John Briggs wrote:
> Blue Sow wrote:
>> John Briggs wrote:
>>> Blue Sow wrote:
>>>> John Briggs wrote:
>>>>> Blue Sow wrote:
>>>>>> EnglishPeter wrote:
>>>>>>> I made this small test for you:
>>>>>>> I will try to put up more tests on the page later taday at
>>>>>>> http://plainenglish.alldiscussion.net
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Try designing them so that only one of the multiple choice answers
>>>>>> can be correct.
>>>>> It depends what you mean by "correct".
>>>> One presumes, when taking a test in which multiple choice answers
>>>> are provided, that some answers are deemed to be correct and others
>>>> incorrect. Otherwise, the tester will not be able to determine if
>>>> the participant has passed or failed the test. If the test does not
>>>> measure anything, why do it?
>>>> That, essentially, is what is meant by 'correct' in the context of
>>>> the topic of this thread.
>>>>
>>>> Funnily enough, that is what I meant by 'correct' too, given the
>>>> context. What, I wonder, did you think that I might mean?
>>> Which questions do you think have more than one 'correct' answer? That
>>> could throw some light on what you might mean by 'correct'.
>> Most of them could, in spoken English, have made use of more than one
>> of the possible answers and one of them could have used all of the
>> possible answers and still been recognisable English usage.
>
> That is not 'correct' :-)
No. The answer that obtains the tick is correct (no quotes needed).
> [The questioner is looking for idiomatic usage which is grammatically
> correct]
If you think so.
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Blue Sow
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