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Wangqh2696122 Posted 15 years ago
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This question is absolutely wrongly designed. Do you think so?
This question is from NMET 2005 in China:
My parents will move back into town in a year or ____.
A. later B. so
The given answer is B. A is correct, too. Do you think so?
My parents will move back into town in a year or ____.
A. later B. so
The given answer is B. A is correct, too. Do you think so?
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wangqh2696122 The given answer is B. A is correct, too. Do you think so?
- wangqh2696122 The given answer is B.
- A is correct, too.
- Do you think so?
- A is not correct.
- B is very colloquial and used all the time.
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wangqh2696122A is not correct.
The given answer is B. A is correct, too. Do you think so?
B is very colloquial and used all the time.
Here is a sentence using "later" but it has quite a different meaning.
My parents will move back into town later in the year.
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Hi,
B is much more idiomatic, and much less awkward.
You need to understand that such questions very often have more than one grammatically correct answer. You are expected to choose what the examiner thinks is the most natiural and most likely answer.
B is much more idiomatic, and much less awkward.
You need to understand that such questions very often have more than one grammatically correct answer. You are expected to choose what the examiner thinks is the most natiural and most likely answer.
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But if you google "in a year or later", you can find 29,800,000 hits. Try and see!
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I did - and got about 1,410,000,000 results (in 0.16 seconds). That doesn't change the fact that Alpha and Clive are correct and Google is not.
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wangqh2696122But if you google "in a year or later", you can find 29,800,000 hits. Try and see!I got these:
"in a year or later" 30 million
"in a year or so" 125 million
It seems unfair that both are right grammatically, but you need to find the answer that works best in the context.
It seems to me that the speaker would k
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