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Tmnt53 Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Multiple choice question

Choose the sentence having the closest meaning to "Having done the test well, Tom hoped to be given a good mark"
A. Having been done the test well, Tom hoped to be given a good mark
B. Having hoped to be given a good mark, Tom had done the test well.
C. Having the test done well, Tom hoped to be given a good mark.
D. Tom hoped to be given a good mark as he had done the test well.
I'm confused between C and D. Please help. Thanks in advance.
  

Top answer

Answer D is the best, but it doesn’t sound natural to me. I don’t do tests well; I do well on them.

— RandomGuy

  • Answer D is the best, but it doesn’t sound natural to me.
  • I don’t do tests well; I do well on them.
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Answer D is the best, but it doesn’t sound natural to me. I don’t do tests well; I do well on them.
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"do a test" is British English (http://oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/dictionary/test).
Tell me what's wrong with C please.
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tmnt53Choose the sentence having the closest meaning to "Having done the test well, Tom hoped to be given a good mark"
A. Having been done the test well, Tom hoped to be given a good mark. a bad sentence
B. Having hoped to be given a good mark, Tom had done the test well. bad sentence
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tmnt53C. Having the test done well,
This should be 'having done the test well'. The words are in the wrong order.

CJ
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Doesn’t do a test mean take a test? I wouldn’t take a test well, either. Emotion: tongue tied
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Aspara GusDoesn’t do a test mean take a test? I wouldn’t take a test well, either.
Personally, I'm just answering "in the spirit of the question", concentrating on why C is wrong. I'll leave it to others to figure out if there is some variety of English in which that specific wording is legitimate.

CJ
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I would say that "Having done the test well", although somewhat unusual, means that the person feels
that (s)he did a good job answering the questions.
And I think that sometimes unusual wording can still have a clear meaning.
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Thanks for all your help. I've just found out why C is not correct. According to the Oxford dictionary (http://oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/dictionary/have), to have something done means to cause something to be done by someone else. I thought it could be used when you cause something t
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