "After I fix this calculator..."

• みて

  "Try to fix this calculator."

• 時はいつですか

  Sorry! To modify 時, 直して must be changed to 直した:
  このけ いさんき、直した時はいつですか。

• に行ってください

  Sorry! For this construction you must use the Verb-stem + に行く pattern:
  このけいさんき、直しに行ってください。

• しまいましたか

  "Did you finish fixing this calculator?"

4. この手紙を書いた _____ 。

• は、だれかわからない

  Sorry! The anticipatory の must appear before the particle in this sentence. A correct version would be:
  この手紙を書いたのは、だれかわからない

• の人と話してください

  Sorry! 人 is modified by the preceeding sentence. A の cannot appear between the setence modifier and the modified nominal.

• のは、先週だったと思う

  "I think it was last week that I wrote this letter."

• のですか

  "Is it that you wrote this letter?"

  What is this の ? It is the extended predicate の , for which you can also substitute ん .

• の？

  "Is it that you wrote this letter?"

  This の is an extended predicate. Remember that when the extended predicate is placed at the end of a sentence, ん substitution does not take place.

• だよ

  Sorry! だ cannot follow verbals or adjectivals. However, 書いたん だよ would be ok.

5. 田中さん _____ あずかったにもつ

• が

  "The luggage Tanaka accepted (to keep temporarily)"

  In a sentence modifier, the doer of the action verbal in the sentence modifier is marked by either が or の.

• の

  "The luggage Tanaka accepted (to keep temporarily)"

  In a sentence modifier, the doer of the action verbal in the sentence modifier is marked by either が or の.

• を

  Sorry! While not grammatically impossible, this is a very strange sentence -- it would, literally, mean "the luggage which accepted Tanaka."

• から

  "The luggage I accepted (to keep temporarily) from Tanaka"

  Note that, like かりる, あずかる can follow から with a similar meaning:

  田中さんからあずかる   -- "I accpeted (it) from Tanaka (to keep temporarily)"
  田中さんにかりる -- "I borrowed it from Tanaka"
  

  But, note that:

  田中さんにあずかる  --  "I gave it to Tanaka (to keep temporarily)"
  田中さんにかりる --  "I borrowed from Tanaka "
  

6. コンピューター _____ 入れたかばん

が

Sorry! While not grammatically impossible, this sentence would not make much sense: "The bag in which the computer put something"

を

"The bag in which I put the computer"

の

Sorry! の cannot go here. Remember, を cannot be replaced by の.

に

Sorry! While not grammatically impossible, this results in the strange sentence: "The bag which was inserted into the computer"

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