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Cobra teal 993 Posted 7 years ago
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Nothing left or None left implies mean?
She got up to get some sleeping pills but found there was _____left at home. A. nothing ;B. nobody C. something D. none
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Tricky question. A - nothing. but found there was nothing left at home.
- Tricky question.
- A - nothing.
- but found there was nothing left at home.
- Except that sentence sounds strange.
- I think it's possible there is a mistake in the test question, or it's an old test.
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Tricky question. A - nothing.
...but found there was nothing left at home.
Except that sentence sounds strange.
I think it's possible there is a mistake in the test question, or it's an old test. D - none would be correct with a plural verb; sleeping pills is plural, so it should have: ....there were __none__ left at home.
(instead of there was__ left at home)
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