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#2 (permalink) Thu May 01, 2014 20:59 pm Re: Why is this wrong? |
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Hip2thabone wrote: | As I speak fluently in British English, |
This statement indicates that you are not as fluent as you think!
However, the reason that has not been accepted is due to the inadequacies of an online test where the computer is only able to accept the exact answer which has been put into the system. _________________ "Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened."
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Beeesneees Language Coach

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#3 (permalink) Fri May 02, 2014 9:57 am Why is this wrong? |
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Hi Hip2thabone,
As you are referring to a test that I wrote based on one of my stories, I would like to explain the use of 'turning' in the sentence you have quoted. 'Turn' as a noun is mainly used to describe a movement but in the sentence it isn't a movement that is indicated but one road leading off from another. _________________ English as a Second Language You can read my ESL story Present Simple |
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Alan Co-founder

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#4 (permalink) Fri May 02, 2014 10:43 am Why is this wrong? |
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Perhaps I should have made it clearer that both 'turning' and 'turn' are correct.
The difference indicated by Alan is a predominantly BrE distinction. Turn (noun) - of road/vehicle 3 (especially North American English) (British English also 'turning') a place where a road leads away from the one you are travelling on. http://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/turn_2
The fact remains that 'turn' to indicate one road leading off from another is acceptable, and I presume that anyone marking the question manually rather than by computer would accept both answers. The question asked in the subject line of this thread is "Why is this wrong?" The answer is "Because only one variation could be inputted into the computer database, so another variation, although correct, was not accepted because of the machine's limitations." _________________ "Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened."
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