Saturday, December 08, 2007
JLPT Exam Question #1
Today we see the first of a new feature in the blog and one I want to do once a week at least, maybe more depending on time. The idea is to go through real JLPT questions and analyze them. As I found out during revision, knowing the grammar is one thing, but to answer questions on it's usage is quite another. Hopefully, a weekly question or two will get my mind into the 'JLPT zone'...
Today's example is from 2006, question 34 of the ３級読解文法 to be precise. I picked this question as I got it wrong during my revision, so let's see if I can analyze it. First, the question:
先生がなかなか来ないので、学生がさわぎ＿＿＿＿。
- つづいた
- はじまった
- おわった
- だした
To see the answer and my reasoning, click and drag your mouse over the area between the brackets!
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The answer is option 4.
On the face of it, the grammatical point is quite straight-forward. I've covered the use of はじめる, おわる, だす and つづける after a verb in base 2 and seen that they mean to start, finish, continue and suddenly start some action respectively.
The question itself also seems pretty straight-forward: in Jenglish we get [teacher] [by no means] [come] [because], [students] [make noise/kick up a fuss], or more naturally, Because the teacher hadn't come, the students _____ kicked up a fuss.
My first reaction, now I've read up on the grammar, is to ignore (1) and (2). All my research suggests that, in compound verbs, you use はじめる and not はじまる. Likewise it's つづける and not つづく. (3) also seems wrong, if not grammatically then semantically. So, by process of elimination, the answer is 4.
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またね・・・
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Long long long time no see, Dave!
I pretty much agree with your idea, actually, I've been interested in JLPT questions.
Ok...I think it's tricky because (1), (2) and (4) can be semantically the right answer, so you have to make a choice grammatically. If (2) was はじめた, it'd be the answer, too.
Well then, I'll give you a similar question.(^.^)
*I eliminate はじまった because it's not fit as an alternative here, I think.
つづいた
おわった
だした
デイブは５時間かけて、やっと家中の壁にペンキを塗り＿＿＿＿。
月曜日から１週間、ずっと雨が降り＿＿＿＿。
春が来て、桜の花が咲き＿＿＿＿。
Enjoy!
I pretty much agree with your idea, actually, I've been interested in JLPT questions.
Ok...I think it's tricky because (1), (2) and (4) can be semantically the right answer, so you have to make a choice grammatically. If (2) was はじめた, it'd be the answer, too.
Well then, I'll give you a similar question.(^.^)
*I eliminate はじまった because it's not fit as an alternative here, I think.
つづいた
おわった
だした
デイブは５時間かけて、やっと家中の壁にペンキを塗り＿＿＿＿。
月曜日から１週間、ずっと雨が降り＿＿＿＿。
春が来て、桜の花が咲き＿＿＿＿。
Enjoy!
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: 4:42 pm
Ooooh, sneaky. I'll give it a go :-)
デイブは５時間かけて、やっと家中の壁にペンキを塗り終わった。
月曜日から１週間、ずっと雨が降りつづいた。
春が来て、桜の花が咲きだした。
I hope that's right!!
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デイブは５時間かけて、やっと家中の壁にペンキを塗り終わった。
月曜日から１週間、ずっと雨が降りつづいた。
春が来て、桜の花が咲きだした。
I hope that's right!!
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