to find a table near the window

[Halo]

Business Idiom in English, Intermediate level

ESL/EFL Test #129 "Ways of greeting", question 6

Good evening to you all. Let me find you a ......... near the window.

(a) corner
(b) angle
(c) table
(d) part

Business Idiom in English, Intermediate level

ESL/EFL Test #129 "Ways of greeting", answer 6

Good evening to you all. Let me find you a table near the window.

Correct answer: (c) table

Your answer was: incorrect
Good evening to you all. Let me find you a angle near the window.
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I can't understand this sentence.
please explain me.
thanks.
Halo

[Nanucbe]

The context clearly indicates that they are greeted by a hospitality worker.
So 'table' is the correct answer.

[Yankee]

Hi Nanucbe

I think you misread the test. The correct answer is 'table'.
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[Nanucbe]

Hi! Yankee,

I first posted the reply and realized the mistake and edited that immediately. But it seems you have seen that in the meanwhile. I am surprised. Thanks. I have already edited and corrected the posting.
n

[Yankee]

Hi N

When I come to the forum, I generally look at the thread with the most recent post first. Last night, that was apparently this one.

I've suggested to the forum founders in the past that it might be better not to repeat the entire sentence with the wrong option in it when test-takers call up their test results. I find the current format a little confusing, and also think it would be better not to present erroneous sentences in the answer section since test-takers seem to frequently read these as correct sentences.

I'm just a lowly English teacher though. What do I know.
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[Nanucbe]

Hi!Yankee,
Please, don't use the word 'lowly.' That is not proper. You are a good teacher who has the spirit of inquiring into things to know. I myself would have done the same.
As you said I thought that the post owner was complaining against the answer given to him. I have seen some such things occur on various occasions. Particularly in language many answers are possible unlike mathematics.
Thanks,
n

[Alan]

Hi Halo,

I hope you understand that the answer is 'table' after the irrelevant discussion above. The person speaking is not a 'hospitality worker' whatever that is, but a waiter or hotel manager who is showing his guests where they can sit and he is looking for a 'free' (unoccupied) table near the window so that the guests will have a pleasant view.

Alan
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[Yankee]

[Yankee]

Hi Halo

Another reason that the word 'angle' can't possibly be correct is the presence of the article 'a' in the sentence. You can only say 'an angle' (not 'a angle').
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[Alan]

Hi,