by tony@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Tony Mountifield)
Oct 10, 2007 at 07:44 AM
In article <470bd885$0$13941$fa0fcedb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Blue Sow <janet.read@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 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.
In each question, there was in fact only one answer that was "natural"
English, as would be spoken by a native speaker.
However, several of the alternative answers were recognisable as
constructs
frequently used by non-native speakers who are thinking according to the
grammatical rules of their mother tongue.
Cheers
Tony
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