Blue Sow schrieb:
> 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.
>
Since the header suggests that this is a test appropriate for people
taking the Cambridge Certificate of Advanced English examination I would
suggest that this is the only possible interpretation.
Einde O'Callaghan
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