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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Rearrangement

Yokohama University, Japan made the following question in its entrance exam a couple of years ago:
Create a sentence by rearranging the following words:
(Jane / just / years / to / working / so / but / has / many / she / been / makes / hard / on / live).
with one suitable word.

A prep school (or exam publisher?) made the following answer (I heard):
Jane has been working many years so hard but she makes just enough to live on.

I think this more natural:
Jane has been working many years so hard but she makes enough just to live on.

What do you think?
Thank you.
  

Top answer

Yours is less natural than the publisher's sentence—the original has the right word order—but neither sounds particularly natural. It needs another word, at least, to sound natural to me: Jane has been working very hard for many years, but she makes just enough to live on.

— Mister Micawber

  • Yours is less natural than the publisher's sentence—the original has the right word order—but neither sounds particularly natural.
  • It needs another word, at least, to sound natural to me: Jane has been working very hard for many years, but she makes just enough to live on.
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Yours is less natural than the publisher's sentence—the original has the right word order—but neither sounds particularly natural.

It needs another word, at least, to sound natural to me:

Jane has been working very hard for many years, but she makes just enough to live on.
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Hi,

As an English teacher, I have to say that I consider this kind of question very unsuitable, even useless, for people who want to learn English.

Clive
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