How can cat be sitting on a wall?

Kaysi · #1 (permalink) Tue Apr 25, 2006 11:49 am *How can cat be sitting on a wall?*

English Grammar Tests, Elementary Level

ESL/EFL Test #82 "Prepositons Test", question 8

The cat issitting ......... the wall.

(a) on
(b) over
(c) above
(d) underneath

English Grammar Tests, Elementary Level

ESL/EFL Test #82 "Prepositons Test", answer 8

The cat issitting on the wall.

Correct answer: (a) on

Your answer was: incorrect
The cat issitting underneath the wall.
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i think you are trying to say the cat is sitting on the wall, if that so, how can it be sitting on a wall?

Kaysi

Conchita · #2 (permalink) Tue Apr 25, 2006 12:18 pm *Off the wall*

There are different kinds of walls. Usually they are structures of brick/stone, etc. forming:

a) the side of a room or building
b) the boundary of a piece of land

A cat can sit on the second kind of wall. Or it can jump over it :wink: . It can also go to the wall, which means it is defeated -- maybe when it couldn't catch a mouse and all this sent/drove the cat up the wall (made it furious!).

I hope you won't find these explanations off the wall (strange) :) .

Rishi070 · #3 (permalink) Sun Oct 12, 2008 9:22 am *How can cat be sitting on a wall?*

hi,
why the answer (b)over is not right?
thanks.

Alan · #4 (permalink) Sun Oct 12, 2008 9:56 am *How can cat be sitting on a wall?*

Hi,

'Over' often suggests movement and doesn't really fit with the verb 'sit', which would indicate a fixed position. You can say: The cat jumped over the wall (from one side to the other) or: The tree is hanging over the wall (grows up one side and down the other side).

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Rishi070 · #5 (permalink) Sun Oct 12, 2008 10:10 am *How can cat be sitting on a wall?*

Hi Alan,
got it. thanks.

Sasooo · #6 (permalink) Sat Mar 28, 2009 15:19 pm *How can cat be sitting on a wall?*

Alan I can't get it ( sit on) please answer me

Shyone · #7 (permalink) Sat Mar 28, 2009 15:44 pm *How can cat be sitting on a wall?*

I sit on a sofa or a chair, the cat is sitting on top of (on) the wall
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Aliraf62 · #8 (permalink) Sat Dec 19, 2009 23:16 pm *How can cat be sitting on a wall?*

Hi

Are the words beneath, underneath, below and under correctly used in this sentence:

They buried the stolen money beneath/underneath/below the wall and sat under it(the wall) for hours under the moonlight regretting down below what they had done.

Thanks
Ali

Gatherer · #9 (permalink) Thu Aug 09, 2012 8:55 am *Re: How can cat be sitting on a wall?*

Will this sentence make any sense if you use about in the meaning near?

Beeesneees · #10 (permalink) Thu Aug 09, 2012 10:46 am *How can cat be sitting on a wall?*

No. That doesn't work at all.
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Beeesneees · #11 (permalink) Thu Aug 09, 2012 10:48 am *How can cat be sitting on a wall?*

Gatherer · #12 (permalink) Fri Aug 10, 2012 8:25 am *How can cat be sitting on a wall?*

Thank you for your help.

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