#1 (permalink) Thu Jan 27, 2005 12:03 pm Still vs. quiet |
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Test No. incompl/inter-83 "Save Our Animals (3)", question 6
and people who had been running about pell mell (in confusion) were now standing ......... and listening to the speeches.
(a) quiet (b) still (c) upright (d) quite
Test No. incompl/inter-83 "Save Our Animals (3)", answer 6
and people who had been running about pell mell (in confusion) were now standing still and listening to the speeches.
Correct answer: (b) still
Your answer was: incorrect and people who had been running about pell mell (in confusion) were now standing quiet and listening to the speeches. _________________________
Hello,
I guess the clue that enables one to choose between "quiet" and "still" is the succession of adverbs "pell-mell", "higgedly-piggedly", "harum-scarum", which indicates movement rather than noise? And the verb "to stand". Still, the sentence woulb be correct with "quiet", both grammatically and semantically, wouldn't it? |
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Helen Guest
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